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first ballot tuesday june 4 2013 chipper jones could hit upon chipper jones retirement elias sports bureau brought us this gem of a list these five players are the only ones to accumulate a 300 400 500 slash line with 500 doubles 450 home runs 1500 walks i love the inference that chipper jones belongs in this group of players as you can see the slash line had to be dramatically lowered to accommodate chipper s inclusion this is not to say chipper isn t a hall of famer in his own right but we are talking about players whom are at the extreme elite hitter level the average slash of these four players are 339 455 628 over a career that spans 20 seasons in chipper s defense he played in an era with an international talent pool with specialized pitcher s throwing in the mid 90s i love the 1994 ultra set design but when it came to the horizontal cards they really screwed up by not putting the player s name across the bottom a very lazy artistic choice with the strike looming and then taking place during 1994 baseball cards became a secondary thought 1994 marks the end of the high water mark in baseball cards with the pack prices inflated and literally hundreds of products to chose from the market crushed under its own weight posted by first ballot at 6 04 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday january 30 2013 1997 leaf drugs for suckcess today mlb kept reminding everyone that they have the toughest drug policy in north america however tabloid journalists brought the latest debacle to us not failed drug tests perhaps these new events will have mlb institute lifetime bans for offenders would baseball suffer if alex rodriguez nelson cruz and gio gonzalez were no longer playing anyhow leaf in 1997 decided to make a gimmick card out of nylon material a little known fact nylon is not a chemical name for the material made it is a compound name made up of the corporate offices of dupont which were located in new york and london dress for success was an 18 card insert set of the who s who of baseball actually leaf went out on a limb with card 14 brian jordan each card was serial numbered to 3500 i don t know how many came pre series 1 box but i d guess 2 per box the cards have a nice feel to them by the late 1990s there were literally hundreds of insert sets and these cool cards lost in the shuffle posted by first ballot at 1 07 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday january 25 2013 to peel or not to peel starting with 1995 finest topps decided to put a protective coating sticker over the front surface of the card what reason you ask for no reason i answer the ultra violet coating that had been applied to premium cards when not fully dried had tended to make the card stick together instead of drying the cards properly topps decided to apply a sticker now the purist will tell you that the sticker is now part of the card but the practical collector will tell you that the sticker is nothing more than part of the pack an individual wrapper when it comes to grading it is best to remove the sticker because bgs and psa will consider the sticker part of the surface the problem with that is that the stickers then to be filled with minor air bubbles the other reason to remove is in terms of value the ebay market has not put any premium on cards with peel intact about the card this 1995 finest cal ripken is the same card with the peel and without i will be subbing this in the future it appears to be in gem mint condition posted by first ballot at 12 22 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday january 19 2013 like a steam locomotive rolling down the track posted by first ballot at 11 50 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 15 2013 but there is no joy in mudville written plainly in exodus 23 2 it states you must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing by all accounts barry bonds stayed away from performance enhancing drug usage until 1999 he followed lockstep with the rest of the juiced crowd and threw away his reputation and legacy by destroying the record book for wads and wads of cash i was fortunate to have followed donnie baseball in his prime daily and barry bonds was still the best player i ever watched play the game when i look back on bonds there is nothing that you can point to that makes you happy anymore mattingly on the other hand has his stature intact when mcgwire and sosa where chasing maris i remember people telling me thank god it s not bonds that s because his lifelong mercurial angry black man persona made it impossible to root for him outside of pittsburgh and san francisco at the time bonds was still playing the game on his natural ability which were still light years ahead of everyone not named junior griffey but even griffey didn t take his plate appearances as deadly serious as bonds bonds had the superior baseball intellect along with the superior talent base in 2004 barry bonds was walked 232 times officially he was intentionally walked 120 timesand with guys pitching to him carefully he still managed to hit 362 with 45 home runs even if an extremely conservative 25 of the league was using peds no one comes close to bonds accomplishments it can t possibly be all attributed to a drug but that is the narrative history will repeat as it should be poor barry bonds he followed the wrong crowd about the card in the entire barry bonds baseball collection this one stands because he allowed himself to be photographed others have described that scenario as pulling teeth i love the photo but i don t understand the composition why did topps leave some much negative space above his head posted by first ballot at 3 51 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday january 9 2013 the hall of fame preserving revisionist history well i guess i wasn t watching legendary players the past twenty years when mark mcgwire revealed his usage of androstenedione he had already hit 53 home runs for a quick refresher andro was banned by the nfl ncaa and the ioc but was allowed by mlb at this point all the suspicions were confirmed mark mcgwire was a steroid user but did anyone care he went on to blast 17 more home runs to put america into a baseball frenzy he wasn t breaking any rules so everyone enjoyed the spectacular displays of absolute freakish hitting it wasn t until six years later when jose canseco pulled back the curtain to reveal his own self as the great and powerful wizard of steroids that people decided that the ride wasn t all that fun because we ve been duped but where is the same outrage concerning the corrupt political and financial systems with that being said the hall of fame has lost its sense of humor today isn t this the same museum that houses phil rizzuto the hall of fame is a museum dedicated to a game it s not a place of judgment steroids warped the record books but not the wins and losses babe ruth warped the record books just as much by refusing to play against the very best black ball players so today we discovered there is a group of men who write about baseball for a living that have decided to right a wrong by trying to cover up their own error of not taking a stand against these drugs in the first place here is a link to a sports illustrated article by tom verducci it s the absolute epitome of turning a blind eye to steroid use it directly celebrates it and shows it being the cause of the greatness mr verducci never once mentions there is something odd about these circumstances it comes complete with the classic and laughable cover up of protein shakes posted by first ballot at 10 27 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday september 15 2012 hank beer barrel man 1976 topps 550 is hank aaron s last base card from his playing days hank made it known he was retiring so topps didn t make him a base card in 1977 topps wanted to be topical more than a year in review but hank should have had a tribute card in 1977 beer barrel man was the first logo used by the milwaukee brewers originally used by the defunct brewers minor league team this gem was brought back by bud selig when he purchased the seattle pilots and moved the team into milwaukee this slab sold for 192 60 on an ebay auction i m assuming the person is going to crack it out sub it to psa but chances are this card was already housed in a psa 9 slab hoping to get 9 5 from bgs about the card a very simple design that incorporated one aspect of the teams color it also featured a sketch of a player representing the position this idea was borrowed from the 1973 set a great improvement to this set would have been to use another photo instead of the drawing and the team wordmark logo posted by first ballot at 1 07 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to 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