(Happy Labor Day. I am actually celebrating this Labor Day because it's so early this year that school sports don't even start until this coming weekend and don't fully hit the fan until next week! Usually, there's a full-slate of soccer bombing us the Tuesday after the holiday. Small favors! Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 342nd in a series): This is Grady Sizemore's first solo card in Topps flagship. He was a hot topic during my early blogging years. It boggles my mind that he's a manager now. I'm not sure he wanted to start his Major League managing career with a team as terrible as the White Sox, though I'm guessing if you're "in baseball," as the big-leaguers sometimes say, having one of the 30 managing jobs available is an honor. Last year around this time I wrote a post about the worst major league teams since I became a fan . It didn't take even a year for that post to be out of date. Little did I know that a ne...
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