Tarik Skubal- 2024 Cy Young Award Winner

 UNANIMOUS! 

Tarik Skubal received all 30 first place votes in the 2024 Cy Young Award balloting the Baseball Writers Association of America. 

The Ballots.

🐅⚾️ Skubal joins the elite of Tigers pitchers to win the Cy Young, joining Denny McLain (1968/1969- Co- Mike Cuellar), Willie Hernandez (1984), Justin Verlander (2011), and Max Scherzer (2013).

11 Days Of Freehan- Day 3

11 Days of Freehan 

Day 3

Bill hit exactly 200 home runs in his 15 year big league career, 100 at Tiger Stadium & 100 on the road.

Happy Baseball Birthday- Tarik Skubal

A very special Happy Baseball Birthday! post to honor Detroit Tigers LHP Tarik Skubal, who is celebrating turning 28.

🐅⚾️ One of the greatest seasons for a Tigers pitcher, Tarik won the American League Pitching Triple Crown, winning 1️⃣8️⃣ games, striking out 2️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ batters, and leading the league w/ a 2️⃣.3️⃣9️⃣ ERA.

🐅⚾️ Hopefully it will be a very special Birthday for Tarik later today when he's announced as the American League Cy Young Award Winner.

11 Days of Freehan- Day 2

 11 Days of Freehan 

Day 2

#11DaysofFreehan  #Freehan83 on my TwitterX page. ( @freehan11 )

11 Days of Freehan

11 Days of Freehan 

Day 1.

Tigers Card Tuesday- 2024 Topps Chrome Cosmic Riley Greene

My first Topps Chrome Cosmic card had arrived, and, it's Riley Greene, of course.

Happy Baseball Birthday- "Oil Can " Boyd is 65 today!

A very special Happy Baseball Birthday! to former big league pitcher, Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, who's 65 today! 

⚾️ "Oil Can" has a prominent place in the ever growing Boyd Binder, second only to Matthew Boyd in the amount of cards for a player with BOYD in their name. 

👉 Because the binder with his cards are in storage, the images on this post are all from Trading Card DaDatabase.

🎂🎁🥳 Have a great day, Mr. Boyd, we love you and we appreciate you!

Play BALL! 🪔🛢⚾️

ALDS Game 1 Starter- Tyler Horton

 I have no Tyler Holton baseball cards, and, that needs to change. 

Hopefully, Tyler will be in Topps update, or, in 2025 Topps Series One. 

Tigers at the Guardians, 1 pm this afternoon. 

Go Tigers, and, remember, as always,  Play BALL! 🐅⚾️

Football Card Friday- Greg Landry (1946-2024)

Tigers Card Tuesday- Tarik Skubal / Game 1

It's a very special day as my beloved Detroit Tigers take on the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the American League Wild Card Series.

     Tigers Card Tuesday!           2024 Topps NOW                                  #773

🏆 Tarik Skubal, the American League Triple Crown Pitching winner for 2024 takes the ball for first Tigers playoff game since 2014.

     2024 Topps NOW 

          Detroit Tigers

                  #765

Games are all on ABC at 2:30 pm Eastern time. 

Have a great day, and, Go Tigers! 🐅⚾️

Happg Baseball Birthday! Riley Greene

A special Happy Baseball Birthday! post this Saturday morning to Detroit Tigers left fielder, Riley Greene, who's 24 years young today. 

The former #1 pick in the draft in 2018, Riley is having his best season so far, leading the Tigers to a wild card playoff berth this year. 

Have a great Saturday! 

Tigers Card Tuesday- Mr. Tiger from Cigar Box Cards

This week's Tigers Card Tuesday! is a variation of the 1950s Red Man cards.

🐅⚾️ This card of Detroit Tigers great Al Kaline was made by Cigar Box Cards, and cost me $5.00

⚾️ Such great work done, as always, go and give him a follow on Twitter/X.  

Ya'll have a great week...Play BALL! 

Tigers Card Tuesday- Topps Living Set- Sparky Anderson

Before I forget and today gets completely away from me, here's this week's post for Tigers Card Tuesday! 

Topps Living Set Card #738

Sparky Anderson 

Artist Jared Kelly. 

Jared's Website

Sparky was a great manager, taking the Tigers from being a terrible club in the mid-late 1970s, to a World Series Champion in 1984.

I absolutely love the Living Set, and I have all 22 Detroit Tigers cards that have been issued.

Thanks for taking time out of your day to read this post, it's much appreciated. 

Have a terrific rest of your week...Play BALL! 🐅⚾️

Blogger National 2024

Well, it's time again for Cards Over Coffee's annual Blogger Bat Around for 2024.

Even though I live between both Cleveland and Chicago, I haven't been able to get to any of the most recent Nationals.

👉 My last National is still the one in Atlanta in the 1990s. 

🐅⚾️ The Detroit Tigers had two All-Stars this season, and, both actually played in the 5-3 American League victory.

⭐️ LHP Tarik Skubal pitched a 1-2-3 2nd inning in his 1st ASG.

⭐️ Outfielder Riley Greene was 0-2, but did make a terrific play in left field in his 1st ASG. 

⭐️ Riley is my favorite baseball player and I try to collect as many of his cards as possible. 

My latest Riley card is easily the coolest of all his cards in my collection. 

2023 Topps Chrome Ultra Violet

 All Stars

#UV-13 Detroit Tigers 

I have a lot of Tarik's card also... this just might be my favorite. 

2022 Topps Archives #35 Tarik Skubal

🤔 Are yout going to tye National this weekend?

If not, and you're a blogger, make sure to do the Bat Around, I look forward to reading them all. 

Hope ya'll are doing well. 

Play BALL!  ⚾️ 

Tigers Card Tuesday-Gio Urshela Walk-Off

Got to go to Comerica Park on Saturday to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers play my Detroit Tigers.

🐅⚾️ The Tigers trailed the Dodgers by 5 runs (9-4) entering the bottom of the 9th.

Detroit tied the game up in an amazing comeback finished off my a Colt Keith 2-run HR w/ 2-outs to get the game to extra innings. 

Then, after a great double play to retire LA, Gio Urshela, w/ the Dodgers implementing the 6 infielder alignment, hit a 2-run HR to finish off an amazing comeback for the Tigers. 

        2024 Topps NOW 

        #414 Gio Urshela 

💙💜💛 Also got a cool color variation from a BUNT trade.

Saturday was so much fun, and I hope to make it back go the Motor City for another fame this season.

🤔 Have you been to a big league game this year?

👉 Let me know in the comments. 

As always, thanks do much for taking part of your day to check out my blog, it's much appreciated!

Play BALL! ⚾️

Tigers Card Tuesday- 2024 All-Star Riley Greene

Riley Greene will represent the Detroit Tigers is next Tuesdays All-Star Game in Arlington, Texas. 

Play Ball! 🐅⚾️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Saturday Stuff, June 15, 2024

I'm hoping that I can do a Saturday Stuff post each week...let's start with what's happening today.

👉 Today's Immaculate Grid was a really good one, as I was able to use nine different Tigers players.

Score of 23, pretty good.

🐅⚾️ Anytime I can use Matthew Boyd and Bill Freehan together is always a good thing.

👉 Working on the never ending job of getting as many cards into binders as I possibly can.

I'm not always healthy enough to give my collection the attention it deserves, but I try my best. 

🐅⚾️ As I'm writing this I'm watching the Tigers game in Houston today. 

👉Former Tigers starter and future HOFer, Justin Verlander, was suppose to start for the Astros today, but was scratched due to neck tightness.

👉 It's 10-0 Tigers, bottom of the 3rd, and my favorite player, Riley Greene, is 3-3, w/ 2 HRs and 5 RBI! 

                  2024 Topps Series 1   

                    Holiday/Eater       

                #274   Riley Greene 

🐅⚾️ I'm trying to keep up with all of Riley's cards, but, it isn't exactly easy.

👉 Tigers win, Riley w/ a career high 4 hits and 6 RBI game! 

⏰️ Well, as usual, got distracted with other things, such as dinner, watching a Hallmark movie w/ my wife, and posting on TweetX etc,and playing some games on my phone.

👉 Do any of you play the Immaculate Grids?

Feel free to comment on how your weekend is going, and what, of any Immaculate Grids that you play each day.

👪 Hope all of you amazing Dad's out there have a terrific Happy Father's Day! 

Oh, and, of course, Play BALL! ⚾️

Tigers Card Tuesday- Matthew Boyd

As we all head into a long summer baseball games, its the final May post of Tigers Card Tuesday! 

                 🐅⚾️ #yeahBOYD 

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👉 2020 Topps CHROME Sapphire 

                  #128 Matthew Boyd 

                             #2/10

👉 232 different Matthew Boyd baseball cards logged onto TCDB! 

👀👇👀👇👀👇👀👇👀👇👀👇👀👇

✏️ Just a reminder that my Blog Bat Around post from last week is still there, and I hope you join in. 

Thanks for taking time out of your day to stop by and read my blog...appreciate ya'll...and, as always..

...Play BALL! ⚾️ 

Fun Card Friday- Not so fun

Getting hit in the face by a baseball traveling 110 mph sure can't be fun, however, it can lead to a post for Fun Card Friday!

Liz McGuire, a young Toronto Blue Jays fan, was hit in the face by a Bo Bichette baseball last Friday, May 17th.

1️⃣1️⃣0️⃣- Topps produced exactly 110 Topps NOW of the above card, and sent all of them to Lizz.

She has put a few of the cards up for auction, w/ some of the proceeds going to Holland Bloorview Childrens Hospital

You can bid here... Liz McGuire Topps NOW Card.

😊 Topps takes a lot of grief for some if the things they do, and yet, they find a way sometimes to just do a cool thing like this...which is, for myself, is part of why collecting cards is FUN!

💙💙 Here's hoping that Liz recovers quickly and can get back to going to Blue Jays games soon.

😊 As always, thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read my blog,  appreciate ya'll very much!

Oh, and, as always, Play BALL! ⚾️

Tigers Card Tuesday/Blog Bat Around- The Last Base Card

Going through some cards on Monday while doing much needed binder work, I came across this 1977 Topps that had found it's way into a small box.

      Happy Tigers Card Tuesday! 

🐅⚾️ In 1977, even though he'd already retired from a 15 year big league career, Topps did issue Bill Freehan a card, his final base card.

       1977 Topps #22 Bill Freehan 

               1️⃣9️⃣6️⃣3️⃣➖️1️⃣9️⃣7️⃣7️⃣

       My Top 10 Bill Freehan Cards.

👉 In 1976, the 34 year old Freehan, my All-Time favorite ballplayer, played in just 71 games, batting .270, w/ 5 HRs and 27 RBI.

Although still a relatively young man, he retired instead of accepting a trade to the Philadelphia Phillies for a young catcher named Bob Boone. 

🤔 How about you favorite ballplayer and his final base card? 

👉 Do a blog post using that player's last base card that was in a major set of baseball baseball cards, i.e., 1977 Topps.

👉 Blog Bat Around Post Rules-

Must be the last base card issued by Topps, Fleer, Donruss, Upper Deck, etc, for that player.

👉 No Inserts, Relic, Autographed, or specially made cards, no new releases, or buybacks.

Let's have some fun!