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One card only - American Pie
Topps American Pie was a short-lived range that featured a mix of subjects - baseball players, celebrities and cards denoting historical events. Topps still produce sets like this, notably their Allen...
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Happy birthday Mr Padre (redux)
Two years ago I started this blog on what would have been Tony Gwynn's 60th birthday. My plan then was to collect and blog about 394 different Tony Gwynn baseball cards. Now, two years and over 500...
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Tuesday Quins - Stadium Club Chrome
I've already got three versions of the same card from the Stadium Club set released by Topps last year. (They are the normal card, the red parallel and the black parallel.) This post features two more...
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Staying in the Club
Fuji commented on yesterday's post saying how much he likes Stadium Club cards. So this post is for Fuji!Card Number 1012: Topps Stadium Club Members Only, 1994; #43Tony featured in this 50-card set...
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Among the rookies with Upper Deck
Today's post features three cards released by Upper Deck in 1998.Card Number 1013: Upper Deck, 1998; #619The Upper Deck set in '98 was released in three tranches - Series 1, Series 2, and the third...
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Sportflics gets an X
Sportflics got updated in the mid-90s to Sportflix. The cards continued using the same lenticular finish though, making them difficult to capture properly for blogging purposes. I've had a go...Card...
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Upper Decks bits and bobbleheads
Upper Deck's fun range, known as 'Collector's Choice' had a few gimmicky things like bobbleheads and various competition giveaways. Let's start with the second 'bobblehead' to feature on this blog and...
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One card only - a grandstand great
Card Number 1024: Fleer Platinum Grandstand Greats, 2001: #7GGThese insert cards had rounded corners as befitting an 'old timey' retro set. Fleer Platinum was marking Fleer's 20th year producing...
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One card only - game-worn Gold Label
I'm not sure how it has been two and a half months since I last blogged. Anyway, I'm hoping to restart this soon. I have about 50 cards sitting to be blogged, some of them for several months. But...
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Modern Monday - pristine!
This card arrived in the mail from Mark B - thank you so much, Mark! I've been a bit slack on collecting the 2022 issues. This is the first card from this particular range produced by Topps, which has...
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Modern Monday - crowned a Diamond King again
Another 2022 release, this time from Ryan in the UK collectors group on Facebook. Cheers, Ryan!Card Number 1027: Panini Diamond Kings, 2022; #12The painted effect on the card is pretty standard fare...
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A star from California
This post was made possible by Casey who contacted me saying he wanted to send me a card. In fact, he sent a few, all the way from California. (Casey is a church pastor as well as a baseball card...
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Back to base: SP in the late 90s
A short run of base cards from the Upper Deck SP ranges. These days "SP" means "Short print". I've previously tried to discover what 'SP' meant when Upper Deck was using it, but haven't had any joy....
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The legacy of Leaf
Leaf is a weird minor player in the card world now after the brand name was bought just over a decade ago, but back when Leaf was part of DonRuss there were lots of Leaf sets released. Some of them are...
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Another royal title
DonRuss repeatedly honoured Tony as a Diamond King during the 80s and 90s but Fleer crowned him as a different kind of king in 1999.Card Number 1033: Fleer Ultra, 1999; #13RKThe spectacular design on...
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Legendary oddball
An oddball treat today - a card that doesn't appear on Baseballcardpedia. These cards were apparently issued with a magazine called Legends Sporting Memorabilia, supplied in uncut sheets of 9 cards...
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One card only - Tony's first home run
Opinion is divided on 'manufactured relics' like this card. They're usually found as bonus cards in blaster boxes. While I realise they aren't to every collector's taste, they're a bit out of the...
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Modern Monday - another class of Gold Label
I'm not consistent in how I write the headers for Gold Label cards. The "class" of the card is sometimes in brackets, sometimes not. But I doubt anyone cares too much. I feel people come to my blog to...
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Tuesday Twins from Upper Deck sets
Card Number 1037: Upper Deck Victory, 1999; #339This is one of those cards where I had the parallel a long time before I acquired the base version. In fact, when I blogged the parallel version I...
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Blue DonRuss
Have you ever bought a complete set just to get one card? A couple of months ago, I did.The 1990 set by DonRuss is one of those incredibly common junk wax sets that I quite like. I think it's the red...
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