Neon Green

I'm sorry to report that the Seahawks' green jerseys are going away permanently. I sure hope we get some awesome neon green relics next year though!

Show and Tell #29: The Captain To The Rescue

Canadian postage...that can only mean one thing. A package from:

CAPTAIN CANUCK!


CC sent me a bunch of Topps Mayo '08 from my Needs List. Now I just need a big card show and a dealer ready to make a deal on some junk Mayo to finish the set.

#248 Claude Monet

#115 Justin McCareins
#155 Brian Dawkins
#173 Erik Ainge
#69 Harry Douglas
#88 Deion Branch
#102 Ike Hilliard
#19 Troy Williamson
#54 Adrian Arrington



The Captain also sent two packs of unopened wax that I'll highlight over on A Pack To Be Named Later.

Thanks Brian!

I'm Here To Help, Dayf

Dear Dayf,

I was on Facebook earlier today and they let me know you were having trouble finding your friends.


I'm here to help, Dayf. You just let me know when you're free and I will get some flashlights and we'll try to track them down.

Sincerely,

Matt F.

I Was Catching Up On My Shows...

I was catching up on my shows and watching the new Bill Engvall special Aged and Confused when what should my wondering eyes should appear but...


--David from Indians Baseball Cards in the crowd...I'll leave you to guess which one he is!

I ran over to Indians Baseball to see if he knew he was famous and he had seen it too...Congrats --David!

Cardboard Recycling

There is recycling a design and then there's recycling a design.

Team 2000

There's a lot of talk about what the greatest insert set is and I'm throwing the Team 2000 inserts from the 1992 Pinnacle set into the ring.

The great nature of these inserts is that I'm reviewing them 17 years after the set came out so we can see how accurate they were in predicting the players of the future. I'm mainly highlighting some of the players that they got right in this post and as I get closer to finishing the set we will see some players that barely made it out of the 1992 season.

Upper Deck could do a nice Team 2020 for their 2010 base set and that would get me interested in Upper Deck cards again.

#8 Ivan Rodriguez


#32 Greg Maddux


#33 Andujar Cedeno


#37 Jim Thome


#49 Ramon Martinez


#54 Mo Vaughn


#58 Tom Gordon


#65 John Olerud


#68 Luis Gonzalez

Fire Joe Morgan

1984 Fun Foods Pin #74

Page 137

Collectors, please turn our scriptures to page 137:


I've been planning out a long term project of getting a copy of every card listed in TGABCF,T&BGB but it is harder than you might think. There is no index of the cards listed and the little stories that go along with each card sometimes offer no insight to the card that is pictured.

But I've been going through page by page noting the cards featured and have recently completed page 137:


1962 Topps #349 Paul Foytack


1961 Topps #345 Jim Piersall

Reconsidering '08 Stadium Club

Nearly everyone has commented on the excellent photography of the 2009 Topps set but the real quality sea change happened earlier in the 2008 Stadium Club set. Now, I know Topps messed up the set with the autographed rookie cards that don't have a corresponding base cards and the insanely limited and confusing parallel cards but the photography alone on the base cards makes this set a winner in my book.

#80 Ryan Braun


#5 Russ Martin


#82 Manny Ramirez


#62 Joba Chamberlain


#16 Jake Peavy


Also, without a doubt my favorite autographs from 2008 are the Beam Team autos. If you haven't actually seen one of these in person they are semi-transparent and look exactly like stained glass.

Felix Pie Beam Team Autograph