Mets Through the Years: Second Base
June 22nd, 2012 by slangon

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 […]

The 8 Stages of My Thanksgiving
November 25th, 2011 by slangon

Stage 1: The Gromek I had just finally pushed back from the table and was pretty pleased with myself at the damage I had done. Stage 2: The Noren A while after I had parked it on the couch, probably sometime around the start of the Cowboys game, I began to drift into some sort […]

Careful What You Wish For
October 22nd, 2011 by slangon

Yesterday, I was talking about how I was pretty surprised that given all the big sluggers in both the Cardinals and Rangers lineups the first 2 games of the World Series were relatively low scoring affairs. I further went on to hypothesize that perhaps playing the next few games in Texas would remedy that. Well […]

A Fistful of 6-for-5 Bin
March 12th, 2010 by slangon

Made it back to the card shop a few weeks ago and picked up some more “packs” from the 6 for $5 bin. Here’s one. 1969 Topps #606 Gene Mauch My collection of manager cards has been growing quite a bit quicker than my collection of team cards. I wonder why that is. Here’s Gene […]

Some More Sportlots Finds
February 19th, 2010 by slangon

When I declared 2010 to be “The Year of Vintage”, apparently, I wasn’t kidding. Here’s a smorgasbord of manager and coaches cards that I picked up. The more my vintage collection grows, it’s fun to notice that a lot of those guys I actually have cards from their playing days. I know I have Galen […]

Some More Sportlots
February 15th, 2010 by slangon

Since Topps is apparently taking its sweet-ass time activating the Million Card Giveaway, I thought I’d showcase some old cards that I got recently from Sportlots. Dollars to donuts they’re probably much cooler than anything I’m going to get from that giveaway anyways. I ended up with 39 cards for around $20 with shipping. Not […]