Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
I absolutely loved Jason Stokes when he was coming up. I was able to get him once through the mail, though the card he signed did not turn out. He is–in my experience–impossible through the mail now. Why did I like him? He was a huge prospect. For seven seasons[…]
This is not a hard card to find at all–even the silver signature version–but its one of my favorite Thome cards. It’s a clean, simple design that really helps the Indians home uniform pop. The picture of Thome is just…classic Thome. He is in the box and ready, most likely,[…]
1994 Topps Traded was a hot product for a while, driven by rookie cards of Chan Ho Park, Ben Grieve, and Paul Konerko. But my favorite card out of there was always the Rusty Greer rookie. Greer was a great player during his nine seasons in the big league and[…]
There is one stat that I have always loved, and I put way too much stock into: on-base percentage. Even now, with all the advanced stats we have, its the first thing that I look. For me, it started when I was in high school and trying to build line-ups[…]
Last night I spent an hour uploading my Topps Now cards. I have been putting it off since the whole World Series thing still stings a little and I try not to think about it whenever I can. But, I have a website to build. So I bit the bullet.[…]
I was stationed in Omaha when Mark Prior was working his way up through the minors. When he was called up to AA I took the day off from work just to drive to Des Moines to see him pitch. The buzz around him was insane, and people were already[…]