I went down to the local card shop not too long ago and purchased some packs of the 2019 Topps Heritage High Number issue. This annual set features today’s players on the card format that was used fifty years ago. This year the set uses the 1970 format. Last year it used the 1969 format. Next year it will utilize the 1971 format. And etc. Read more →
It is with great sadness that I’m saying goodbye to the man who became my friend and most trusted baseball card trader. I never met Mike Augusto in person; there were three-thousand miles between us. I didn’t know what he did for a living, where he stood politically, if he was a man of faith or if he had a family. Our friendship existed in a place that made those details irrelevant. We were baseball fans in general and baseball card buddies in particular, comrades in the colorful world of cardboard magic. We met on Facebook and over the years formed a friendship that went deep and included humor, a commitment to fairness, honesty and respect. We cheered for each other’s teams. I was happy for Mike every time his Red Sox won championships, and when my Mets somehow blundered into the 2015 World Series, he pulled for me. Read more →
