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Changes the Card Companies Need to Make for the Greater Good
Aug 21st
By Alex Kupka aka mnlax13
Like many collectors on this site, I am quite fed up with the card companies and many aspects of their products. To start off if I could change things about companies the first thing that I get them to do is to start inserting more decoys. Many people view pack searchers as a cardinal sin in the hobby. They’re looked down upon and many believe that people that commit this act are ruining the future of collecting for our youth. I have been to big box stores and have seen people searching for some relic or More >
60 Years of Topps Baseball Countdown – #36: 2002 Topps
Aug 12th
by Drew Pelto, AKA *censored*
2002 is another 2000’s year I’m not super excessively familiar with. Again, I was a hockey guy first and foremost through those years. Almost strictly hockey, but still checked out some baseball here and there. Plus, it was my senior year of high school going into my first year of college. And the Indians were dismantling their 90’s dynasty. And I was in a bowling league, and traveling a lot. So baseball cards weren’t exactly on my mind in a major way.
Pretty nifty design, really.Which is kind of a shame really. Looking back, I actually More >
60 Years of Topps Baseball Countdown – #37: 1984 Topps
Aug 11th
by Drew Pelto, AKA *censored*
You’d think I would like this set more than I do. I was born in 1984, and the Tigers won the World Series that year– I’m an Indians fan, but most of my family is from Michigan. And I picked up a box of 800 random 1984 Topps cards for $7 at a card store in Boston a few years ago (eight years actually; geez, it doesn‘t seem like it was that long ago). I loved that store; Wichita Falls has one card store and it just doesn’t have much in it. That one in Boston More >
60 Years of Topps Baseball Countdown – #38: 2008 Topps
Aug 6th
By Drew Pelto, AKA *censored*
Back in May, I expressed my disdain for the 2007 Topps set. Fortunately, 2008 helped to bounce Topps back in my books, albeit only slightly. I think it’s one of the better efforts of the Texas era of my life (2006 to the present), but in the grand scheme of things, it’s still a lackluster set.
It would be a much more solid set if it wasn’t for two things: the stupid Giuliani-Red Sox error card and fake player Kazuo Uzuki getting a card. The Jeter-Mantle-Bush “error” in 2007 was bad enough. It was compounded with a More >
60 Years of Topps Baseball Countdown – #39: 1991 Topps
Jul 30th
By Drew Pelto, AKA *censored*
Back at set #58, I mentioned how bad 1990 was in the card world. Sadly, 1991 was probably worse. The 1991 Topps set was the saving grace in a world of bright blinding yellow Fleer cards and the first ever Upper Deck set to get a rating of “meh” on a scale of puke to ZOMG AWESOME! Night Owl Cards did a comparison of 1990 and 1991 baseball cards as a whole and 1991 came out slightly better.
And I agree, at least partially because of Bowman, Score, and this 1991 Topps set. Let’s be honest: Topps More >
60 Years of Topps Baseball Countdown – #40: 1977 Topps
Jul 27th
By Drew Pelto, AKA *censored*
Seeing as I’ve been a massive slacker the last few weeks, I might see if I can post a bunch of these all in a row to get caught up a bit. I was hoping to be in the lower 30′s by now instead of only to 40. Oh well.
Now that we’re out of the bottom 20, the countdown is getting into sets I actually kind of like. Key words: kind of. They’re not my favorites by any stretch, but they aren’t going to make me projectile vomit when I see them either.
1977 was kind of More >
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