Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
This team made the post-season, or so I am told. Key Cards and Notes: #PS-18 Greg Allen has the Rookie Logoman on it, so that is probably worth mentioning. This set might be noteworthy to Indians fans for the inclusion of Josh Donaldson and Melky Cabrera. Both players had pretty[…]
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[…]