1. Enjoy what I already have instead of craving what I don't.
2. Sell cards that don't fit in my collection goals. I mainly collect complete sets in binders, autographs, old Yankees and I have a few small player collections. All of the thousands of random star cards and commons I've...
I agree with all of that. Nice idea and the homage to 1963, 1983 and 2003 is great, but the bottom is too busy, the team name is cut off and the logo is too big and distracting. At least it’s not boring like most Topps designs of the past ten years.
Hershiser has long been a great signer through the mail, at least up until a few years ago when I last got him. Not sure if he still signs for free, but it's worth a try.
The MLB also stopped testing for steroids for the first time in almost 20 years because the PED agreement expired in December:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33238595/major-league-baseball-stops-testing-players-steroids-nearly-20-years-report-says
The Players Association turning down MLB's request for third party mediation isn't good. Hopefully this gets fixed fast because I'm already going through baseball withdrawal.
And did you mean the elephant in the room in your title? I never heard the phrase the monkey in the room.
I agree. I don't trust that a good percentage of "game used" swatches or bat pieces are even authentic, and I don't mean altered GU cards. There have been too many mistakes by card companies putting wrong swatches on cards, and questionable authentication services they bought pieces from. It's...
I agree it looks like Bowman. Kind of plain too. But better than this year's ugly design.
I miss how Topps used to be bold with their designs. Everything these past few years look like they were designed by a sterile computerized random generator.
It was Liberate Baltimore.
Here's a post he made on FCB:
https://www.freedomcardboard.com/forum/threads/huggins-scott-auctions-job-opening-assistant-auction-coordinator.132580/