This month I profiled three vintage cards at CardBoredom. I took a look at the crossover between Japanese baseball and the 1952 Topps checklist. I explored parallels between J.R. Richard and a New York Giants pitcher appearing among the high numbers in '52 Topps. There was even a glimpse into how Johnny "Hippity" Hopp got his nickname more than a decade prior to appearing in the '49 Leaf checklist.
The fun part for me this week was writing the annual retrospective of how my collection changed over the course of the year. You'll find the full details here, including the recent development of reducing the size of my collection to the point where it could all fit in an 800-count box if I were to remove the many layers of plastic encasing the cards. I speared my white whale, threw a slabbed side quest overboard, and picked up some fantastic cards that had yet to make an appearance anywhere else.
