Here’s Blinking at You, Kid

1994 SP Baseball Holoview Blue
37 of 38. Sammy Sosa
Growing up, I loved holograms. They always carried a certain “wow” factor about them. I mean, it’s a two dimensional picture, but there’s three dimensions! So when Upper Deck came out with the team logo holograms, let’s just say that I had many a notebook covered in [...]

How Sweet the Sound

1997 Upper Deck Baseball Amazing Greats
AG14. Jeff Bagwell
I’m not a big fan of “the pun” when it comes to naming card sets. For example, take this perfectly gorgeous mix of faux wood and a slide portrait – very classy, very nice. But then you’ve got the cornball title “Amazing Greats.” It’s not very often that [...]

Tommy at the Plate

2003 Upper Deck Sweet Spot Sweet Spot Barrel Autographs
AU-TG. Tom Glavine
Bat barrel autographs are cool.
Bat barrel autographs of pitchers seem kind of silly.
Bat barrel autographs of pitchers may seem kind of silly but they’re better than sticker autographs – period.

18 and Life and Then Some

2008 Upper Deck Spectrum Spectrum of Stars Autographs
SSS-SB. Sebastian Bach
Back when I was ten Bon Jovi was the stuff. And it wasn’t the cougars who loved him – the girls dug him too. My sister was one of them. She was 13 and figured if she made it to the concert, he’d pull her out [...]

Remember the Hologram?

1996 SPx Baseball
23. Larry Walker
I can lament “the good-ole’ days” of collecting all I want where gum was in every Topps (or O-Pee-Chee, here in the North) pack, even the ones not marked Heritage and it was easy to trade in person, but then I couldn’t talk about one of my favourite sets of all-time. [...]

Bringing More Cowbell

Semi-Pro
Upper Deck, 2008
1. Will Ferrell as Jackie Moon
Today’s card is from a three-card promotional set made for the Will Ferrell comedy Semi-Pro.  Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, the owner of the ABA franchise the Flint Tropics who are in danger of being wiped out by a league merger with the NBA. So the synopsis goes. The [...]

Manny’s Going to the YMCA

2008 Upper Deck Series 1 Baseball
229. Manny Ramirez
I finally got my grubby hands on some 2008 baseball cards yesterday – two rack packs of 2008 Upper Deck Series 1 Baseball. Although I didn’t pull anything “big” I have to say that this set impressed me more than I thought it would. First, the rack pack [...]