This is good and correctly identifies the transition from finding/fixing needs (an engineer's first instinct) to forcing/selling things to the customer (marketing's first instinct). The other thing going on is that SV got spoiled by two decades of tech always getting demonstrably better.
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Important journalism alert!
(Personally, I LOVE the value dog, because I want a hot dog at a game but don't like paying over $8 for one. Great for kids too!)
Excited for you!
After making his debut yesterday, Hao-Yu Lee became the 19th Taiwanese-born player in MLB history!
- PR
I love cracking slabs! Get that baby in a binder where it belongs 🙂
Hey all, I'm back on here after a few very busy days in real life. I hope to get back to posting by Tigers binder pages this afternoon. We're finished with Binder #1 and have to open the new binder when we start 1970 here!
An all-time great trade for the Tigers
Javy Báez knew he was safe on this slide into home plate 😮💨
McLain's photo is similar as what they used on the checklist card, but is slightly different
The only real downside to the deckle edge cards is that the Freehan and Horton ones use the same photos as their regular cards in the set
1969 Topps wraps up on binder page 61 three slots short of a full page, which just happens to be the perfect size to fit in the three Tigers from the Topps Deckle Edge issue. Unlike the ‘68 game cards, which felt out of place, these B&W cards fit in nicely with the rest of the set
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I tracked down an incredible piece of original artwork for an unissued 1953 Topps card that surfaced in a 2004 auction catalog. With help from Keith Olbermann, the mystery player turns out to be Jim Suchecki.
www.postwarcards.com/the-original...
One thing I love about 1969 Topps is that they really brought back the All Star cards. Yea, there were All Star cards on ‘68, but as in ‘62 they’re visually similar to the base card. These scream ALL STAR!
On page 60 we get a perfect row of them and they are just the best.
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Page 59: Willie Horton and shirtless Willie Horton. Dick McAuliffe and Dick McAuliffe in a silly hat. ‘68 was all about Denny McLain, but as the prior page showed, the World Series was all about Mickey Lolich! We get his card too. First page of 1969’s that are mostly the base design.
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Going back in time to what I believe is the first ever Canseco rainbow: 1989 Donruss Grand Slammers! And it’s the definition of a rainbow, with the colors flowing into each other. It would actually be fun to get this framed.
I page my team sets in this order: Team Card, Manager, Base in alphabetical order, then subsets in what ever order makes the page aesthetically pleasing. Here’s my page for those cards.
This is a great way to page it! I like your overall ordering scheme too. Now that I have most of these sets done (and don’t need to keep track of what I have/need in the same way) I may start to experiment
In posting these pages, it’s making me rethink certain paging decisions. For example, there are 8 cards in this World Series subset but only 7 on the page. Wondering about moving the Checklist card from Pg 56 to the end of the set, which would make this page just McLain and the World Series cards…
Page 58 is special. The fabulous World Series subset dominates the page, with 30-game winner Denny McLain taking one of only two normal card spots. The game-by-game headlines from the ‘68 World Series simply cannot be topped. Best subset in Tigers card history.
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Barry Bonds wearing a SF Giants Turn Ahead the Clock jersey.
Ken Griffey Jr. wearing a Seattle Mariners Turn Ahead the Clock jersey.
Orel Hershiser wearing a Mercry Mets Turn Ahead the Clock jersey.
Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians, and Anaheim Angels Turn Ahead the Clock jerseys.
These new MLB City Connects are straight fire.
Brutal two challenge overturns for the Tigers there
Binder page 57 brings us the start of 1969 Topps. You don’t get a great feel for the set on this page, what with the Leaders cards and the Checklist, but the base cards have this understated but nice design that I like a lot. Love the leader variety including the different Denny pics
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Wow! Great find
Okay, it is time for the Forbidden Don't Overreact About April Baseball Meme
Imagine, for a second, that there are 16,000 unique cards of the Milwaukee Brewers made just in the year 2025. That's silly. No there aren't. There's probably like 300, with 50 parallels of each. 300 could be fun to collect, and everything else is otherwise identical with a minor color variation.
The culprit is mostly because of parallel explosion and it is so extreme as to be impossible for anybody to actually collect it all. In that respect, it is bad for team collectors, but from another angle, it is liberating. Once I accepted "unique" cards were not really unique, I could ignore them
With both numbers proudly retired on the outfield wall of Fisher Stadium
This is as good a time as any to point out that Bill Freehan, a native Detroiter who played Baseball and Football at Michigan and was later the baseball team's head coach, was an exceptional player and has a strong Hall of Fame case that has been ignored
11x All Star, 5x Gold Glove, 3x Top 10 MVP
It's Championship Day, so what better way to celebrate a Michigan win than with the 1968 Champs and TWO cards of UofM's own Bill Freehan (and battery mate Mickey Lolich) on Binder Page 56. On page 56a I added the '68 "Topps Game" cards with a third (and Kaline).
Go Blue!
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