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Play ball! (2024)

If you had told me, not even 15 years ago, that I'd still be writing this post in 2024, heck that I would still be blogging in 2024, or even that there would be Opening Days to celebrate in 2024, or a semi-functioning world in 2024, I would have been pleasantly surprised. Opening Day is still a tradition we have and for many teams it starts tomorrow. (The Dodgers and Padres got a jump on things but it wasn't their idea). And if that tradition is still going, then this tradition is still going. Not a lot to discuss this time out, as compared with last year . A shout-out to Mike D. , who in the comments on last year's post, predicted a Rangers victory and a 2023 Topps Rangers card appearance on the 2024 edition. But, sorry, no Corey Seager card. I've got to maintain at least a little creative control. Let's get to it: The last time the RANGERS won the World Series, cards looked like this: The last time the ASTROS won the World Series, cards looked like this: The las
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The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 240-221)

  Arrrrrgh, I am really trying to prevent myself from preordering a hobby box of 2024 Heritage. It's very tempting given what year Heritage is covering and the devil on my shoulder is reminding me that I promised years ago that I'd buy a case when we got to this year. A case is out of the question these days. A hobby box is probably a foregone conclusion but I'm trying to hold off until near release date or just after (I can't be one of those people who buys a hobby box six months later, sure the savings are great but I have a somewhat timely blog to run!). So hopefully I don't cave. I will have this countdown to keep me focused and hopefully it won't get me too charged up to start looking up Dave and Adam's or Steel City Collectibles or one of those other sites. I'll just keep telling myself that I'll pull a dumb color swap or black-and-white variation and what the hell am I going to do with those? So I'll put that out of my mind for now and get

2024 is already a collecting success

  At the start of the year the last couple of years I've mentioned that it'd be nice if I completed the 1982 Donruss set. It hasn't been much of a priority because I like other card things a lot more, but '82 Donruss is one of the few traditional sets from my collecting youth that I had not finished. It's seemed like a must-do for awhile. I knew the best route to get the set finished was to just buy it all at once. Fifty or sixty bucks ought to do it. To get myself focused I placed the stack of 1982 Donruss I already had at the corner of my card desk, where I could see it every single day. There it is. I see that stack as soon as I walk into the card room and I walk into that room multiple times a day. You can see that it's a healthy stack and that's one of the reasons why it's taken me so long to do anything about it. With more than half of the set already in my possession, that's a lot of dupes if I order a full set. So, that stack has been sitting