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.
It was fun reading the annual report. Does the Seinfeld guy have the initials GM?
ReplyDeleteI knew you'd be familiar with him.
DeleteI've spent most of this year weeding out even more from my collection, and while I can't say that all of my keepers would now fit into an 800ct box, I'm still very happy with where I've been able to get to. I'm pretty burned out with all things cards right now, but I can see myself going back through everything again sometime in the next year or two and pulling out even more.
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