You Want a New NBA Logo? Here You Go (The Kobe Bryant Post)
February 27, 2021This is a weird post for me to write for two reasons. First, I haven’t watched much pro basketball since the high school. I was a Sixers fan from the 80’s through to about 2000. I lived the Dr. J era, the Shawn Bradley era and the Allen Iverson era. But my interest waned in the late 90’s and had completely dissipated by the early 2000s. This was caused by no other reason than it was replaced by non-sport interests. I did go a Sixers game about 5 years ago, and I felt like I was visiting a different planet. …
Stadium Visit: Gillette Stadium (Foxboro, MA) Massachusetts COVID-19 Vaccination Super-Site
First stadium visit in over a year, and sadly it wasn’t for a sporting event. But, it was the first long sought harbinger of the end of the pandemic. I was fortunate enough to be able to schedule a round…
Mail Day: Reading Phillies & Lehigh Valley IronPigs Team Sets
Two additions to the minor league team sets came in today. I’m on a slow burn to get a complete Phillies minor league team set…set (and I’m picking up Pawtucket Red Sox team sets as I see them, because they…
Am I a Bowman Collector? (The N64 Controller Post)
There are just too many goddamned Topps sets and subsets and inserts and parallels and who can keep up. Looking at the line-up of Topps sets last year feels exactly the same as when I looked at an N64 controller…
Mail Day: Mike Schmidt PC Additions
I haven’t added any cards to my Mike Schmidt collection, which I’ve been growing and holding on to since the early 80’s. Most of the cards I got were newer. The only two career-era cards I picked up were the…
We’ve Joined an Online OOTP League
After decades of playing Out of the Park Baseball, I’ve finally jumped in to an online league. I’ve picked up the St. Louis Cardinals in the Balco League. It’s a historical league that started in 1992 and is currently in…
Incoming Mail: February’s Going to Be a Big Month for the Collection
I may or may not have gone on a wildly ill-advised eBay shopping spree. Went a little bonkers. Grabbed two small lots of ’61 Topps base set. I’ve decided to start building the set. Found a good deal on a…
Another 100 Win Season in OOTP Perfect Team
Our second OOTP Perfect Team season is in the books, if you’re unfamiliar, Perfect Team is a build-a-deck style multi-player format in Out of the Park Baseball. It’s part Strat-o-matic, and part Pokemon. And worth a look if you’re a…
2021 TTM Hall of Fame Set
New custom card set has been added to the Customs section of the site. I knocked out 10 cards for some of the best Through The Mail autograph signers. The design is the 1951 Topps look, but with the a…
To Live and Die By the Hit Chase: The Steve Sharts’ Post
My enthusiasm for Topps S1 faded disappointingly quickly. Some of it may be that it was a reminder that I’ll probably go another summer without sitting in a baseball stadium enjoying a game. But I think most of it has…
Rays All-Access With Insight Into Player Fanmail
Baseball cards and nonsense.
