Right Name/Wrong Name is an ADHD-fueled exercise I started a while back when I was thinking about how little sense the name Utah Jazz makes to me and how sports-angry it makes me that it’s still the name of the basketball team in Salt Lake City. I started writing way-too-long blog entries about the good… Read More Right Name/Wrong Name: Fixing the names of NFL teams
The weirdest thing to me about the modern sports card collecting industry, after having awakened from a 25-year slumber of sorts, is finding that an Italian sticker company previously unknown to the vast majority of American collectors had snuck in and taken over the hobby. I remember reading that Panini (like the sandwich?) had signed… Read More I hate/love Panini: A two-sided essay on the current king of sports cards
One of the fun things about digging back into old sports cards is the learning I’m doing. I’m learning about/remembering players from my youth, discovering cards of current-day general managers and coaches who used to play (sometimes in relative obscurity as benchwarmers). I’m having fun digging back into the history of championships, MVPs, record-setters, and… Read More Blast From the Packs: From Score to Pinnacle back to Score
I recently learned that the Donruss Trading Card Company was named for its three founders: guys named Doug, Don, and Russell. My first thought was “man, how did Doug agree to that? Total Doug erasure with a name like Don-Russ.” So then I was thinking of other names they could have went with, like: RussDoDon… Read More Blast From the Packs: Donruss through the years
When I started this little experiment in purchasing sports cards from my past off eBay as a way to spur my writing muscles awake from a much-too-long slumber, I said to myself, “this isn’t going to be a big new hobby, it’s more of a writing exercise. Besides, I can’t even afford to buy cards… Read More I hate/love the trading card industry: A two-sided essay
Have you ever seen something like this in the trading card section or the toy section of a store and wondered what the hell it is? It’s usually between 5 and 20 bucks, and it purports to have a certain number of cards (usually between 30 and 80) and a pack or two, and sometimes… Read More What’s in the box? Checking out a Fairfield repack
When I was collecting sports cards as a kid, I collected each of the four major American sports at the time: Baseball, basketball, football (American style) and ice hockey. My interest in each sport would wax and wane with the seasons, but I would say most of the time, baseball and basketball jockeyed for that… Read More Blast From the Packs: Football then, football now-ish
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