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…
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
OOTP Perfect Team Champions!
I’ve been playing Out of the Park Baseball since, hell, I don’t know, Tandy was making computers? Either way, I’ve been playing OOTP forever, but I’ve always played single player. And a lot of the time, I just like to…
Stumbled Across Pack-Pulled Mike Trout & Bryce Harper Pre-Rookies
I decided to cheat a little bit on the $50 challenge. I decided to go through the books of cards I’ve gotten in the last few years to put together a modern shipment for Comc. In my minor league…
Baseball cards and nonsense.
