Anthony Volpe’s legible autograph
The best thing about this prospect isn’t his incredible hitting, it’s that his autograph is legible.
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When Topps’ MLBPA contract expires in 2022, what happens in 2023?
It’s possible that the baseball card industry will have THREE years of cards from 2023-2025 being produced with no team logos. Generic crap cards for three solid years.
Yermin Mercedes retiring?!
I got the news that White Sox player Yermin Mercedes is retiring halfway through his rookie season. (via a tweet from @AndyMarfia) Wasn’t Mercedes incredible? First player ever to have 8 consecutive hits to start the season. I was surprised to hear he’s back down in the minors. His controversial 3-1 homerun (May 17). At …
Trea Turner is in my Hall of Fame
Today I learned (from the Topps Now on Bunt) that Trea Turner hit his third career cycle. Only three other players have three career cycles: Adrián Beltré, Babe Herman and Bob Meusel. Trea Turner is in my Hall of Fame. (To get into my Hall, you need to be in the top ten at least …
Cubs logo on Millennium Falcon (t-shirt)
What do the Chicago Cubs and the Millennium Falcon have in common?
Flamethrowers from Topps Bunt
Aroldis Chapman looks extremely tough here. Almost TOO tough. Like, in a rage.
A flag for every team in baseball
You know what every MLB team should have? An official team flag. A flag that DOES NOT have their logo. Because a flag with a logo is a pennant. In fact, it would be a rule by MLB branding, that a team flag cannot have any letters at all. It would be interesting if MLB …
Long-term value of digital trading cards
I discovered that Topps has its own NFT baseball cards based on the “WAX” blockchain. Called “TOPPS MLB SERIES 1 NFT COLLECTION”, they were released April 16, 2021. Topps released 50,000 standard packs with six digital collectibles for $4.99 each, along with 25,000 premium packs with 45 collectibles each for $99.99 apiece. The super-high-end cards …
The Cub most similar to Bob Uecker
According to Baseball-Reference, the Cub player most similar to Bob Uecker is Koyie Hill, the Cubs backup catcher to Geovany Soto from 2008-2012. (He was also backup catcher to Michael Barrett in 2007). Fun facts about Koyie Hill Koyie Hill is second ALL-TIME for worst Offensive Runs to end a career. (source) In 1999, Hill …
Cubs’ Pat Hughes & LRSrecycles.com dumpsters
What’s up with the dumpster ads that Pat Hughes reads on Cubs radio?
Winning is not everything
There are so many times when I’m reading books to my kids, and I have to alter the book to de-emphasize the winning aspect. For instance, one of my kids’ favorite books is “Good night, Cubs”. One of the lines in the book says, “The teams take the field. We can’t lose; we must win.” …
Sponsor a player on baseball-reference
For years I would use baseball-reference to look up stats, because the site was simple, loads fast, not a ton of ads or videos. Now, the past week whenever I load the site, my laptop fan starts spinning. I might have to use another site for my quick stat lookups. I don’t like how now …