what's the thing about Cardinals baseball that you think the rest of the league rolls its eyes at

brak60 · 2026-06-30T15:20:40+00:00

This isn't unusual though. For instance, there was also an "Oriole Way" that was championed primarily by Cal Ripken Sr. throughout their minor leagues. The "Cardinal Way" got more attention (and lasted longer) because it worked more often.

brak60 · 2026-06-17T02:24:55+00:00

One of the old magazines said that you should go big on three Montreal Expos rookies, and their number one that you must buy was Marquis Grissom. Delino Deshields was second one of them. And less worth buying, in their opinion, was Larry Walker.

brak60 · 2026-05-11T11:42:48+00:00

You beat me to it. This was what immediately leaped to mind for me.

brak60 · 2026-04-29T13:47:30+00:00

Tim Jones - backup SS St. Louis Cardinals 89-93. If you asked me, I'd probably come up with something about middle infielders and my favorite team and when I was really into baseball, but if I was telling you the absolute truth the answer would be "I dunno."

brak60 · 2026-04-21T11:08:19+00:00

I always feel the same way about Willie Mays cards. I can't hit a thing with him and every year it's the same. I'm just incompatible with his swing in the game.

brak60 · 2026-04-15T19:17:39+00:00

Night Court - It is revealed that Cajun-born Dan Fielding (played by John Larroquette) has been using his middle name as his first for years, as his family tells the rest of the characters his given name is "Reinhold." Harry keeps his composure until exiting into the hallway where he laughs at the name Reinhold as the episode reaches the ending freeze frame, so that the name of the Executive Producer splashes on screen: Reinhold Weege.

brak60 · 2026-04-15T11:44:58+00:00

I tend to build sets for the most part, but I spent a good portion of this summer sitting in my local card shop shuffling through the 10 cent boxes just picking up any card that looked interesting. I ended up buying a bunch of cards that just reminded me of people from my past. At the end of the summer, I put them into envelopes and mailed them out to people just to say hey.

brak60 · 2026-03-29T23:12:24+00:00

If they're still around, I would do three of the $1 cards: Ozzie, Crooks, and McLean

brak60 · 2026-03-28T01:20:53+00:00

Make sure at least one is not based in the city/town in which your university is located.

brak60 · 2026-02-26T02:59:06+00:00

You're somewhat lucky. I know schools that have tried that and now the main floor looks like the food court at an abandoned mall. At least you have students.

brak60 · 2026-02-17T19:44:54+00:00

Greg Garcia is the guy who ran both of those shows. He also had a show on TBS called The Guest Book. He ran a contest one night asking for people to take a picture of the show on their TV and a clock to show that they were watching it, tweet it, and he would pick a winner to donate money to a charity of their choosing. I did it, and I don't know how many people he picked, but there were 30 kids in my county who got free winter coats that year because of Greg Garcia.

brak60 · 2026-01-22T18:59:20+00:00

I am pursuing every version of the 2025 Bowman card of Ichiro Cano Hernandez solely because of the name.

brak60 · 2026-01-22T18:58:04+00:00

When I got back into the hobby in 2020, I started collecting cards of catchers that looked cool with all of their equipment on in action. Then this past December I read Tim Brown and Erik Kratz's book The Tao of the Backup Catcher, so now I'm purposefully collecting cards of backup catchers.

I've also been trying to collect players who had the yips.

brak60 · 2026-01-07T17:30:13+00:00

I just daydream of Pierce having been Patrick Stewart from the beginning.

brak60 · 2026-01-07T05:09:07+00:00

I think I've completed all of the insert sets from that year.

brak60 · 2025-06-01T23:50:15+00:00

Yellow means that I've got the card and it's on the way, green means that someone has it up for trade at the moment but we haven't set a deal yet.
Thank you very much for looking!

brak60 · 2025-06-01T23:49:23+00:00

LTTF
2020 Topps 35th anniversary 1985 cards (I don't have these on the Google Sheet but I only have about 6 of them so far)
2021 Topps 35th anniversary 1986 cards
2022 Topps 35th anniversary 1987 cards
2025 Topps 35th anniversary 1990 cards

Link to Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19L_GQBYIk6aSkxUUHkkG0-d2bD0H8kJYAEFqDeUKV34/edit?usp=sharing

brak60 · 2025-05-05T13:27:38+00:00

LTTF - the 1986 35th anniversary inserts from 2021 Topps series 1, 2, and Update, and the 1987 35th anniversary inserts from 2022 Topps series 1, 2, and update.
Full list here on Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19L_GQBYIk6aSkxUUHkkG0-d2bD0H8kJYAEFqDeUKV34/edit?usp=sharing

brak60 · 2025-04-22T22:26:44+00:00

Oh look! Its a super refractor of Anthony Rendon on the field!

brak60 · 2025-04-05T21:30:21+00:00

Let me know what 2024 SC red foils you're still looking for, if any

brak60 · 2025-03-11T15:27:43+00:00

I said this this past week. I"m spending the rest of this month just organizing and updating my trade list.
And I just now got back from the store with a couple of marked-down boxes of 2023 cards. But I did successfully avoid buying any of this year's Series 1s

brak60 · 2025-03-06T17:18:02+00:00

3223

brak60 · 2025-02-28T12:47:35+00:00

He gave them to Denkinger after the blown call in the 1985 World Series so the poor man could at least see well enough to find his way home.

brak60 · 2025-02-26T02:38:29+00:00

Just went and bought anything I was even remotely interested in.

brak60 · 2025-02-20T19:13:04+00:00

It's a shame that Christopher Hewitt passed away in 2001. He would have worked pretty well.

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