A couple of weeks ago I found some spare money that was just enough to order a few inexpensive cards off of my favorite baseball card marketplace. It wasn't until I received the package in the mail a few days ago that I realized how many of the cards that I ordered were oddballs. I've always gravitated toward oddballs, but my main missions in collecting usually involve completing major sets. This package appears to signal some shift in my thinking. I did order some mainstream cards, but they were by far the least interesting to me. Instead I found much more appeal in stuff like the 1976 SSPC Gene Hiser above. I ordered it because the Hiser in my SSPC set contains a rip through it. So let's get the mainstream stuff out of the way so I can bore you all with my oddball interests. Cards off the Nebulous 9 list. Every last one sat on that list for a mystifying long time, although none more so than the Swing Man Mondesi. Here is a tepid response to my...
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