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This is a Facebook community garage sale site where you’re supposed to sell/buy household items. It’s also a good place to solicit ice cream cake information in this, an age without Google or other ice cream cake search resources. Please note that there are 24 comments. I only have one like on a t-ball set I posted five months ago. It remains to be seen what the problem is with Baskin Robbins ice cream cakes. A little too cliché perhaps? This is quite probable, as outside-the-box desserts are a staple of this garage sale site which, you might recall, once offered our insatiable community some mouthwatering  lactation cookies . As for Safeway ice cream cakes? No. Hell to the no. Don’t even. Don’t. Anything involving “Safeway” and “cake,” just … no. (For the record, Safeway has been running a dang Monopoly game for seemingly the past SIX MONTHS that will not come to its merciful end. I bought bananas the other day and they tried to hand me like 18 Monopoly tickets at t...

Classic card of the week

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Wilson Alvarez, 1996 Topps Here is a Wilson Alvarez baseball card. Like you, I wonder: Did this professional baseball player play baseball as an adolescent? Wilson pitched for a Venezuelan entry in the 1982 Little League World Series, an event that also included a Tampa, FL, team whose star was Gary Sheffield. This is the most interesting thing I have ever heard about in my entire life. Are you trying to tell me, card, that Wilson Alvarez played baseball in an event that also featured another, different baseball player? I mean, what are the odds? Furthermore, what are the chances that the other player would be none other than Gary Sheffield? Is there no end to the link between Wilson Alvarez and Gary Sheffield? Some things are just… destiny . Earlier that year, he’d fanned 21 in a game! Who? Gary Sheffield or Wilson Alvarez? Either way, I enjoy the emphatic exclamation point as it pertains to what somebody did when they were 12-years old. I don’t like to brag, but I once accumulated 3...