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 have developed a line of vintage-baseball-card themed greeting cards. These are sure to fly off [...]
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. Of course, when it comes to Topps cards, the decade can only mean one thing: [...]
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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 when the clocks struck 2000. Topps reacted to the general fin-de-siecle unease by releasing their [...]
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 a veritable feast of random dots, blobs, and fish eyes... But every so often, a [...]
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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 consideration today is a bit of an oddball. Through 1973, Topps issued baseball cards in [...]
1963 JELL-O ROGER CRAIG The years 1961 through 1963 represent the golden age of cereal-box cards. The Post company plastered the backs of packages of Toasties, Rice Krinkles, Grape Nut Flakes, and the like with cutout cards of all the stars (and many lesser lights) of the day. And the sugared-up kids of the early [...]
There are cloudy skies looming behind this week's mystery Met, but you'd never know it by the look on his face. Our boy fixes his baby blues at the camera, looking for all the world like the love child of Shaun Cassidy and Gary Busey. He opens his mouth slightly, as if intent on forming [...]