7 Day Card Challenge... Day 3

It's Day 3 for me in the 7 Day Card Challenge, and today it's My Favorite Football Card.

While I've never been much of a football card collector, I have managed to acquire my fair share of gridiron cards.

1955 Topps All-American #35 Tom Harmon

Last October 17th I featured Tom and this card for "Football Card Friday" on the blog.

Football Card Friday/ October 17, 2019. 


My favorite football cards are those of former Michigan Football players, Detroit Lions players, as well as a few players from other college and NFL teams that I like.


🏈 You're probably surprised that I didn't pick a Tom Brady card today.

I do have a favorite card if I had chose to go that way, but I've loved this Harmon card since I got it in the 1980s, and, after all, he's the 1940 Heisman Trophy winner, and, is the greatest Wolverine to ever play in Ann Arbor.

Have a great week, and thanks so much for reading my blog today.

Play Ball...oh, wait... Go BLUE!

💛💙🏈💛💙🏈💛💙🏈💛💙🏈

A&G Minis... Vote and a Contest

Our buddy Nachos Grande has a awesome contest involving his favorite set of cards, Allen & Ginter.


From Prrsidents, War heroes, to ball players, stamps, flowers, you name it, the A&G Minis are always interesting.


My favorite sets that I've seen are Revolutionary War cards, as well as cards of Sailors and, of course, baseball players.

I've always been intrigued by the tiny inserts, and I'm hoping, as a ex- US Navy guy,  to get some of the cool looking Sailor cards.



Make sure to head to the link above for all the contest details...Its sure to be lots of fun!

Here's a A&G  site to check out some of the cards.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, and, as always... PLAY BALL!

7 Day Card Challenge-Day 2

Day 2 of Cardpocalypse 7 Day Card Challenge is a card (any sport), with a unique photo.

2020 Topps Series 1 had some cool baseball cards, and a few unique images.

My favorite of those unique cards...and very cool baseball cards was actually a card that I posted about back on March 24th.

There's been a lot of great cards in 2020, but, a little over 2 months after that post, the Travis Demeritt card is still, to me, the Topps Card of the Year...so far.

See y'all again tomorrow for Day 3... Play Ball! ⚾

7 Day Card Challenge- Day 1

Even though I saw the original post, I'm way, way late in starting  the 7 Day Trading Card Challenge, posted by Cardpocalypse.

Day 1- Favorite card acquired during quarantine.


In three+ months of quarantine I was able to collect quite a few cards, and picking a pair of special cards.

For the most part I haven't been a fan of the Topps Project 2020 cards, but when I saw this one I knew I'd get it.

I'm too young to have seen Koufax pitch (I was only 6 when he retired after the 1966 season), but he's still one of my All-Time favorite big league pitchers.


After I started this post I received my 2nd Koufax card of Project 2020.

Pictures are terrific, but they don't come close to having this awesome Koufax card in my hand.

(Took these images off ye olde Internet because my hands are crap and I can't seem to get a good picture.)


See you tomorrow for my Day 2 post.

Play Ball! ⚾

Football Card Friday... Happy 50th Desmond Howard.

Today's Football Card Friday! celebrates the 50th Birthday of 1991 Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard.

This 1992 Classic is one of the best looking football cards of my lifetime... Go BLUE! 



I was very excited to collect Desmond's football cards after his amazing Junior year at Michigan, and I did my best to collect as many as I could.

Through his decade plus in the NFL, Desmond was an average player, who had his moments, and in one year in Green Bay, in 1996, he had his career year.

No matter what, being a 1st Team All-American, Heisman winner, and Super Bowl Champion and Super Bowl MVP  is a pretty good football career. 

Happy  💛 Birthday 💙 Desmond! 🏈🎁

Go BLUE!

Happy Baseball Mom's Day!

Shout out to all the great Mom's that made are baseball dreams come true.

Happy Baseball Mom's Day! ⚾🎉

Tigers Card Tuesday... Hal Newhouser

I'm writing this very late, so I'm digital with today's Tigers Card Tuesday.


The Topps BUNT App provides this week's card with Tigers Hall of Fame pitcher, "Prince Hal" Newhouser.

The card is part of the "Southpaws" series on the app, which commences with a Babe Ruth Award Card.

I was hoping that the Tigers player in this set would be Matt Boyd, or Mickey Lolich, but I really like that they used the image of the 2 -time American League MVP.


If you're on BUNT, please follow me.

Have a great week, and thanks for taking part of your day on my blog.


Play Ball!🐯 ⚾

Tigers Card Tuesday: 1975 Topps Cards

The 1975 Topps Baseball Card set is one of the best sets of cards produced, and is the basis for this week's Tigers Card Tuesday. 

The Tigers cards in the set include Willie Horton, Mickey Stanley, John Hiller, Mickey Lolich, and, of course, Bill Freehan.

The great Al Kaline had this awesome card in the '75 Topps Set.

3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Kaline collected his 3,000th base hit in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, on September 24, 1974.

I've been competing in a contest over on Twitter involving the entire '75 Topps set, and as I saw the cards come up, I realized that I was missing some of the Tigers cards.

Over the last 40 years I've moved many times, and have had the cards in storage, and I guess they've gotten lost.

 ▶️  I also came across this post on the 1975 set from Red Sox fan Section 36.

There's so many great cards in the 1975 set, including this famous RC.

When I played Little League baseball in the early '70s, I knew Leon Roberts brother, Mark, who also went to Portage Northern High School (Leon's Alma Mater) with me.

👀 Leon also played college baseball at the University of Michigan, so, he hits the fan trifecta, Portage Northern,  Michigan, and the Tigers.

I love talking about card from my childhood as a baseball fan and card collector, it makes me happy, and at my age, that's a good thing

🐯 What's your favorite card, or cards, from the '75 set? 

➡️ Just leave a comment below.

Appreciate you taking the time to read this post.

Play Ball! 🐯⚾

The Boyd Binder- First Relic Card

Today is a memorable day in my history of collecting Detroit Tigers cards.


Today's mail brought me my first Relic Card of my favorite Lefty pitcher, Matthew Boyd.

As soon as I saw the checklist of this year's Topps Series 1, and that Boyd was getting his first Relic card I was very excited, and, when I opened up the pwe, well, I felt like a little boy again, and not the 60 year old man that I am today.


It is a little sad though, because there's no games to watch the Tigers play, or to watch Boyd pitch, but I know that eventually, things will get back to normal.

My picture taking isn't very good, and I have no scanner, so I always try and find a picture from ye olde Internet, as I posted above.

Here's my Matthew Boyd 2020 Series One Relic Card that I received today.

Have a great day, thanks for taking the time to read this post...oh, and, as always...
Play Ball! ⚾

Happy Baseball Birthday... Miguel Cabrera

Just a quick post to wish a Happy Baseball Birthday! to the great Miguel Cabrera.

I LOVE cards of Tigers players wearing the old Detroit Stars uniforms! 


It's April 18th, and we were supposed to be watching the 20th baseball game of 2020 with the slim downed Miggy on the road to 500 HRs and 3,000 hits.

Currently, Miggy sets at 477 home runs, and 2, 815 career base hits.

I hope this Coronavirus (Covid-19) gets beaten down so we can all get back to a sense of normality, including watching the great game of baseball.


Be smart, be safe!

Happy Baseball Birthday! Miggy.... Play Ball 🐯⚾