Another trade with Matty K:
- Holland won the Rolaids Relief Award in 1983 and was an All-Star in '84 - both with the Phillies. It was as a Phillie that he waved to me from the bullpen after warming up but not being needed at Candlestick.
- Hall of Famer Sutton was a 4x All-Star and won 324 games.
- Still the Aztecs leader in career Assists, Assists in a season, and Assists in a game.
I need to catch up on these, so I'm combining a couple.
First, another 2025 Topps Baseball fat pack:
- Two Phillies legends works for me.
- 4x All-Star and NL MVP in 2016
- Kind of a goofy design, but Judge is elite.
- Langford's off to a good start.
- Duran had a big 2024 but has regressed this season.
2025 Score Football blaster:
- Greene looking east, thinking he could've won 5 Super Bowls if he had played for the Eagles.
- Eagles legend. Obvs.
- Not my favorite First Ballot design, but I like FB cards.
- Adams has bounced around a bit since leaving Green Bay.
- Irving in the throwback Bucs uni.
- Jeudy hot box: Base, Green parallel, and Circular parallel with a print run of 299. The pics of the parallels aren't up yet on TCDB.
- Green parallel of CeeDee Lamb, but the pic isn't up yet.
2025 Score-a-Treat:
- Mahomes got picked off twice in his last game.
- Saquon is the great-nephew of boxing legend Iran Barkley.
- Mailata was a rugby star.
- McBride might play for a bad team, but he has a great agent.
No more minor league baseball in Modesto. We had a team every season since 1946, with the exception of 1965.
Here's my attempt at a Modesto All-Star team:
The View from the Third Floor: They Minored in Modesto
I should have taken Nelson Cruz over Charlie Blackmon. Oh well.
So I bought a fat pack of 2025 Topps Baseball from Target a while back.
36 cards:
8 Minor Leaguers
4 Team Cards
3 players on 60-day IL
2 players out of baseball
1 player on the Restricted List
WTF, Topps?
The best card in the entire pack was Jonathan Aranda, for eff's sake.
I won't even dignify this pack with pictures.
Well, maybe one picture.
Another trade with Matty K.
- Dierker threw a no-hitter in 1976 and was a 2x All-Star. He later won 4 division titles in 5 years as Astros manager.
- Messersmith was a 4x All-Star and played a key role in the downfall of the reserve clause in MLB.
- White Sox legend.
- Horner was an All-Star in 1982 and hit four HRs in one game in 1986.
- Played on four Super Bowl winning teams as a Steeler.
- A member of the NFL's 100th Anniversary team. Served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from Oklahoma.
I bought a binder of junk era cards at a yard sale. Well, more like a driveway sale, but anyway... Let's look at some highlights.
