General All Purpose Baseball Card Thread - 2015

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Apparently 50 Cent's somewhat wayward ceremonial first pitch will be the part of an insert set in the new Topps set. Detroit get's Jack White.

Here's the list:


FP-01 Jeff Bridges - Los Angeles Dodgers
FP-03 McKayla Maroney - Chicago White Sox
FP-04 Eddie Vedder - Chicago Cubs
FP-05 Biz Markie - Oakland Athletics
FP-06 Agnes McKee - San Diego Padres
FP-07 Austin Mahone - Atlanta Braves
FP-08 Jermaine Jones - Los Angeles Dodgers
FP-09 Tom Willis - Kansas City Royals
FP-10 Graham Elliot - Chicago Cubs
FP-11 Tom Morello - Chicago Cubs
FP-12 Macklemore - Seattle Mariners
FP-13 Suzy - Los Angeles Dodgers
FP-14 50 Cent - New York Mets
FP-15 Meb Keflezighi - Boston Red Sox


Biz Markie had better aim than Fiddy?

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/index.ssf/2015/01/jack_white_gets_own_topps_base.html#incart_river

[G-Fafif]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Biz Markie had better aim than Fiddy?

He says it's just a throw.

[seawolf17]

Mets in the '15 S1:

4 Curtis Granderson
24 New York Mets
83 David Wright
129 Jacob deGrom
133 Daisuke Matsuzaka
149 Daniel Murphy
166 Jenrry Mejia
173 Carlos Torres
199 Eric Young Jr.
236 Zack Wheeler
241 Dilson Herrera
244 Bartolo Colon
263 Dillon Gee
306 Juan Lagares

And just as importantly, SEAWOLVES in the '15 S1:

31 Nick Tropeano
54 Joe Nathan
351 Tom Koehler

Pretty sweet.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

G-Fafif wrote: Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Biz Markie had better aim than Fiddy? He says it's just a throw.

Brilliant!

[Edgy MD]

Biz is from NJ and lived on Long Island for a bit (which I know because I ran into him at the Sunrise Multiplex).

We should not be loaning out our own to Oakland.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Gonna be going through a lot of cards next couple of days. These are
kinda cool... so far I have 13 of the 26 in the team set. Two of the cards,
#2 and #22, are Bonilla special cards and are among the missing.

[seawolf17]

1993 Pacific Spanish! One of only seven Kevin McReynolds cards I don't have.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I'll keep an eye out for it... what are the other six?

[Guest d'Kong76]

These are a unusual... 1989 team set of Topps Mini Leaders.
I set the image size the same as regular size to make the backs
more readable, but the cards only measure 2 1/8 X 3".

[seawolf17]

All of the Kevin McReynoldses I'm missing are either regional issues or short-printed, so they're generally pretty hard to find.

1983 Padres Team Issue 17
1989 Donruss Blue Chips 4
1990 Donruss Aqueous Test 218
1993 Pacific Spanish 491
1993 Royals Police
2005 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites Auto Rainbow KMC /10
2009 Upper Deck Buyback 20th Anniv 367

The Royals Police set I've seen on eBay a few times; I just need to bite the bullet and spend the five bucks. The other six I've never seen anywhere. The Blue Chips and the Fan Favorites are the only pricey cards on the list, but even the cheap ones have stymied me.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I found a few more Pac Span's for my set but no McR's yet. I have
like eight Kevin Elster's so that's kinda frustrating. If I find two, one
has your name on it.

On another note, I have an unopened 1989 and 1990 Kahn's sets that
I'd like to trade with someone for a 1993 set; one year for one year.
The 1993 set doesn't need to be unopened, but needs to be complete
and in nice shape. I have seven years in a binder, for some reason
missing 1993.

[seawolf17]

He's a Royal in the 1993 Pacific Spanish set.

I need the 1996 Kahn's set myself. Not the whole set, necessarily -- just the Pete Harnisch -- but that's another one I can't find.

[Guest d'Kong76]

seawolf17 wrote: He's a Royal in the 1993 Pacific Spanish set. I need the 1996 Kahn's set myself. Not the whole set, necessarily -- just the Pete Harnisch -- but that's another one I can't find.

That would explain him not being in this mess I call
a card metsventory.

You're obviously very thorough, do you need stuff like
1988 Topp's Record Breaker with McR pictured or a couple
of others with him pictured with others? Set them aside as
I was thumbing through everything.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Some 1988 young familiar faces...

[seawolf17]

d'Kong76 wrote: seawolf17 wrote: He's a Royal in the 1993 Pacific Spanish set. I need the 1996 Kahn's set myself. Not the whole set, necessarily -- just the Pete Harnisch -- but that's another one I can't find. That would explain him not being in this mess I call a card metsventory. You're obviously very thorough, do you need stuff like 1988 Topp's Record Breaker with McR pictured or a couple of others with him pictured with others? Set them aside as I was thumbing through everything.

Nope. There are 200 or so Kevin McReynolds cards recognized by Beckett; I have all of them except those seven I listed.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Remember these guys?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Topps to honor Sy Berger in a 2015 throwback Red Back/Blue Back mock '51 set:

[fimg=333]https://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/sy-berger-card-2.jpg?w=518&h=725[/fimg] [fimg=333]https://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/seaver-sy-berger-2.jpg?w=518&h=725[/fimg][fimg=444]http://topps.pixafy.netdna-cdn.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/500x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/A/R/ARTLE-SYB-15019.jpg[/fimg]
Topps 2015 base card preview:



http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/02/03/schwartz-topps-honors-jeter-berger-in-2015-baseball-card-sets/

[seawolf17]

'15 comes out this week. One of my favorite holidays of the year -- New Card Day.

[Zvon]

Wow. Look at that deGrom. FUTURE STARS. Kool!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Blue-light specials... there's a Carter too but if I
have it I can't find it...

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I can't figure out what Topps is trying to do with the new designs. What's in the border? Is that supposed to be rocks? Infield dirt? And what's with the white lines around the team logo and in the background under the name? Is that some kind of electronics motif?

[seawolf17]

I'm looking forward to seeing the design in person -- going to stop by the card store this afternoon, even though I hate them -- but it's definitely a 25-year throwback to those 1990 borders for me.

[Guest d'Kong76]

[Edgy MD]

Put them against a grid. Like they're being computer generated humans on a holodeck grid. Could you get more 1992?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Very fugly, busy backgrounds this year. If the Topps guy didn't just die the ugliness of his company would unleash this season would probably do the trick.

[Zvon]

I tried to get a box of 2015 Topps today. I was on the way out to dinner so I only had time to check Target & Walmart. No hobby shops close by anymore. Neither store had em. I grabbed another box of 2014 Topps update that came with 2 packs of Chrome UD.
First chrome pack: DING! DING! deGrom chrome rook debut.
Second chrome pack: DING! DING! Montero chrome rook.
First regular pack: DING! DING! deGrom rook debut.
Third reg pack: DING! DING! Quintanilla: The throwing variation.

Still have a few packs to open, but I'm very happy with my haul already. Got a chrome Tanaka rook, if anybody cares.

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: I can't figure out what Topps is trying to do with the new designs. What's in the border? Is that supposed to be rocks? Infield dirt? And what's with the white lines around the team logo and in the background under the name? Is that some kind of electronics motif?

It was a pain in the ass to reproduce that design for the custom Mets cards. I like the design & I expect to like it better when I see one with my own eyes.

[seawolf17]

As always, Zvon or whoever, if you buy any '15 and pull any parallels of any of my Stony Brook guys (Tom Koehler and Nick Tropeano and Joe Nathan ALL in the set), let me know.

[Guest d'Kong76]

[MFS62]

Anyone waiting for this one?
http://nypost.com/2015/02/05/50-cents-horrid-pitch-will-get-its-own-baseball-card/

Later

[Edgy MD]

I'm all over e-bay looking to complete this set: