Bill's Baseball Card Blog

1953 Topps Archives When I returned home after more than a month of traveling, I was thrilled to find these cards in the mail from Bob of  The Best Bubble . Bob has been very generous with his gifts and I greatly appreciate him whittling away three of my Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame needs list. 1953 Topps Archives 1990 Target Thank you Bob! Thanks for visiting! CinciCuse Bill

This is my first thank you post, especially to Greg from  night owl cards  and Bob from  the best bubble  for helping me fill in gaps in my collections! Greg saw that I had 8 Alston cards in a 9 pocket sheet and well it just didn't look right. So he sent me the above 2002 Topps Super Teams '55 and the 2003 Upper Deck SP Legendary Cuts Alston card below to fill the void. Both are sweet additions to my Alston Collection. But this creates a new (and welcome) dilemma where I now have a second sheet, and it only has 1 card in a 9 pocket sheet! Eight more to go!?!? The same week I received two cards from Bob that will fit in nicely into my Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame collection. The Hugh Critz and Fred Lucas cards below are Galasso reprints of 1933 Goudy Gum Co., Big League Chewing Gum. I normally only collect cards of Reds HoFers while they played for the Reds, but I make exceptions for players from the really early years. There just aren't many cards of these p...