Cooperstown Calling

1996 Ultra Baseball Call to the Hall
10 of 10. Frank Thomas
It’s funny looking back at the cards that claim to have future Hall of Fame inductees. During the mid-1990s there were your sure-fire candidates like Griffey, Maddux, Ripken and Gwynn. There were also the then sure-fire names that have since been defamed by alleged steroid [...]

The Big Bang Theory

2005 Donruss Bomb Squad
2 of 6. Jeff Bagwell/Frank Thomas
The 1990s were all about the long ball. Now that the steroid scandal has surfaced, we have a good idea why. But two of the decade’s best first basemen have yet to be implicated – Jeff Bagwell and Frank Thomas. Both are featured on numerous dual-player [...]

Dy-no-mite!

2005 SportFlix Detonators
DE4. Frank Thomas
Part of the reason for my hiatus was the fact that I while researching possible cards to post, I re-discovered the wacky world of mid- to late-1990s inserts. Browsing online shops I filled my virtual carts with bit of crazy nostalgia and cards that weren’t available to me before the Internet. [...]

The Man With No Name

1990 Topps Baseball
414. Frank Thomas “No name on front”
It’s a sad day in baseball as one of the 1990s biggest stars has been released a day after being benched – and as a DH no less. And while Frank Thomas may be a big-name draw for a club struggling at the gate, his days as [...]