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1997 Pinnacle X-Press: the X-Men of Summer
Hey, remember the ‘90’s? When everything was X-treme and X-citing and X-plosive and nearly every product or event figured out a way to feature a big, red, bleeding X that looked like it had been...
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The Thin Red Line: 2010 Bowman and Bowman Chrome
In terms of Bowman sets from this year, Griffey only appeared in two: Bowman flagship and Chrome. The other Bowman sets, Platinum, Sterling, and Picks & Prospects, included no Griffeys at all; and...
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So That Happened...
There it is: the plaque we’ve waited over 20 years to see. This past weekend I, like so many other Griffey fans across the world, watched from home as Junior gave the speech he was predicted to give...
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1994 Ultra: Ultra Lite
1994 is the last of the “simple” Ultra sets. After this came parallels and paralleled inserts with insertion ratios astronomical by early-90’s standards. Obviously things got pretty hairy for big-name...
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The 20-Year Checklist: 7th Inning Stretch Update
Some of you may remember I began a difficult project last year with a very precise deadline. I challenged myself to complete the once-impossible-seeming Beckett Ken Griffey, Jr. Tribute checklist from...
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My New Card Room: One Year Later
A year ago this month I had the unique opportunity to turn a whole room into my own collecting dungeon/office/man cave. Now that a year has passed, here is a quick update on how that room has...
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1998 Upper Deck UD3: It's Complicated
In 1998 just about every card company tried in their own way to redefine the “set” with new configurations and the introduction of extremely complicated tiered base sets. Donruss did it with Preferred,...
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2001 Fleer Tradition: F-Bomb Ahead
When the vintage nouveau explosion arrived in the early 2000’s, all brands that weren’t Topps suddenly had a decision to make: openly steal Topps’ vintage designs or create new designs that only borrow...
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Stop the Presses: 2002 Fleer Box Score
Baseball is hardly ever televised in my hometown. We don’t have an MLB team in New Orleans, and the closest one to us never brought locals any excitement, even in the few-and-far-between good years....
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2010 Finest: 18 Years Later, Still the Finest
Just three months before Griffey would leave MLB forever he would get his final Finest base card. He would make into a few inserts here and there in the following years as well as a super fun, 10-card,...
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The Great Griffey Frankenset: Page 18
Welcome to Page 18 of the Great Griffey Frankenset!If you're not familiar with the idea of a frankenset, it is a customized set of cards properly sequenced by card number that all tie into a connecting...
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2006 Fleer Episode 7: The Fleerce Awakens
In 2004 Upper Deck offered to buy the Fleer company for 25 million dollars. Fleer, who had been in financial trouble in the years leading up to the offer, thought their business was on the verge of a...
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Introducing the Griffey Generosity Project
On Tuesday I started a project that is now more or less completely out of my hands. Simply put: I mailed a box containing 500 Griffey cards to a fellow Griffey collector along with a note containing...
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The Best Griffey Acquisitions of 2016 Part 1: #21-30
I went into 2016 expecting two things to happen: First, I thought that, despite becoming a new Dad, I would still have plenty of time to blog. I mean, the boy’s gotta sleep sometime, right?I was wrong....
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CAVE!
I’m pretty sure I already did one of these in 2016, but here is another because CONTEST!My card cave is more of an everything cave. I collect a lot of different things, so in addition to being a...
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The Best Griffey Acquisitions of 2016 Part 2: #11-20
I more than doubled the number of Griffey autos I have this year from 13 to 28, and I even managed to add a few of the pre-2000 variety which tend to be among the most sought-after. Get used to seeing...
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The Best Griffey Acquisitions of 2016 Part 3: The Top Ten
No, there are no signed 19”x25” Upper Deck giveaway monsters, legendary ’93 Finest refractors, or Mickey Mantle autographs to be found in the Top 10 this year, but this was still one of the best years...
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Look What the Cat Dragged In - a State of the Blog Post
Sorry it’s been so long, fellas. I do miss ya. I miss blogging, trading, and cardboard in general. A few other things I miss are alcohol, staying up past midnight, cursing openly, sleeping past 6, and...
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My Best Griffey Acquisitions of 2016: The Runners-Up
[Note: I cut this list short because I want to post these great cards but never had the time to finish it as I originally planned. Still, here's most of what was to be the runners-up post for best...
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1996 Ultra is Not Your Friend
It’s not the photography or card design or anything obvious that makes this set so whack-a-doodle – it’s one thing: the Gold Medallion parallel. This set is impossible to talk about at all without that...
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