Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
Don Sutton was a great player. He spent 23-seasons in the big leagues, the majority of them with the Dodgers, and won 324 games. He was selected to the Hall of Fame in 1998. While I know about Sutton, I had no idea that he spent a season with the[…]
Luis Robert spent most of 2020 looking like the American League ROY. But over the last month, he has been struggling and is now hitting .220/.291/.435, good for an OPS+ of 97. Still, he is only 22 and looks like he is the White Sox center fielder of the future.[…]
Neat Topps Archives autograph card of Sal Bando. Bando spent 11 seasons with the Oakland Athletics and is one–if not the–best third baseman in franchise history. During his time with the club, he hit .255/.359/.418 with 192 HR, good for an OPS+ of 127. He was an All-Star four times[…]
I know that you already knew this, but Jeff Bagwell was a really good baseball player. When I think Jeff Bagwell the only team that I think of is the Astro’s, so its always weird to remember that he was actually drafted by the Red Sox in the 4th[…]
Jacob deGrom won the 2018 Cy Young Award. He did it despite winning 10 games. which if you know how these votes (and voters) work, is very impressive. Luckily voters looked past his win total and looked at the numbers that count: over 217 innings he only allowed 152 hits[…]
I never really appreciated how great John Smoltz was until recently. I blame that partially on the fact that I grew up a Cleveland fan, and after the 1995 season tried to not think too much about the Braves. But Smoltz…man. He was really good. Good enough that after reading[…]