It's that time, again
Why I selected it: I'm collecting Johnny Evers cards now. Because I have to eventually Man Up and buy the ultimate Johnny Evers card - the t206. Because I have Tinkers, and Chance. So this will help keep the motivation inching forward.
Plus this card makes me wonder - why doesn't Panini do this, like, all the time? & by "this" I mean just print a portrait card, with the design conveniently covering the logo they aren't allowed to print. Works, perfectly.
Why I selected it: I love Baseball Cards with real live Trees on them. But this won't go with the "Trees" collection, which is still sadly quite small. I also collect oneil cruz Baseball Cards. I think I will easily make it to 9 of his cards with the good ole RC logo; scoring this one in the 91¢ box will help. And, odds I would ever purchase a whole "box" of Topps Archives Snapshots Baseball Cards? Zero.
Why I selected it: How many ways do I love this card? Let me count the ways:
It's a Horizontal card.
It's not a Detroit Tigers card, it's a Detroit Stars card.
It's a Foil card.
Foil cards look great, in-scan. Check out those little glowing stars on a Detroit Stars card. Ace.
That's it. 4 ways.
Why I selected it: I collect Wade Boggs cards, sort of. I only collect Wade Boggs, Sad cards. Wade Sad, lotsa sometimes, on Baseball Cards. The "Mojo" pattern makes this whole card look sad and gloomy. Perfect.
Why I selected it: This card is "Fire." See all those little graphical flames on it? That proves this card is "Fire." Further proof is the serial number stamped on it. That means this card is not only "Fire," but is also "Money." 91¢ is "Money." I could probably also easily fool someone into thinking it includes a battle-tested Game-Worn, actual swatch from Omar's compression sleeve there in that big blue rectangle, which otherwise, well, why is that big blue rectangle there, anyway?
Fortunately, Omar Narvaez, In Action, makes it (kinda? a little? part-way) easy to forget that big blue rectangle, and since I collect Omar Narvaez cards, I needed one that was "Fire," like this one. Panini brings the heat, particularly when they don't even have to lift the airbrush, for a change.
Omar signed a 2025 Minor League deal the other day, so there might could be yet one more Omar Narvaez Baseball Card, in the future.
Why I selected it: Didja notice this Baseball Card doesn't have a "35th Anniversary" stamp on it? That's because this is an actual 1985 Topps Baseball Card, not a re-enactment. They still sell these, sometimes, down at the LCS, if you look long enough.
This card has it all. The mustard melting sorta triangle, the Swingin' Friar, and most importantly, how could you collect Sunglasses Cards without this one?
Why I selected it: Hey, look, the Dollar Box finally ran out of 2022 and 2023 Baseball Cards for me. This will be fun. Neon Prisms? Oh, yeah.
Why I selected it: Not a Prism, but almost certainly the 2024 Topps Chrome Pink Horizontal Champion, in my house. Arm Cards are still weird, though.
Why I selected it: I'm still waiting for an officially checklist announced "Powder Blue Parallel." Or at least a nice run of inserts with such a title. What's taking so long? The Topps Eye clearly loves the Powder Blue. At least in 2024, there is Neon Powder Blue striping, which is real cool time.
This is a "Royal Blue" parallel, sometimes called a Royal Blue "retail" parallel, because it doesn't appear in the Hobby Boxes for the rich kids. Just the cards sold at the Big Box stores for us regular, every day collectors continually funneling our money into the system.
So this one might become the Blue Jays 2024 Topps Baseball delegate to the Powder Blue Collection. Because I like Powder Blue Catcher gear in particular, and "Royal" blue = classy, particularly on The Neon. Although I am not fat, I like it that Baseball Players are allowed to be.
Bonus Round
Why I selected it: This is a "Bubble Gum, In Action" Baseball Card. And those are cool. I'm going to throw you out - while I'm blowing a Bubble. That's how slow you run, slugger.
It is only kinda-sorta apparent in the scan, but this is the 2024 Topps Chrome card for Trea Turner. So for the Bubble Gum, In Action collection, I might as well Oooohhh, Shiny it, when I can.
Why I selected it: Probably because of a whole other card, one I have already posted:
At the simplest level, I like Horizontal "Sliding" cards quite a bit. But when I came across the 2024 Chrome Verdugo, I was simply perplexed by Topps just randomly using a different image for the Chrome, as compared to the "base."
Why doesn't Topps do this in all the various Topps Baseball styled sets, routinely?
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