on January 19th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
‘Same Card, Different Paths’ – Card #34
1974 Topps - Card #600 – AKA – ‘The Bill Madlock Rookie Card’
Ron Cash – A utility player, Ron Cash’s major league career lasted just 2 seasons. And while spending time at first base, third base, and in the outfield, Cash was never able to solidify his status as an everyday player. [...]
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Since Randy Johnson’s recent retirement announcement that he is leaving the game second on the strikeout list and the most recent pitcher to crack the 300 win barrier, I have been wondering who will be the next Mr. 300? At first, no one came to…
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on January 19th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
1992 Donruss Greg Maddux
At a boxing or UFC or WWE wrestling match you hear the crowd chant ‘Boring, Boring, Boring’ where there is a lull in the action.
I feel like doing that when I see this Greg Maddux card from the 1992 base set.
Truly boring, this card offers nothing special to the collector. No new graphics. [...]
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on January 19th, 2010 by T.S.
Here’s an admission you don’t get every day from hobby pundits: I am
hardly the final word on virtually any topic you want to name in our beloved hobby.
Being a member in reasonably good standing of the hobby press and having
the kind of forum that Sports Collectors Digest represents in reaching avid
collectors every week – or in online blogs virtually every weekday – may give a faulty
impression.
I have long understood that there are countless advanced collectors who
have vast knowledge and understanding of their particular areas of expertise but simply
don’t have the soapbox that others do.
It is to these sages that I direct my question about 1958 Topps Baseball. After
I wrote a story a couple of weeks back in SCD about that colorful issue, I got an
e-mail from a reader asking if I was aware of the reason Topps selected that design
that year.
Easiest way to do this is just quote him directly: “You do know why
Topps cut out the ballpark backgrounds and went to vivid colors for the 1958 set,
right? Because they were all in, or from, Brooklyn, and they couldn’t bear the thought
of the new cards depicting photos from Ebbets Field or the Polo Grounds (except where
unavoidable, as in the team shots and the multiple player cards).”
I was startled, because I had never heard that theory, and at least potentially
mortified because I should have. But at my age mortification is rarely a big deal,
so I called a couple of old-timers who made me feel a bit better because they hadn’t
heard of it either.
And so I called Sy Berger, in part because I always like finding
excuses to call him anyway. When I relayed the theory, Sy said, “Baloney.” Which seemed
fairly unambiguous. “No truth to it at all,” he added. According to Sy, the switch
to the cut-out backgrounds – I’ll paraphrase here – was based on finding a contrasting
style to the previous year where photos were left intact to show the ballparks.
Sy’s pronouncement may or may not put an end to the discussion, but I’d
certainly love to hear from any readers who had heard such a thing, including any
attribution, however sketchy it might be a half-century later.
Either way, I think it’s a great bit of hobby lore.
And in a personal aside, I’ll wish the Bergers a happy 64th wedding anniversary.
How cool is that?
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on January 19th, 2010 by chemgod
I was originaly going to post this on Monday but didn’t have enough responses. I am definitely going to have to change the layout of the ad so that people actually give me a bid on it. Although most people knew the card was valuable, very few (one person) decided to come clean and tell [...]
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