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Fun Cards of the All-Stars
Way back before the season began, Mike from Awesomely Bad Wax Packs approached me with the idea of producing a set of fun cards for the baseball card blogging community. Due to my apathy and inability...
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TTM Success!
Back in spring training, my son and I decided to send a few cards to Josh Hamilton at the Rangers camp. I had given up on them, and even last week when my son asked when they would be coming back, I...
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The Midsummer Yawner
The rosters were announced today for the MLB All-Star Game. I don’t know if I could be any less excited. No Griffey, no Soriano, no Hanigan. What’s to root for? A few of my AL votes got in: Ichiro,...
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2009 Topps Josh Hamilton
Another former Reds player who is still in the big leagues, Josh Hamilton serves as an inspiration to us all that you can overcome your demons with hard work and perseverance. I won’t rehash the story...
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Valuable Redlegs
I’m still pumped about Joey Votto‘s victory over the evil Albert Pujols (who is not really evil, but it sounds good, doesn’t it?) in the 2010 NL MVP vote. Of course, Votto was not the first Cincinnati...
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Fun Card: 1987 Fleer “Super Star Special” David Ortiz/Josh Hamilton
David Ortiz and Josh Hamilton chatting it up during the workout on Monday. I wonder what they’re looking at off in the distance? Maybe they’re laughing at Cliff Lee‘s shoes.
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Zombiefied World Series
Congratulations are in order to the Texas Rangers for making the World Series this year. I suppose the same should be said for the St. Louis Cardinals, even though they shouldn’t have been in the...
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Long gone
Josh Hamilton became only the sixteenth player in MLB history to hit four home runs in one game. Babe Ruth never did it; neither did Hank Aaron, Alex Rodriguez, or Barry Bonds. Hamilton joins Hall of...
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Reds junk from the Barves Junkie
There has not been a new post on the Cardboard Junkie website in four months. But Dave is still quite active on Twitter as @CardJunk, and after telling him that I wanted to send him some Barves cards,...
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Happy Reds birthday, Josh Hamilton!
May 21, 1981 His star rose, then fell, then rose again, only to be toppled. Drugs are bad, mmmkay? Josh Hamilton, the 2010 AL MVP, is a man without a team. After five straight All-Star appearances,...
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