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Baseball cards 2018

41Forever Jan 04 2018 12:08 PM

Topps is showing off the design for the 2018 base set, though a checklist isn't available at this point. The design seems uninspired. The company appears to be in a rut for the last three sets. No Mets cards to display yet. But this link is fun, showing the designs from 1951 to present. [url]https://www.cardboardconnection.com/evolution-topps-baseball-cards-1951-2017

Benjamin Grimm Jan 04 2018 12:20 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

I liked the cards much better when the production values were lower.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 04 2018 12:35 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Me too. These new cards are too busy, too cluttered with junk and gimmicks. And they look like every other card from the last couple of years. [fimg=277]https://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/1967/Topps---Base/165/Cleon-Jones.jpg?id=19bb816b-a3eb-4d1c-a2a9-e916695c6e62&size=zoom[/fimg] Now that's a card.

Edgy MD Jan 04 2018 12:50 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

I don't know if it's just childhood nostalgia to say "frames > bleeds," but I think frames > bleeds. The Mona Lisa has a frame. The Tabloid Cover Derby winner has a frame. Shouldn't Wilmer Flores have a frame?

41Forever Jan 04 2018 12:58 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

My favorite set: 1972 My favorite set, pre-Mets: 1956

G-Fafif Jan 04 2018 01:49 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

The ability to use actual team logos seemed like a breakthrough, but now it seems less exciting than discovering the new year's Topps color-coding (i.e. Mets red, Phillies orange, Cardinals dark blue, Expos green, Pirates light blue, Cubs pink in 1972).

Zvon Jan 04 2018 02:35 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Topps is showing off the design for the 2018 base set, though a checklist isn't available at this point. The design seems uninspired. The company appears to be in a rut for the last three sets. No Mets cards to display yet. But this link is fun, showing the designs from 1951 to present. [url]https://www.cardboardconnection.com/evolution-topps-baseball-cards-1951-2017 I like the little swirly sliding pond thingy around the logo. I must need new glasses. At first I read his name as Cunt Frazier. DOH! And after that speech I just laid on Batmags. Foooor shame. OE: Are the Skanks using the Mets colors? They better go blue and orange for our boys or I won't buy a single pack.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 04 2018 02:44 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

You said "sliding pond!" I haven't heard that term since I was a kid. Is it a Long Island thing? I think most people call it a "slide". I used to wonder why we called it a "sliding pond". Maybe we were just mispronouncing "slide-upon"?

Zvon Jan 04 2018 02:56 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Benjamin Grimm wrote: You said "sliding pond!" I haven't heard that term since I was a kid. Is it a Long Island thing? I think most people call it a "slide". I used to wonder why we called it a "sliding pond". Maybe we were just mispronouncing "slide-upon"? I don't know. The term just came to mind as I was typing. I did live in Smithtown in the mid 60s, right off 25A.(64-65. Just my luck. During the Worlds Fair. My folks still took us to it at least 3 times. Maaaaan, I loved the 64-65 NYC Worlds Fair. It was like walking into the future).

41Forever Feb 05 2018 02:53 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Got my first packs of 2018 Topps this weekend. Pulled Conforto, Reyes, Cespedes. Here's a trend I don't like and it's getting worse. Topps has "short print" variations of a bunch of players. Same card back, but a different photo. Well, this year there are short print variations and super short print variations. So there are three versions of a bunch of the cards. Dom Smith is one of the three card guys. As is Rosario: While Conforto gets two: As does Cespedes:

Benjamin Grimm Feb 05 2018 02:57 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Baseball cards were more fun when nobody ever expected that they'd be worth more than a penny each.

Zvon Feb 05 2018 04:23 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Baseball cards were more fun when nobody ever expected that they'd be worth more than a penny each. Most definitly true. Or even in the 80's when we were all finding out that they were more valuable than we imagined. If it wasn't for the 1985 Topps Gooden card, I doubt I get back into the hobby. I didn't sell any that I got (out of packs, well over a dozen), but the fact that I read that card was fetching five bucks right out of the pack made me and my brothers scramble for it like card-mongers. I actually found it rather exciting. None of us had bought more than a pack or two since the late 70's and now we were driving from one candy store to another buying up pack after pack. One thing that we don't have to deal with, and maybe for the better. The 85 Topps Gooden: it was a bitch to get a good, clear, nice quality print of that card for some reason. I had approximately 20 of them , and only like 3 or 4 were really great, vivid (not dark), clear prints. [fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DOmEJ7qw2hVARukEdBpSiadxacnqC8caGUXXkkFz2jM-eTiLwz_ymctv7L2StPm_-XG60o7cYpVnzVRKLChYLUAmAqpiIQUt24e_iY24nul-Enc64qZbakU3GZY3eebcEtCsTQRaWlpYsoPKyJFiTxxx9Is-77KuVlO7rC2BafEA6vP5OwhFfCcbJWVkBLsB3rh50QHP1S0nIzeHwm-fcG9iccV892xZOXH7-63umjdolwHTqkZ_Hl5ADNyVvZfJ19wAt_Ds-lOJo4pgh7TsrQ3oRRr45RjIw-XN07OkWGBCwCXQ6RKl3u22rUWZsaYHylIRnaai49VCzR3xCl19s6gkAjZiNICWwJAtzMg3CbI9NaHBYleuODWcJkUOzvZ8prBuuHwgXdNVKY1O4s2NL5iJ7i9BjmhmAAACInAisb-UhBLolIGjNCE56SxGAQMOkRdo4Z7fKm8iDpLTUQfirgsYDtv597BduEPscPqnha-Q_WJXa3mjAZ3lVQBxcM6KResPe4XIoDaL9n_3dDwchWcljxYyZCqB2jT7982iiZWcgReVeFd7ViR1Ln6d6P8pMOlM6wdFjgxbIy6i2Tw2O8D1Fb2ulxw6qyaUzYml=w531-h796-no[/fimg] Typical print vs. great print^.

41Forever Feb 05 2018 07:38 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

The Travis card is pretty sweet -- and won't be possible ever again as the nets stretch down to the end of the dugouts.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 27 2018 02:07 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

The 2018 Topps Heritages are out. Amazin' 1969 style. Surf the web for pics. I usually post lots a pics every year this line debuts, but my internet's been out for a while. Outage problem. Posting from my phone sucks. Nice Matz card. Amed gets a New Age Performer card. Check 'em out.

d'Kong76 Mar 17 2018 07:38 AM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Poking around on the ol' server I found a couple of orphaned checklist pages some might find interesting/useful: http://www.kcmets.com/MetsCardsDonruss81to91.html http://www.kcmets.com/MetsCardsTopps62to71.html Other unfinished pages of interest (but with cool images): http://www.kcmets.com/MetsScorecards.html http://www.kcmets.com/MetsPublications.html

Zvon Mar 17 2018 03:25 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Poking around on the ol' server I found a couple of orphaned checklist pages some might find interesting/useful: http://www.kcmets.com/MetsCardsDonruss81to91.html http://www.kcmets.com/MetsCardsTopps62to71.html Other unfinished pages of interest (but with cool images): http://www.kcmets.com/MetsScorecards.html http://www.kcmets.com/MetsPublications.html That's great. I used to turn the SURF book into a checklist by drawing little check boxes next to the card picture.

Zvon Mar 17 2018 03:34 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

I got a blister box of Topps 2018 standard and Heritage, and a few packs of 2017 Update. Got 9 Mets total, which I consider a pretty good haul. Topps standard doesn't do anything for me. I did get a limited 490/500 1970 World Series card with Brooks Robinson on it, very kool. But I'm not gonna play the Topps short print game. That turns me off. I'm gonna focus on Heritage, especially because the World Series cards look like this:

G-Fafif Mar 19 2018 06:09 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

[fimg=300:1ohgprlp]http://i63.tinypic.com/oidfmr.jpg[/fimg:1ohgprlp] If First Data Field has a Sadecki Spot, this might have been taken there. I love the shot-in-Spring feeling of this card, a la the 1969 set (when they weren't recycling '68 head shots). I love that they have Reyes listed as a third baseman, which is in so many ways wrong (if not wholly inaccurate based on his 2017 deployment), but adds a layer of intrigue. And it's just such a swell pose. I cropped this from an image that included two other cards on Twitter. One of those cards I want to stare at a lot.

seawolf17 Aug 14 2018 12:10 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

2019 design is out. Very reminiscent of the 1982 design: https://www.topps.com/blog/2019-topps-baseball-design/ Also, I LOVE THE HELL OUT OF THESE 1983 TOPPS HATS. https://www.neweracap.com/SPORTS/MLB/To ... p/11786270

A Boy Named Seo Aug 14 2018 12:26 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Also, I LOVE THE HELL OUT OF THESE 1983 TOPPS HATS. https://www.neweracap.com/SPORTS/MLB/To ... p/11786270 These reject Houston Oilers hats?

seawolf17 Aug 14 2018 12:27 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

I don't know what was behind their color choices back in the day. You'd think orange would have made more sense. And the fact that it's red and not orange is the only reason I haven't already ordered one. But:

A Boy Named Seo Aug 14 2018 12:31 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

yeah that color scheme doesn't work for me on the hat. Don't think I realized they were all red/white bordered cards!

seawolf17 Aug 14 2018 01:48 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Yeah, most of the colors were weird back in the day. Not sure why. Makes for some interesting hats, though.

41Forever Oct 27 2018 06:13 PM Re: Baseball cards 2018

I'm a big fan of the Topps Update Series and got my set today. Some great Mets cards in there, and a mystery. Jason Vargas appears in the second series as a Met on card 530, yet he appears again in the Update Set as card US17. The second series is in a road uniform, and the update in home pinstripes. I like the rookie cards -- Conlon and Oswalt, Guillorme and Bautista. But Bautista gets a card all by himself, too. Mesoraco, de Grom as an All-Star, Lagares doing the salt and pepper thing, Jose Bautista, Todd Frazier, Jay Bruce in a cool home plate celebration with Nimmo and Conforto. Good stuff.

seawolf17 Oct 29 2018 06:24 AM Re: Baseball cards 2018

The QC from Topps has been quirky the last few years. There was one guy who had two standalone cards in the same set a few years ago.

seawolf17 Nov 30 2018 10:07 AM Re: Baseball cards 2018

[tweet:324shdpm]https://twitter.com/cdorso/status/1068551032932831233[/tweet:324shdpm]

Mets Willets Point Nov 30 2018 10:36 AM Re: Baseball cards 2018

Kathy Ireland really shows how far we've come with all of these batters wearing body armor to the plate.