Mets Through the Years: Center Field
October 2nd, 2012 by slangon

Ugh. This is going to be close. In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the New York Mets, I’ve been looking at the primary players at each position throughout the teams history. We’ve already looked at the managers, Opening Day starting pitchers, catchers, first basemen, second basemen,shortstops, third basemen and left fielders, as well as all of the Mets’ All-Star representatives. […]

Mets Through the Years: Third Base
September 4th, 2012 by slangon

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 […]

Mets Through the Years: The All-Star(s), 1991
July 10th, 2012 by slangon

Another year, another 2 Mets All-Stars. Hojo was treated to his second and final All-Star Game, thanks in part to his 38 homers and 117 runs batted in in 1991. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to work any of that magic in the game itself, as he went 0 for 2 with a strikeout. Frank “Sweet […]

Mets Through the Years: The All-Star(s), 1989
July 10th, 2012 by slangon

1988 was a bit of another last hoorah for the Mets. Following their unsuccessful run to return to the World Series that year, they began to slowly dismantle the team. They still sent 2 guys to the ASG in 1989, though. Darryl continued his impressive All-Star run with his 6th appearance at the Mid-Summer Classic. […]

Way to Photo Edit, Upper Deck
September 9th, 2010 by slangon

One of the many things I enjoy thinking about when looking at my baseball cards (Yes, I do often look at them. I don’t just file them away into books and boxes and let them collect dust and appreciate in value.) is trying to picture what the player on the card thinks when they see […]

Tribe Card Generosity
March 24th, 2010 by slangon

Like a bunch of other folks in this little card collecting community of ours, I recently was the recipient of some major league generosity bestowed upon me by Dave from Tribe Cards as part of his Last Great Tribecards Giveaway. Of course when I say recently I mean about a month ago. What can I […]

A Mother Scratchin’ Good Trade
January 18th, 2010 by slangon

One of the flurry of trades I had set up right before the holidays was one with Mother Scratcher from the Achiever Card Blog. I had seen a card that he had pulled on his blog and contacted him about the possibility of acquiring it. A trade was hammered out and an envelope appeared in […]

A Steaming Pile of Stuff To Do, Part VI
November 12th, 2009 by slangon

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 […]

A Steaming Pile of Stuff To Do, Part III
November 6th, 2009 by slangon

Before I get into this, I just want to touch on two points. First, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but I live in  New Jersey and work in Manhattan, which means I have about an hour and 15 minute commute by train/subway in the morning. Normally, this time is very relaxing for […]