The Promise of 40 Home Runs
40 HRs is a magic number. It’s even more impressive when a player averages this amount every 162 games.
Set Collecting
He Gets on Base
“The Walking Man” got free passes to first base more often than the Greek God of Walks.
Clean Living and the Spitball
That’s what Preacher Roe attributed his baseball success to in a Sports Illustrated interview that created a firestorm in public opinion.
What More Than 10% of the ’93 Finest Checklist Has in Common
Four pitches stood between Mike Mussina and four no-hitters.
A Perfect Brett Bunt-ler Card
I turned a gem mint Brett Butler card into a stack of needed cards for my set.
The Refractor Set Hits a Milestone with Mike Piazza
With the addition of a Mike Piazza card my refractor set hit the 50% completion mark.
The Most Wanted Card of the Nineties
There was a multiyear period in which no other 1990s baseball card was more sought after than this one.