Large and in charge

How about that? I follow up the first post that did not receive a comment since November with a post that received the most comments (excluding contests) since the blog began.

Some stuff sticks to the wall and some doesn't. I'm glad I'm not in the programming business, because I'll never figure that out.

Anyway, amid all the posting, I've also been carting packages into the house. This week has been an exceptional one in the card-receiving department. I have scads of cards to show, but I'll save most of them for later.

Right now I want to show three in particular. I have been receiving a number of oversized cards lately. Cards on steroids. And I don't mean cards the size of the 1984 Donruss Action All-Stars Dusty Baker item at the top of the post. That's a puny 3 1/2-by-5 card. I'm used to that stuff. I bought a bunch of those back in '84.

I don't mean the late '90s Super Chrome cards -- about 4 1/4-by-5 3/4 -- either. They fit nicely in an oversized top loader.

These are bigger.

Here is the first one:

That is a 5-by-7 Mike Piazza from 1998 Pinnacle Zenith. This was sent to me by one of the very few Canadian baseball card collectors I know, Captain Canuck. After consulting my handy Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, I know there is a smaller, regular-sized card inside the oversized Piazza. But I would have to tear apart the Piazza to figure out what was in there.

Here is the second mega-card:

This is 5-by-7, too. It's a terrific oversized version of one of my favorite cards from 2007 Masterpieces, showing Koufax commemorating his four no-hitters. It is a box-topper. It looks fantastic. This was sent to me by Joe M., who has been very kind with his cards.

Here is the last one:

This is a 5 1/4-by-7 3/4 bat swatch card of my most favorite athlete ever, the Penguin. I have never seen anything like it. Who knew there were bat swatches that big? OK, probably a lot of  you did. Know-it-alls. Apparently, Flair produced these in 2002 and 2003. This card was sent to me by GCRL. He did a good job of packaging it, too.

But these cards leave me with a question. Well, two questions. The first is, do I tear up the Piazza card? (I really don't want to). The second question is related to the post title, "Large and in Charge."

You see, these cards are "in charge" because I don't know what to do with them. They're untameable. How do I store them? Does anyone have any good ideas? Do you hang them up on a wall like mounting a hunting trophy? Up until now, I've stored cards not nearly as big in a cardboard box, because I don't know what to do with them. I have only so many 5x7 pages.

But these are too impressive. They would barely fit in some of my cardboard boxes. There's got to be a good way to display them.

Besides, they're so big that if I put them in a cardboard box, I'm afraid they'd beat me up.