Happy National Card Collectors Convention Week (to all who celebrate). I'm not going but am hoping to experience the event vicariously through some of your own accounts. I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys find!
At some future point I hope to make it out there, but just can't bring myself to stomach the travel expenses. While I'll go overboard on a vacation or trip to attend some unrelated event, when it comes to baseball cards I keep mentally equating the associated costs with the cards I could acquire for the same price. Attend an awesome show? Yes! Do it instead of picking up a low grade 1935 Goudey Babe Ruth or a '52 Topps Eddie Mathews rookie? Absolutely not! I've never been to the National and do not have any Ruth cards, so I guess this is all just theoretical anyway.
It's been a busy month, and I must confess I did zero baseball related writing until penning this post tonight. Sure, there were five new card profiles posted to CardBoredom, but these were actually typed up and scheduled for publication much earlier. I've got a Tom Glavine post kicking around but just haven't found the energy to fully lock down my thoughts. That will be taken care of soon enough, so I'll leave you with that preview.
July saw another 1% of the 1952 Topps checklist profiled. I finally finished the second series (cards #81-130). While no major rookie cards appear in the second series, the underappreciated debut of a defensive wizard shows up in the third series. Another cardboard resident of the third series, purportedly a Cincinnati Reds pitcher, showed up in my mailbox with a rather unique odor to it. Johnny Groth is in the 1,000 Hits Club, for whatever that's worth.
They say it is theoretically possible to bend time if you travel fast enough. The Refractor countdown continues with a player who was so fast that he erased home runs, possibly killing off more homers than he hit himself. Alex Cole just might have a claim to have generated a net negative number of dingers.
The #9 on Hiller's card is an interesting puzzle. Most of his Yankee career was 1948 was George McQuinn. McQuinn, Keller and Etten all had substantially better careers than Hiller, and were very well known at the time. Keller is still a familiar name to most Yankee fans today. Baseball Almanac says Aaron Robinson was also an option for 1946.
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