It's Been A Minute

One of my favorite phrases in life.  

So much has happened over the past month and a half. Unfortunately, most of it involves me working, which nobody really wants to hear about. I am just going to skip ahead to the part where I talk about baseball cards and pretend that I still do this on a regular basis.  

I still have the time to purchase baseball cards, just not write about the baseball cards. I have narrowed this post down to 4 cards. There are some large stacks of cards sitting around my house at the moment and it's not because my wife repainted and refurnished my baseball card room in a day while I was at work.  

The stacks of cards are out of the frame, but I am actually going to make a post about the state and condition of my card room at the moment assuming I don't disappear for another six weeks.  

As I was saying, picking out just 4 cards was a bit of an accomplishment.  

The first three are all from the 2021 Topps Chrome Anniversary set.  Two former Durham Bulls players and a backup catcher for the Cardinals.  

First, former Durham Bulls player Greg Luzinski.  Great power hitter and a great signature too.  

Next up is Cardinals backup catcher Gene Tenace. Earlier in his career he was not a backup for the Oakland A's. Tenace was the 1972 World Series MVP. I do not have a Padres autograph of Tenace, but he was also a starting catcher in San Diego.  In 1980, Gene Tenace hit .222, but walked 30 more times than he struck out and had an on-base percentage of .399. 

Amazing. 

Last up on the Topps Chrome cards is former Durham Bulls player and current Minnesota Twins manager, Rocco Baldelli.  The green Rays jerseys were horrible.  

Last card is a Paul Goldschmidt autograph.  

He's been on the Cardinals a few years now, but I rarely buy any of his cards and I never post them when I do. Nothing too special, just usually cool looking parallels or base cards from when he played with the Diamondbacks. Nothing this nice.  

I Am So Sick Of 1952 Topps Remakes, Right?

We are all tired of 1952 Topps remakes, which is why I am really enjoying the 2021 Topps Chrome Anniversary set. I featured a few cards from the set a couple of posts ago. The cards came out a year late and are the latest in a seemingly endless carousel of 1952 Topps remakes/rehashes.  

When I see the 2021 Topps Chrome Anniversary cards on Ebay, COMC, or Facebook trade groups, I want to be mad that this is the 20th time (seemingly) used this design for a modern baseball card set. I just can't do it.  The cards look too nice.  

This Scott Rolen card is tremendous and I apologize for nothing.  

First, it's Chrome, so it's a shiny object. 

Second, it's signed by Scott Rolen, who should be in the Hall of Fame.  

Maybe I am drawing a blank here, but this is my favorite Cardinals card I have added to my collection in 2022.  I might as well go out and find a bunch of other autographs from this set.