1988 Score: Improved Velocity

Coming back from a sprained elbow in spring 1988, Greg Minton worked to improve his velocity.He’d made 60 miles per hour, he told The Los Angeles Times. And every time he threw, it seemed, he saw his velocity increasing by 10.”Right now, I might be abl…

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i got some mail yesterday.  three baseball card related items.  the first was a 1968 topps ron hunt card that i had sent off in hopes of an autograph.  mr. hunt returned it with a request for $15 donated to his baseball school.  fai…

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Who needs ’88 Score!?Picked up a wax box of 1988 Score cheap, and I mean $6 cheap. I know that I can get a complete set for $5 but that’s not as fun. So I threw it in my desk drawer at work and ripped a pack here and there over a couple weeks. It’s not…

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with the fantastic 1977 phil garner o-pee-chee variation on display today at oh my o-pee-chee!, i figured it was a good time to showcase my scrap iron through the mail successes!  funny enough, the first two feature garner without his wirebrush mu…

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Last week, I completed another one of my favorite sets, thanks to a handful of cards sent to me by Johnny Hiflew of Cards From the Quarry.1988 Score might not be the only Score set that matters, but it’s awfully close. I kind of like 1994 Score, and I …

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I collected next to no cards in 1988. Hopelessly in love with both a girl and bar-hopping, cards were decidedly uncool in ’88. No time and no desire.Rack packs of 1988 Score could have been hanging in an aisle in the drugstore I frequented almost every…

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You folks with excellent long-term memory function may recall that I was looking for names for the early Score sets — 1988, 1989 and 1990.I didn’t get a ton of input, which is understandable as they aren’t the easiest sets to name. Even my offer of a …

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Maybe you’ve only heard about it, but weren’t around to experience it.Check this out.Trust me on this one…you do not want to go there. As my dearly departed father would say, “Go back, it’s a TRAP”.I remember those days somewhat fondly now. It’s not …

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Over the course of the last week or two, I have informally “named” a few more sets. After much reflection (i.e. none), I decided to go ahead and formally name those sets in the “Define the Design” page of the blog. You can see the new names along with …

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(Last night was an off-day for the Dodgers. That means it was a day the Dodgers didn’t lose. This season I have learned to appreciate off-days. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 82nd in a series):What you see before you are two …

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volume 1 of the rick honeycutt team collector dilemma was a slam dunk.  i’m not too sure about this one.  it’s his 1988 score card:he’s a dodger, right?  well, look at the back:honeycutt was traded to the a’s late in the 1987 season for …

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matt young week is in full swing over at oh my o-pee-chee!  young had variations in every set from 1987 through 1992, except for 1989, and i’m highlighting them all right now.  over on this site, i figured i would show the cards that matt has…

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I’m about to reveal the card-related items that I received from my birthday a few days ago. My awards for surviving another year, if you will.I am splitting it into two posts because there are two distinct sets of goodies to review — ones that I recei…

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while the dodgers’ play so far this season has been disappointing, it’s early yet.  in fact, i am more disappointed that they are not wearing any sort of patch or armband in honor of willie davis.  while they haven’t been as visible as the ya…

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This weekend may be the busiest two days of the entire work year, and the next three weekends won’t be any picnic either.That means I don’t have time for anything clever or thought-provoking today. All I can offer is a simple trade post.I know. Th…

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the great sports name hall of fame, that is!this guy doesn’t have a hall of fame name, but his nickname is pretty good – it’s a 1994 topps gold cory ‘corndog’ snyderfollowed by a 1993 pacific ramon martinezel es un lanzador.  bueno.a nice dou…

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It’s been a while.I’m still here, not reading as much as I used to, but I’m still active in the hobby… but I haven’t opened a pack of cards in about six months. I look at the barely opened box of ’88 Donruss and want to keep going, but I just can’t …

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My life, for the last nine months has been a pretty strange ride. I won’t go into great detail, but after not having a job for a long time, I finally found one. Walmart. Not the best in the world, but I enjoyed it. But then I was offered a job with…

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I think I’m finally finished buying series 2. I currently have 235 of the 330 cards and a good stack of doubles. The doubles list will be updated later tonight. For now, here’s what I need.332, 335, 337, 339, 345, 349, 350, 359, 362, 363, 364, 369, …

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Well, looks like Dayf wants to see me hack up my 1988 Fleer box with a machete. Well, here you go.In three parts.I had to switch to a smaller knife to cut out the cards because I like my fingers. The knives used are: Ontario RTAK and a Spyderco Cent…

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I didn’t get around to posting the stack of 88 Fleer that Jeff from Card Junkie sent yesterday, and maybe it’s a good thing. Becuase in the mail box today were two more packages. One from Fat Rat with more 1988 Fleer.Before going to the mail box on S…

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Series Two O’s.Are all the series 2 boxes Lou Gherig? This’ll be the third one I’ve bought and all three have been Lou.So with two cereal boxes, five packs and a blaster, I’m 51% through the set. So let’s see how I do with this one. I’ve only pulled…

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In the mail box this afternoon were two small bubble mailers. One from Jeff at Card Junkie, and one from reader Mike, out in Bozeman, Montana.I’ve never been to Montana, but a great deal of one of my favorite books, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maint…

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I was in Wal Mart, and I said I wasn’t going to buy any more retail packs, and I didn’t. But I did pick two boxes of Lou Gherig O’s. $10 and unsearchable, it’s a good deal.Looks tasty. Let’s hope so.I won’t list every card because that would be bori…

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We’re going from one of the most visually appealing Strawberry cards in my collection to something definitely not so visually appealing: 1988 Score.I’m sorry, but the green just doesn’t work for me. Why couldn’t Score have color coded this set with c…

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Mail Day from Fat RatI’m a beer snob. I love beer, good beer. Keep Budweiser away from me, and bring me something dark, heavy or microbrewed. In fact, I just cracked open a bottle of Magic Hat No. 9, and fittingly, the cap says “Where have you gone …

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I sent out a few trades yesterday, and this one was in the mail box when I got home.I’ve never heard of this guy, but he’s got a pretty nice looking card. He does look a bit unsavory, but he’s a catcher. They’re supposed to look rough around the edge…

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As promised, here’s a large surprise mail day from Greg at Night Owl Cards.Here’s a small sampling of the 41 cards he sent. I’m now 19 cards away and nine more of them should be on their way to me pretty soon, so I’m nearing the end of a set that I th…

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These two may seems pretty off the wall, but they’ll make sense in the end.Reed and Tolleson are two of seven players who attended my alma mater, Western Carolina University. According to the back of the ’87 Topps card, Jerry Reed pitched the first no…

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So I posted a few days ago about how I got my hands on a blaster of Series 2. Well, tonight I finally found some retail packs and bought five.When you take out all the inserts and Topps Town cards from the blaster, I got 63 total base cards. No doubl…

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It took fifteen innings, but Bobby Cox won his 2,000th Atlanta Braves game tonight, 7-6 against the Pirates.Congratulations Bobby. I hope he can make it back to the World Series one more time.Also, I know this was his 2,000 Braves win, so why did I po…

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YAY, finally found series 2. Now I know blasters aren’t as economical as retail packs, but there were five packs left and every one of them had been opened and searched. So this time, I’ll settle for less cards just to know they haven’t been searched…

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Went to the mailbox this morning: satellite bill, insurance bill, junk mail, envelope with my handwriting, Barnes & Noble coupon… wait a minute. Envelope with my handwriting?I looked at the post mark… Las Vegas. Wait, wait, don’t get too excite…

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Here’s a sampling of the second part of the package I got today from Dayf.Let’s start with the greatest uniform in the history of baseball:In 1978, White was involved in an interested deal. The Expos sent a player to be named later to the Cubs for a p…

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A package came in today from Dayf at the venerable Cardboard Junkie. Once again, the generosity of this community astounds me. I’m sending Dayf three 2000 Topps series 1 that he needs, and in return he sent 21 1981 Topps and 3 1989 Bowmans that I nee…

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