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Aurelio Lopez and His Melancholy Rookie Card
(If you like some cardboard with your baseball trivia, read the rest of our related posts here.) Aurelio Lopez was born on September 21, 1943, just as summer officially gave way to autumn in the northern hemisphere. Of course, the changing seasons were not quite so drastic and distinct in Lopez’s hometown of Tecamachalco, on the outskirts of…
Aurelio Lopez and His Melancholy Rookie Card was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
Mickey Morandini and the Merry Men of the Unassisted Triple Play
(If you like some cardboard with your baseball trivia, read the rest of our related posts here.) Before September 20, 1992, Mickey Morandini was just another of the young players that the Philadelphia Phillies were grooming to be part of what they hoped would eventually turn into an exciting team. Morandini was 26 years old and in…
Mickey Morandini and the Merry Men of the Unassisted Triple Play was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
The Unlikely and (Sorta) Synchronous MLB Debuts of Ted Cox and Orlando Mercado
Usually, we think of designated hitters as lumbering old men who can’t play effectively in the field anymore. Or maybe they’re all-around superstars who need an occasional night off without really being off — you know, to keep their bat in the lineup. Very occasionally, a younger player will build a career around the DH…
The Unlikely and (Sorta) Synchronous MLB Debuts of Ted Cox and Orlando Mercado was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
How Topps Helped Fred Breining Best Sandy Koufax in 1985
I don’t know much about Fred Breining other than what Baseball Reference has to say about him … He was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1974 MLB January Draft from the College of San Mateo. He spent the next five seasons working his way through the Pirates’ minor league system until they traded…
How Topps Helped Fred Breining Best Sandy Koufax in 1985 was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
11 Topps Future Stars Baseball Cards ... that Were Too Late!
In 1960, Topps debuted their All-Star Rookie team that celebrated the best first-year players from the season before. In the decades since then, T.C.G. hasn’t been shy about doling out cardboard honors for the players they deem as the future stars of baseball. During most of those years, though, there was a hedge. These players…
11 Topps Future Stars Baseball Cards … that Were Too Late! was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
The Incredible Crossovers -- NFL Players Who Made the Majors (and Their Baseball Cards!)
(If you like some cardboard with your baseball trivia, read the rest of our related posts here.) Every fall, sports fans start to lose focus on the green cathedrals of summer when the thundering cleats begin to rumble in the distance, signaling the arrival of another NFL season. But we’re diehards around here and, while we…
The Incredible Crossovers — NFL Players Who Made the Majors (and Their Baseball Cards!) was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
Greatest World Series Thrillers [Vintage Baseball Book Review]
[This article contains affiliate links to Amazon and AbeBooks.] One of the reasons that baseball cards held such appeal for boys in earlier days of the hobby was that they gave us an insight into the game we loved that we couldn’t get anywhere else. In the 1980s and before, after all, we were lucky…
Greatest World Series Thrillers [Vintage Baseball Book Review] was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
1933 Goudey Checklist
1 Benny Bengough 2 Dazzy Vance 3 Hughie Critz 4 Heinie Schuble 5 Babe Herman 6 Jimmie Dykes Error 6 Jimmie Dykes Corrected 7 Ted Lyons 8 Roy Johnson 9 Dave Harris 10 Glenn Myatt 11 Billy Rogell 12 George Pipgras 13 Lafayette Thompson 14 Henry Johnson 15 Vic Sorrell 16 George Blaeholder 17 Watty…
1933 Goudey Checklist was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
The First Tennessee Football Player to Appear on a Baseball Card Was ...
(If you like some cardboard with your baseball trivia, read the rest of our related posts here.) If you’ve followed either Major League Baseball or college football over the last couple of decades, then you know that the Unversity of Tennessee football program regularly churns out stellar athletes. How stellar? Even putting aside the obvious NFL…
The First Tennessee Football Player to Appear on a Baseball Card Was … was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
Which Was the First Goose Gossage Baseball Card?
(If you like this post, you might also want to know which card was first to feature saves as a statistic. Check out the story here.) As baseball fans, we tend to take certain things for granted. Like Goose Gossage and his monster fastball, for example. From the mid-1970s through the late 1980s, we knew…
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Celebrate Labor Day with the Baseball Cards of These Ultimate Diamond 'Workers'
(If you like some cardboard with your baseball trivia, read the rest of our related posts here.) Labor Day is an opportunity for Americans to sit back and celebrate the work that we do all year round, usually with little fanfare. Most of the time, we just show up day after day, do our jobs to…
Celebrate Labor Day with the Baseball Cards of These Ultimate Diamond ‘Workers’ was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
That Time Kevin Bass Became Mickey Mantle for a Day
(If you like some cardboard with your baseball trivia, read the rest of our related posts here.) Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest players of all time, and his emergence in center field for the New York Yankees in the 1950s just as America was starting to gleam again after World War II has…
That Time Kevin Bass Became Mickey Mantle for a Day was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
How to Resent the Best Baseball Card from 1989 in 16 Easy Steps
(This is Day 30 of our series on the “Best Card From” each year, 1960-1989. Read all the entries here.) Look, we all know that the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey, Jr., rookie card is the best baseball card issued that year and probably in the entire decade of the 1980s. Heck, if there had been several…
How to Resent the Best Baseball Card from 1989 in 16 Easy Steps was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
Collectors Know the Best Baseball Card of 1988
(This is Day 29 of our series on the “Best Card From” each year, 1960-1989. Read all the entries here.) Choosing the best baseball card from 1988 is like picking your favorite sip of water. I mean, there are millions of each to consider and they’re all about as exciting as — well, as a sip…
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The Best Baseball Card of 1987 Was the Perfect Marriage of Power and Scarcity
(This is Day 28 of our series on the “Best Card From” each year, 1960-1989. Read all the entries here.) It may sound ridiculous now, but the start of the 1987 baseball card collecting season was marked by a frenzy of scarcity. Now, this doesn’t and never did apply to the 1987 Topps woodies that are so…
The Best Baseball Card of 1987 Was the Perfect Marriage of Power and Scarcity was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
The Best Baseball Card from 1986 Is the Simplest
(This is Day 27 of our series on the “Best Card From” each year, 1960-1989. Read all the entries here.) If you were to wake up tomorrow to find the year was 1986, you might be shocked by the state of the baseball card hobby. Depending on how deep you were into the cardboard world, your…
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The Best Baseball Card of 1985 Was as Unlikely as Game 7
(This is Day 26 of our series on the “Best Card From” each year, 1960-1989. Read all the entries here.) If you wanted to pinpoint one year as the year baseball cards exploded into a full-blown cultural phenomenon complete with national news coverage, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better candidate than 1985. By then, we’d…
The Best Baseball Card of 1985 Was as Unlikely as Game 7 was originally published on Wax Pack Gods