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 […]
1991 Cal League All-Stars Pedro Martinez – Baseball Rookie Card Reviews
Pedro Martinez has two cards in the 32-card 1991 Cal League set. They are #1 and #32. The first card is the more commonly available of the two. It’s a typical minor league card that doesn’t appear to have the greatest printing quality. Also, Pedro didn’t look too happy in the portrait. However, Pedro very […]
Boston Red Sox Cards: 1964 Topps “Sox Sockers” Yastrzemski & Schilling
Even most casual baseball fans know who Carl Yastrzemski is, one of the greatest Boston Red Sox players ever and a Baseball Hall of Famer. But, on this 1964 Topps card entitled “Sox Sockers” who is this he’s sharing the card with? That’s the Red Sox second baseman at the time, the slick fielding Chuck […]
1973 Topps Luis Aparicio Baseball Card – Cards Your Mom Threw Out!
In 2010, Topps created a series of baseball cards called “Cards Your Mom Threw Out” featuring vintage Topps cards with either a new “CMT” back or the original back. These are actually fairly sought after cards by collectors, especially those with the original backs. For me, as a Boston Red Sox fan, the Luis Aparicio […]
Valuable Red Sox Baseball Cards: 1960 Topps Earl Wilson Rookie Card
While 1960 Topps is rightly better known for a much more valuable Red Sox rookie card in Carl Yastrzemski, another Boston rookie card also deserves attention: starting pitcher Earl Wilson. The right-handed Wilson actually didn’t start off that well in his early two stints in 1959 and 1960. In fact, he returned to the minors […]
Most Valuable Red Sox Baseball Cards: George Kell
Most people think of Baseball Hall-of-Fame third baseman George Kell as a Detroit Tiger. That’s not surprising, as he played in parts of eight seasons with the Tigers and was a Tigers broadcaster for thirty-seven years. But, he started out with the Philadelphia A’s, and the Tigers actually traded Kell to the Boston Red Sox […]