2015 TOPPS DANIEL MURPHY A few weeks back I bowed out of an online auction for this card when the price hit $10. By the time the virtual hammer fell, the price stood at just over $25 with shipping. So…
2015 TOPPS DILSON HERRERA Spring Training is just around the corner– look beyond that looming snowbank, northeasterners– so last week Topps released its first series of 2015 baseball cards. Your intrepid reporter dropped $50 on a box, and I’m here…
While writing the Card of the Week column has of course made me independently wealthy, your author is always dreaming up new money-making schemes. And this one is gold. Gold, I tell you! Just in time for Valentine’s Day, I…
Happy Jack.
1966 TOPPS WES WESTRUM My impressions of the 1960s? Well, not to wax all “We Didn’t Start the Fire” here, but to me it’s a blur of JFK, MLK, RFK, Nixon, Vietnam, Woodstock, men on the moon, and Miracle Mets.…
1998 TOPPS TEK MIKE PIAZZA Travel back with us if you will to the days of pre-millennial anxiety, when Y2K fears had the world convinced that computer systems would crash, underwear bands would snap, and society would crumble to dust…
Push it real good.
1982 TOPPS BLACKLESS TOM HAUSMAN Printing errors are a funny thing. Due to sketchy quality control and inattentive vendors, printing variations are commonplace on Topps baseball cards from the inception of the brand through at least the early ’90s. It’s…
Oh! Darling
Put me in, coach…
1974 TOPPS FACTORY SET Regular readers of this site will be forgiven if they’ve developed an impression that Card of the Week is obsessed with boxes. Alas, it is true, and for this we make no apologies… The specimen under…
