Topps Series 2 is here and it means even less than ever: 1. You can't find it on any shelf or even on a certain big box store's web site (I received a gift card to Target for Father's Day with the intent of me ordering up some cards remotely. But I should've received one from Walmart because at least they have packs available). 2. It still features that irritating Bowman-esque design that makes me fear for the direction Topps flagship is headed. 3. I like vintage so much more than I did even five or six years ago. Buying Series 2 is always somewhat pointless and a rather shameful process actually. In fact, Series 1 and Series 2 sums up that old adage, which should be a meme: Just purchased Series 1: shame on you Just purchased Series 2: shame on me If I like the design and am actually collecting the set, then, yeah, I'll go nuts on Series 2. But otherwise, what am I even doing? I already know it's icky from viewing all the Series 1 cards. It took me a fe
This group put out a one-hit wonder 40 years ago and I had never heard it before this year. That is shocking to me because 40 years ago would place me smack in the middle of high school and I knew every last song that was on the radio 40 years ago. Seven-Year Ache, Gemini Dream, Hey Nineteen, I knew them all. But not " So Lonely ," a power-pop, do-wop throwback from a duo called "Get Wet," which barely cracked the Top 40, reaching No. 39 in April, 1981. I heard it for the first time this year, listening to retro radio from 40 years back, and then weirdly, the video popped up on my recommendations and I thought, "there's no way this would happen with a baseball card. I knew ALL the baseball cards in 1981." Um ... maybe not. Welcome to another edition of One-Card Wonders. We're in 1981 ... again. I covered 1981 in this series earlier but I looked only at Topps. So this time I wanted to see how the other two sets released that year did with