A Look at Jose Abreu Rookie Cards After His 2020 MVP Season
In the 2019-2020 Major League Baseball offseason, White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu was about to hit the free agent market for the first time in his career. Knowing that he preferred to stay in Chicago, the team extended him a one-year qualifying offer worth $17.8 million. It seemed that it would be a foregone […]
How Popular is Nomar Garciaparra in the Baseball Card Hobby?
As one of the best Red Sox players for the better part of a decade, it’s no surprise that many Red Sox baseball card collectors covet his cardboard treasures. Number 5 looked like a surefire Hall of Famer after breaking out in his true rookie year of 1997. Of course, just seven years later he […]
1995 Best Top 100 #3 – Nomar Garciaparra Rookie Cards
The 1995 Best baseball card set is best known (no pun intended) for an early rookie card of Hall of Fame slugger Vladimir Guerrero. But, there is a Nomar Garciaparra card in the set, too. While not considered an official rookie card, it is a popular card among Nomar card collectors. It is far from […]
1994 Stadium Club Draft Picks #69 – Nomar Garciaparra Rookie Cards
It’s a shame that this 1994 Stadium Club Draft Picks Nomar Garciaparra baseball card isn’t very valuable, especially when it features a great portrait of Nomar smiling in a Red Sox uniform! Usually, an early card of a star player wearing a Major League uniform, especially the one he’s most associated with, would be a […]
1994-95 Fleer Excel #10 – Nomar Garciaparra Rookie Cards
Fleer Excel isn’t a baseball card brand you hear much about anymore. In fact, you hardly ever hear about it in the collecting hobby. However, there is one notable “rookie card” featured in the 1994 Fleer Excel set of a player by the name of Nomar Garciaparra. The design of his card in the set […]
Jose Canseco: The Red Sox Years
In one of the better trades the Red Sox made in the 1990’s, the Red Sox traded speedy, defensive minded outfielder Otis Nixon and infielder Luis Ortiz to the Texas Rangers for outfielder Jose Canseco. Obviously, it was a bit of a salary dump, with the Rangers clearly thinking they could replace Canseco’s bat with […]
Jason Varitek – The Red Sox Team Captain and His 2004 Career Year
The last team captain of the Boston Red Sox, Jason Varitek spent parts of 15 seasons with Boston. He made his major league debut with a base hit in his first and only major league at-bat in 1997. Varitek was acquired by the Red Sox along with pitcher Derek Lowe in the infamous trade for […]
Trot Nixon – An Unsung Hero of the 1999 to 2005 Red Sox
Christopher Trotman Nixon, better known as “Trot,” was a first-round selection of the Boston Red Sox. Despite how highly Nixon was regarded, his first few seasons in the minor leagues weren’t all that exciting. Nixon did get called up to the Major Leagues in 1996, and got 2 hits in 4 at-bats. His 1997 season […]
Bernie Williams – The Yankee Star Even a Red Sox Fan Could Love!
When I began following baseball around the turn of the 21st century, the Red Sox and New York Yankees rivalry was as hot as ever. One of my favorite players to watch right from the beginning was Bernie Williams…of the Yankees. That’s right. The long time Yankees center fielder spent all 16 major league seasons […]
Rich Garces – “El Guapo” and His Career Year as Boston Red Sox Setup Man
While not eligible for my Junk Wax Dynasty series, Rich Garces himself did in fact begin his career in the infamous era of overproduction for sports cards. Fortunately, or unfortunately, for Garces, setup men don’t get much love at all in the sports card hobby. Who they do get love from are the sports fans, […]