Rip it up and start again.
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 [...]
These are the breaks...
Not sucking in the seventies.
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 [...]
In these days to be an oddity, be hunted down like a scarcity...
Nolan Ryan of the Mets was never called an Astro...
Inverse, converse, diverse, perverse, and reverse.
Daniel Murphy comes in colors everywhere...
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]