As a Dodgers fan I'm a biased observer, of course. So take the following with a grain of salt.
This an absolute fracking joke of a "punishment". How the hell do the Astros get to keep their rings and WS trophy? I'm not saying the Dodgers should get it, but the Astros should absolutely vacate...
Danny, I'll bet. Being a Dodgers collector is bad enough. I can't imagine collecting the Yankees.
I was fully expecting the Wheat to be pretty pricey. I was pleasantly surprised, to say the least, at what I landed it for.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/reports-dodgers-reds-swing-blockbuster-trade-involving-puig-kemp/
Bob Nightengale: The Dodgers will receive Homer Bailey, pitcher Josiah Gray and infielder Jeter Downs.
Perhaps this move is the precursor to a Bryce Harper signing?
2006 Topps Finest Jeff Kent gold xfractor, numbered to /10
and
2006 Topps Allen & Ginter Nomar Garciaparra no-number mini, printed to /50
Both will finish up my team runs for those products.
Dunno if SI still does their "Sign of the Apocalypse" column, but this would be perfect for it. Why the hell people would pay $20 for a card with a couple of guys who murdered their parents on it boggles my mind. WTF is the matter with people?
So check this out.
Last Tuesday brought that terrific White Whale mailday. I shared my exciting pickup on five different message board, including Blowout. A guy over there says that TradingCardDB shows a different number of available Butler cards than Beckett does, so I spent a chunk of...
A guy over on CU said this should open the door for Vada Pinson now.
To me, this is exactly why letting guys like Baines, Trammell, Whitaker and others in is such a bad thing. Pinson, like the aforementioned three players, was very good. Transcendent? Not. Even. Close.
Baines, in the five...
Appreciate the offer. If it was one of the few (if even that many) that made it into a PSA holder I’d probably be interested. I have a couple of raw ones for now.
“Harold Baines was on the ballot as recently as 2011 and received 4.8% of the vote. It was his fifth straight year with a vote total below 10%. Why, just seven years later, do 16 people get to decide that he's now a Hall of Famer when 95.2% of the voters didn't think he was one?“
- Aaron...
Crap. I was hoping you guys were on to something, but it looks like it's not a Pepsi promo set. 8 of the 15 players in the pic that Brad posted aren't in the checklist that Beckett has linked to the card I'm looking for. According to Beckett, it's a 25-card set, but no description of any kind is...
Your description of Clough reminds me of Pete "The King" Franklin, who was one of the pioneers of sports talk radio. I used to listen to him on San Francisco's KNBR. Similar to Clough, you knew you had arrived when you were such an idiot that he had to "flush" you (cue flushing toilet sound effect).
These three have driven me crazy for a long, long time. Yesterday I had finally decided to cross all three of them from my list and forget I was ever looking for them. This is how Beckett has them listed:
1995 Mets Colla 9
1992 Dodgers Smokey 4292
2005 Arizona Diamondbacks team issue 2
I was...
Pretty sure 1998 Inside had gold cans, but not 1997.
Since I've got your attention, have you had experience with Beckett's player checklist having cards/sets on it that simply don't exist? There are two Butler cards they have listed that I simply cannot find any evidence of.
eta: that can...
Some of you guys might remember that I'm a player collector, too. Brett Butler is one of my favorite modern players, and somehow I got on this quest to collect every card any company has ever issued of him. Beckett has 534 unique Butler cards catalogued - I've got 521 of them, plus several...