(Greetings on National App day. I can recall the carefree days when I didn't know what an app was. Now I am wondering if there is a National Delete Your App day. I would like to celebrate that. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 360th in a series): It came. My one card to recognize and remember the Dodgers' World Series title in 2025. Sure, there will likely be a Heritage card or two to remember it next year (1977 Topps had three World Series cards). But this is it for something immediate. Topps isn't producing any blaster with a commemorative set anymore, and I refuse to throw cash at any of the other Topps Now cards. I was prepared for this after last year. I looked and looked for a nice World Series set to remember the 2024 Series victory but just ended up being horrified by the price of the online-only set of 15 ugly cards. I decided one card would do and I got something appropriate. I think I like this way of approaching it. It saves me ...
I claimed some cards from Baseball Cards Come To Life! awhile ago when he offered up most of the 1985 Topps Wendy's/Coca-Cola Tigers set. I'm one Barbaro Garbey card away from the complete set, hopefully I can afford to add that this week. You know how demanding the Christmas shopping gets around this time. This is a set I was only slightly aware of but it's got a lot of things going for it. First, it doesn't have just one sponsor but two and displays both sponsor logos on the cards! Second, it recognizes a specific team, the 1984 World Series champion Tigers. Third, it includes just about every player from that roster. It's a 22-card set. None of this present-day pretending that a team has 8 players and 2 of them retired 70 years ago. For me, the set automatically slots into my top 10 food issues from the 1980s. As far as food sets go, the decade doesn't get a ton of thought from me because I was so obsessed as a kid with 1970s Kellogg's and Hostess....