2014 TOPPS MINI DIE-CUT MATT HARVEY Episode 7F16 of The Simpsons is a classic entry from 1991 named “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”– a title cribbed from Preston Sturges’ 1941 comedy Sullivan’s Travels, and later appropriated by the Coen brothers for their Depression-era riff on Homer’s “Odyssey.” In the episode, Homer (the Springfieldian one, not the ancient Greek) discovers through a cascading series of events that he has a long-lost half-brother. Herb Powell (voiced by…
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Card of the Week’s Mystery Met maven has been recovering from trivia Tommy John, and after a winter of long tossing on the back fields, he’s ready to take the mound again. So here’s the pitch: identify this Met with the sad and soulful spring-training eyes, and you’ll win a 2014 Topps Matt Harvey yellow variation. The contest ends on April 1 (no fooling)– good luck!
2013 TOPPS ARCHIVES DWIGHT GOODEN No one likes to be around someone out of control yet at a distance there’s almost something poetic about someone or something obliterating the boundaries of what’s possible. In the Jefferson Airplane song Wild Times, there’s a lyric that goes: “I’m doing things that haven’t got a name yet.” How very psychedelic. Without a doubt, the equivalent in the baseball card industry was the 1972 Topps set. It marked the…
So you won’t find Ed Bouchee’s name in any list of the 50 Greatest Mets. He didn’t set any team records and he didn’t help the New York Mets win a pennant. What he did accomplish though is very significant. He was the first player to ever appear in a Mets uniform on a Topps card. In the 1962 set, most of the team’s Topps cards are head shots without caps; most of the players…
1991 SCORE DOC GOODEN Pictured is a 1991 Score Doc Gooden “The Franchise” card. It is card number 866 and part of the regular set. The back of the card features a couple of quotes about Gooden by then Cubs General Manager Jim Frey including, “…he can change the mood of the team all by himself” and “everything he does has special qualities.” The card also provides some highlights from Gooden’s 1990 season, noting that…
2003 MLB SHOWDOWN STEVE TRACHSEL This is the 2003 Steve Trachsel MLB Showdown card. This card is based off of Trachsel’s 2002 pitching performance. The game used a 20 sided dice, player cards, and strategy cards to allow a team to be drafted and a game to be played. There were base cards and there were also special foil cards for star players. In the later editions of the set, Hall of Fame player “superseason”…
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