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2012 Topps Series 1 Insert Review: Gold Standard
I am going to attempt to collect a master set of 2012 Topps flagship product. I am not sure what that really means, but to me for this project I will not seek out all parallels. Just base cards and all...
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2012 Topps Series 1 Insert Review: Golden Moments
Topps takes a down swing here with this insert design. I think the use of the picture on the right still works, but the design elements on the left look weak. The golden home-plate is kind of lame with...
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2012 Topps Series 1 Insert Review: Classic Walk-off's
I am going to spare few words for these horrible looking cards. The best part is the blurred out section in the bottom right showing the team celebrations. When my favorite thing about a card is the...
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2012 Topps Series 1 Insert Review: Golden Greats
While this certainly isn't my favorite design of the series, the subject matter of some of the cards saves it for me. Speaking strictly to the design, once again the weird brown-orangey border looks...
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My First Real Trade
I am very excited.I have finally gotten the chance to complete a real trade. One where I actually sent a card, through the mail, to a mate that sent me one.This is the card I sent:Adam from...
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2012 Topps Series 1 Insert Review: Gold Futures
This is my favorite so far reviewed, and 2nd favorite overall. Just a super clean card. The black border lends the card a classy feel next to the gold detailing. I wish the logos weren't so large, and...
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2012 Topps Series 1 Insert Review: Retired Rings
I love these cards. While I choose not to include them as my favorite, since they are just sooo special, they deserve the respect their design deserves.I actually like this fake relic, a manufactured...
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A Patch from Potch: The Cardinal Side of Things
I finally did it . . . a real trade. Look out world, Chef's slingin' cards.Work has been busy with the changing of the seasons. Spring has come, ramps are on the pork belly, and asparagus is juicy as...
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Cards of Randomness #1
I have decided that this will be the most prolific of my themes on this site for awhile. As I catalog the random piles of cards that I get, I will do a little research into them, and share the...
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Cards of Randomness #2
This guy had a career spanning 18 years (although admittedly his last year in 1988 he only had one at bat for the Yankee's and struck out). Not too shabby. Elected to the All-Star game one time in...
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Cards of Randomness #3
This guys name was the "Cobra", given to him during his rookie year for the way his bat struck. Wish I had a nickname like that.Coolest fact about him is that he was the first ever National League DH...
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Where's The Wood?
Putting away some of my 2012 Topps base cards I came across another card that made me beg the question: "Where's the wood?"The card below is from 1987 Topps, a 25th anniversary reprise of the 1962...
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My First 3rd
I have never really understood the Jr. or III convention of naming children. How confusing must it have been at the Smalley house when "Roy" was called, and three generations of Smalley men turn...
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The Sorting of 5000
I am back!!! I'm not going to buy any new cards . . . alright maybe a few, but no seriously. I'm going to catalog this giant, semi-cool ebay purchase. I got 5000 cards. That's alot to sort, and file...
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The sorting of 5000: 1992 Topps
#14 Wes Chamberlain, not alot to say about him. I grew up around the corner from one of his teammates, Phil Bradley. For some reason he had a home in Columbia, Mo. None the less Wes had six mediocre...
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The Sorting of 5000: 1992 Topps
Continuing along. A couple of nice ones collated.This is the last year for the veteran catcher. In what was a rather lackluster 18 year big league care he still managed to win the big one with the...
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The Sorting of 5000: 1992 Topps
Currently a home mortgage specialist in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Chris had a short 6 years playing in the big leagues. The back of the card says he is 5-0 in games attended by his Mother. Here's...
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The Sorting of 5000: 1992 Topps
This round has some good ones. Just sitting here typing in the cold of Chicago waiting for my wife to get off work so we can meet at the local watering hole. As I wait I shall educate myself on some of...
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The Sorting of 5000: 1992 Topps
Man oh Man,As I continue to look at these players from my sophomore year of high school I recall those days with nostalgia, and wistfulness. Both of those vices reside in the realm of age, never...
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Article 5
I know, I know.I’ve been absent for four years.My cards survived the purchase of a house, and the creation of a down-stairs, “man room”. The room for all of my stuff. The kind of stuff that only I’m...
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Article 4
Hello!Sitting here, filing and sorting cards, late at night on a Friday. Googling players I have never heard of, googling those I have. How did anybody know who anyone was before the Google?Plucked a...
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It's 80's Night!!!
That's right. It's 80's night. Put on the New Wave music, perhaps Duran Duran, maybe some Depeche Mode, or if you feel like dancing some New Order.That's my choice - New Order for the win.Couple of...
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Hmmm . . . do I like it?
I couldn't resist. I needed toilet paper from Walgreens. And let me tell you, I cannot for the life of me figure out why toilet paper is not on the Maslow's heirarchy of needs. Am I alone in launching...
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Hidden Grace
Still going through that box of 5000 cards I bought online. Fun. Weird. Filled with commons and strange runs of consecutive cards every now and then. And, being honest about it, the cataloging and...
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A Hall Of Famer and Someone Else
It is rare in the box of 5000 that i run across cards of guys I recognize more than just a name. Sure there are the Andres Gallaraga's, the Ozzie Canseco's . . . yeah, that one. There just are not that...
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