BACK TO THE JUNK BOX AFTER LIFE GOT DERAILED A SMIDGE. THE TIGERS PILE IS PRETTY BIG AT 92 CARDS TOTAL
THE TRADED SET GIVES US SOME PRETTY GOOD TIGERS. BILL MADLOCK IS A VERY UNDERRATED PLAYER AND WAS THE LAST CARD I NEEDED FOR MY 1992 KELLOGG'S SET. EMPHASIS ON WAS - MY COMC SHIPMENT IS SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE ON JANUARY 3RD. HENNEMAN AND ROBINSON ARE DECENT PITCHERS AND THAT MATT NOKES CARD HAS TO BE WORTH A BUNCH NOW, RIGHT? BECKETT'S HOT LIST WOULDN'T LIE TO ME
1987 TOPPS TRADED COUNT: 11/132
THE TIGERS ALSO ADD A BIG CHUNK TO MY SECOND 2002 SET, PROBABLY BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T MANY STARS TO PICK OUT. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE JOSE LIMA, ASTROS RADIO GUY STEVE SPARKS AND MANAGER PHIL GARNER
THERE WERE A COUPLE SURPRISES IN THERE TOO. FIRST HERE'S A SHINY GOLD DAMION EASLEY
CHECK OUT THE PLACEMENT ON THAT SERIAL NUMBER. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE DESIGNERS KNEW TO SAVE A BUNCH OF DEAD SPACE ON EACH CARD FOR SERIAL NUMBERING, RELICS AND AUTOGRAPHS
THE OTHER BIG SURPRISE IS THIS FACTORY SET EXCLUSIVE DRAFT PICK CARD OF SCOTT MOORE. THIS ADDS TO MY SUSPICION THAT THE PREVIOUS OWNER OF THIS BOX BOUGHT A FACTORY SET TO STRIP FOR PARTS. WE'LL HAVE TO BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR THE OTHER FOUR DRAFT CARDS FROM THIS SET AS NONE OF THE PLAYERS PANNED OUT ENOUGH TO BE CHERRY PICKED OUT OF THE BOX
CECIL FIELDER JUST CHILLIN WHILE THE SAN DIEGO CHICKEN WORSHIPS AT HIS FEET. FIND ME A BETTER CARD PRINTED THIS YEAR, I DARE YOU
I WAS NOT A FAN OF TOPPS KIDS WHEN IT CAME OUT BUT I'VE COME AROUND ON IT. IT'S NICELY GOOFY
YEAAAAAH SHINIES! LOVE FINDING THE PACIFIC PRISM CARDS
TONY CLARK ON THE MLB SHOWDOWN COMMON CARD BEFORE HE STARTED WITH ALL THE UNION BUSINESS
MOAR PACIFIC! THE 2001 FLAGSHIP DESIGN IS PRETTY OK BUT I BOUGHT WAY MORE OF THE NFL VERSION BACK IN THE DAY CHASING MICHAEL VICK CARDS
SOME MORE JUNKBOX GOLD WITH A 1985 DONRUSS CARD OF DARRELL EVANS. A GUY WITH 400 HOMERS AND 1600 WALKS WOULD BE WAY MORE RESPECTED IN TODAY'S GAME. DARRELL ALSO BOOKENDED HIS CAREER IN ATLANTA
CROWN CARD OF DEAN PALMER. GOTTA SHOW OFF ALL THE PACIFIC
70S CARD IN THE JUNK BOX! I LOVE 1978 TOPPS BUT BECAUSE I LOVED IT SO MUCH I COMPLETED THE SET A FEW YEARS AGO AND NOW WHEN I SEE ONE I AUTOMATICALLY THINK 'GOT IT' AND MOVE ON LOOKING FOR 77S AND 75S. I AM TRYING TO BREAK OUT OF THIS HABIT AND APPRECIATE THE NICE CARDS FROM SETS I HAVE LIKE THIS ONE WITH A VERY HAPPY AURELIO RODRIGUEZ
SKYBOX MOLTEN METAL IS A WEIRD ONE BECAUSE IT WAS A HIGHER-END PRODUCT BUT LOOKED NOTHING LIKE THE COOL METAL UNIVERSE CARDS SO IT WAS A BIT OF A LETDOWN. UNLESS YOU PULLED ONE OF THE ACTUAL METAL CARDS OUT OF A PACK, WHICH WERE REALLY COOL. THESE CARDS ARE PRETTY COMMON IN DISCARDED BOXES OF TRASH SINCE THEY WERE HEAVILY RIPPED FOR THE INSERTS
DEAN MAKES ANOTHER APPEARANCE ON A FINEST CARD. I REALLY LIKED THIS DESIGN AND BOUGHT A LOT OF IT AND AM STILL NOT ANYWHERE CLOSE TO EVEN BEGINNING TO ATTEMPT TO COLLECT THIS SET. GETTING MY FINEST IN ORDER NEEDS TO BE A 2024 COLLECTING GOAL
YOU MAY BE HAPPY TO KNOW THAT I HAVE DECIDED TO NOT THROW ALL THE JUNK IN THE TRASH AND HAVE INSTEAD PUT THEM AWAY BACK IN THE BOX SO THEY DON'T CAUSE ANY NEW CATASTROPHES. SADLY ONCE AGAIN I NEED NONE OF THESE CARDS. HOWEVER I FOUND A FEW MORE SECOND CHANCE GOODIES TO SHOW OFF
A 1990 UPPER DECK CARD OF ALAN TRAMMELL MADE THE JUNK PILE BECAUSE AS MUCH AS MY BRAIN BLIPS BY 1978 TOPPS NOW IT DOESN'T EVEN PERCIEVE 1990 UD ANYMORE, A TONY CLARK ULTRA CARD TO REPLACE MY CURRENT WATERLOGGED ONE, JIM WALEWANDER, FOREVER THE DEAD MILKMEN GUY THANKS TO THE BACK OF A SCORE CARD AND THE LATE GREAT WILLIE HERNANDEZ. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND GEMS IF YOU JUST KEEP DIGGING
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My COMC order is scheduled to arrive around the same time, they're going to make that poor mailman work right when he thinks holiday season is done.
Ooooooohhhhh, thanks, that happy Aurelio Rodriguez card always makes me so happy whenever I see it because in 1978 I got to see the actual Detroit Tigers in the actual Tiger Stadium, all thanks to Aurelio Rodriguez. I somehow (probably, cuz, baseball cards) knew the answer to a trivia question on the radio was "Aurelio Rodriguez" and that won me tickets to a Tigers game. A big deal when the stadium was 5 hours away.
Then upon entering the mythical place in total awe, while standing in the concourse waiting to buy an actual MLB stadium Hot Dog, who should appear but: Aurelio Rodriguez! In uniform and everything, or, I confess, otherwise I wouldn't have known Aurelio Rodriguez if he was standing right next to me out of uniform, baseball cards, or no. For some reason, probably due to Tiger Stadium being like totally ancient and half broken-down by this point, Aurelio had to get to somewhere else in the stadium by walking past us fans. I stood there with my mouth open. A Major League Baseball Player.
Naturally this story is perfectly completed by a 1-0 Tigers victory over the hated White Sox that most fans felt was a pretty boring game. But I didn't, because the GWRBI was knocked in by, of course, Aurelio Rodriguez. I *it you not.
So I dreamed of Topps to get it's act together and put Aurelio Rodriguez in the Fan Favorites cards in Archives so I could supercollect the superfractor 1/1 of an autograph of my favorite Tiger as a Youth, but, alas, he got run over by a bus and killed when he was only 52, some 20-ish years ago, so there are no post-career Aurelio Rodriguez cards to super collect 7 different parallels of each one, which is really a bummer, for me, but probably, nobody else.
P.S. Also 1987 Topps had Traded? Hold up. I shoulda known but I had to get old and boring before I could handle those wood paneled cards I hated, back in the day. Now though....
P.P.S. I listen to Astros broadcasts just because I like listening to Steve Sparks. I don't even like the Astros and root against them the whole time. But Steve Sparks is Steve Sparks.
P.P.P.S. Keep an eye out for the Jim Morrison Tigers card. You thought he died in Paris, didn't you.
P.P.P.P.S. That's more Tigers cards than I have scanned in a way too long time. I gotta get 'clectin
I'm sure I've owned several copies of that Cecil Fielder/SD Chicken card over the years... but I doubt I kept any. I'm pretty sure I have a 1992 Upper Deck factory set laying around somewhere, but I'll need to add that card to either my COMC or Sportlot's cart so I can have one in my SD Chicken PC.
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