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We're headed to the toy store today for an oddball selection of cards.

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1988 Kay-Bee #25 Cal Ripken (This is from a 33-card boxed set produced by Topps exclusively for Kay-Bee Toy Stores.)
1989 Toys'R'Us Rookies #28 Gary Sheffield (Here's Gary Sheffield before he had the gold caps on his front teeth removed. This set was also produced by Topps and was released as a 33-card boxed set through Toys 'R' Us Stores.)
1989 STC Box Cut #NNO Don Mattingly (This card was never meant to be a card. I had arrived at my weightlifting partner's house to lift and as I walked through his garage, I saw a box on top of his trash can with this picture of Don Mattingly on it. It was a box for a whiffle ball set produced by a Japanese company called STC Toys. It is the size of a standard baseball card and is made of soft plastic with a blank cardboard back. I figured I probably would have the only one of these but I have since seen one on eBay.) 

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1998 Protalk Talking Cards #5 Ken Griffey Jr./Grand slam homer (This card contains a small battery so that when you press the button, you can hear about 45 seconds of actual highlights being played.)
1998 Topps Etch-A-Sketch #ES2 Barry Bonds (I was pretty good with the Etch-A-Sketch as a kid. I could make some cool landscapes and the like until my younger brother would come along and slap it out of my hand and send it skidding across the floor. This insert set featured actual drawings by artist George Vlosich III done on his Etch-A-Sketch.)
1999 Fleer Tradition All-Star Kite Card #3 Ken Griffey Jr. (Unrecognized by Beckett, this card looks identical to the 1999 Fleer Tradition Ken Griffey Jr. card with the only notable difference being that it is numbered 3 of 6. Thanks to magicpapa for his help in identifying this card as being one that came with an All-Star kite.)

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1999 Hasbro Starting Lineup Cards #10 Nomar Garciaparra (Famous toymaker, Hasbro issued this card with one of their Starting Lineup dolls back 1999.)
2000 Fanatics Talking Baseball #25 Mark McGwire (Like the Protalk Talking cards, this card also contains a battery and plays an audio highlight from McGwire's 500th home run. This card was distributed by Fanatics Toys and came with a stand-up of Big Mac that stands about a foot tall.)
2001 Donruss Class of 2001 BobbleHead Cards #15 Roger Clemens (Serial numbered to 2000, this card was included with a bobblehead doll produced by Donruss.)