The Great 1965 Topps Project
Monday, March 11, 2013

#174 Joe Jay

›
I'm certain of three things in looking at this card: 1) With six letters total, Joe Jay has the shortest name of any player in the 196...
2 comments:
Friday, March 08, 2013

#163 John Briggs

›
One of the sad by-products of my own disorganization is that I can't track down the source of this card. If you sent me John Briggs, d...
Monday, March 04, 2013

#573 Red Sox Rookie Stars: Jim Lonborg, Mike Ryan, Bill Schlesinger, and Jerry Moses

›
Right. So I had a grand, heartfelt farewell address written for this, the last card to be posted to The Great 1965 Topps Project. Then I a...
1 comment:
Friday, February 15, 2013

#526 Athletics Rookie Stars: Rene Lachemann, Johnny Odom, Skip Lockwood, and Jim Hunter

›
Yikes! The way I've been procrastinating on these last few posts, you'd think that I was drawing things out so that the blog would...
6 comments:
Saturday, December 08, 2012

#461 Braves Rookie Stars: Clay Carroll and Phil Niekro

›
Yikes. A three-month hiatus in the midst of posting the last few cards of the set is bad form on my part. But some of you have hung around...
7 comments:
Friday, September 07, 2012

#350 Mickey Mantle

›
Well, what have we here? The Final Four in my nearly five-year set collecting journey all came from Max of the Starting Nine blog. That s...
3 comments:
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

#581 NL Rookie Stars: Tony Perez, Kevin Collins, and Dave Ricketts

›
As you can see from the status of my set counter on the left side of the blog, I have completed this set, in a bit under five years! That ...
2 comments:
Thursday, June 21, 2012

#2 NL Batting Leaders: Roberto Clemente, Rico Carty, and Hank Aaron

›
Whoops! I just realized that I never posted the most recent addition to my set, which is this fine card from Greg Mader. Greg sent it as p...
8 comments:
Monday, April 09, 2012

#550 Mel Stottlemyre

›
I'm a few weeks overdue with this post, but getting there is half the fun. Our old friend Bob, a.k.a. the Commish, sent me this lovely...
2 comments:
Thursday, February 16, 2012

#510 Ernie Banks

›
Back again so soon. Ed's dragging me to the finish line on this project, in this case spotting a pretty well-conditioned copy of this ...
6 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

The Back of My Card

My photo
Kevin
I can remember playing with baseball cards as a toddler, but I actually started collecting them when I was ten. Now I'm an adult looking for an outlet to talk about my hobby without receiving blank stares in return. You can contact me thusly.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.