Man, I’ve been slacking on this series. I still have 5 positions left to go and only about a month left in the season. We’ve already looked at the managers, catchers, Opening Day starting pitchers, first basemen and second basemen. We’ve also gone through the players the Mets have sent to the All-Star Game every […]
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So the Mets lost again last night. No big surprise there. It’s been almost 3 weeks since the All-Star game and the team has managed to win 2 games. Depressing. Rather than just be all doom and gloom, I’ve decided that I’m going to just look at the silver lining. For instance during last night’s […]
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For the first All-Star Game of the new millennium, the Mets sent 3 players to the festivities. Fonzie was named to his first and only All-Star game in 2000. He had a killer year, batting .324 with 25 homers and 94 RBI’s. That’s pretty damn nice from 2nd base. He came into the All-Star game […]
Tags: 2000 Topps, Al Leiter, Edgardo Alfonzo, Mike Piazza
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This is the fifth post in this series. We’ve already covered the men who’ve serve as managers, opening day starters, catchers and first basemen for the Mets over their 50 year history. Today, we’ll take a gander at the guys who’ve manned second for the Metropolitans over the years, in cardboard form, of course. Charlie […]
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This series of posts is dedicated to examining the numerous design details from the Topps art department that leave me scratching my head. They’re the types of things that could just be one time instances that are the result of someone overlooking them, or they could have been a conscious decision on the part of […]
Tags: 1954 Topps, 1956 Topps, 1963 Topps, 1965 Topps, 1971 Topps, 1975 Topps, 2000 Fleer Tradition, 2001 Fleer Tradition, 2001 Upper Deck Decade, 2001 Upper Deck Vintage, 2002 Upper Deck Vintage, 2003 Upper Deck Vintage, 2005 Fleer Tradition, 2009 Upper Deck, 2010 Topps Vintage Legends, Al Leiter, Alex Escobar, Bobby Valentine, Bubba Trammell, Cliff Cook, Dave Kingman, Derek Bell, Ed Charles, Ed Kranepool, Edgardo Alfonzo, Harvey Kuenn, Jae Weong Seo, Joe Frazier, Johan Santana, Mike Strahler, Mo Vaughn, Nolan Ryan, Richard Hidalgo, Rollie Fingers, Rusty Staub
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Back about a million years ago (or at least it seems that long ago to me) (seriously, it took me about 20 minutes of hitting “Older Posts” and scrolling down to find the post I was looking for), The Cardboard Junkie put out a call for all your blank pack searcher decoy thingies in exchange […]
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I don’t know about you, but I often seem to run into this problem. A manilla envelope shows up in my mailbox and I know that it means one thing: sweet, sweet cardboard. Sometimes, I have the time to crack that sucker open right then and there and see what’s in it, sometimes I don’t. […]
Tags: 1995 Topps Traded, 1997 Topps, 1998 Collector's Choice, 1999 Topps Traded, 2000 Topps, 2001 Fleer Tradition, 2004 Fleer Platinum, 2004 Ultra, 2006 Fleer, 2011 Bowman Platinum, 2011 Topps, Al Leiter, Brad Emaus, Carlos Delgado, Edgardo Alfonzo, John Olerud, Kenny Rogers, league leader card, Mike Cameron, Mike Nickeas, Pete Harnisch, Prentice Redman, Rey Ordonez, Rico Brogna
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A while ago, Cards on Cards held a little College Bowl Pick ‘Em contest. I had the dubious distinction of being the worst out of everyone when it came to picking the winners of College Bowl games. Madding was good enough to send some prizes my way as a way of enabling my poor football […]
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The 90’s portion of the box. Or at least my favoritest. 1991 Baseball Card Price Guide Monthly #25 Howard Johnson – A weird card I’d never seen before. Blatant rip-off of 71 Topps, which is cool with me. On the back, instead of stats, it has “Pocket Price Guide” Card Values. Hojo’s 83 Donruss ran […]
Tags: Arnold Gooch, Bobby Bonilla, Bobby Jones, Brook Fordyce, Carlos Delgado, Dave Kingman, Donnie Leshnock, Eddie Murray, Edgardo Alfonzo, Frank Taveras, Howard Johnson, Jeromy Burnitz, John Olerud, junk wax, Keith Hernandez, mail day, Masato Yoshii, Mets, Mike Piazza, Tug McGraw
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So a week or two ago, Nachos Grande announced their Card For Clunkers 2.0 Program. It’s such a good idea, I might need to steal it. Of course that would involve me getting off my ass and figuring out what cards I would include, so don’t hold your breath. Anyway, here’s the basic gist of […]
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