I picked up 2016 Topps #3, Richie Shaffer:
Seeing the RC logo made me wonder how many of the #3 cards are rookies. Then I started wondering about other stats within the cards: how many HRs hit by all the players, how many total players can be seen, etc. I could probably milk a bunch of posts from that collection, you know, if I still blogged regularly.
Shaffer has hit 4 total HR in the pros so far. Only one player is featured on the card. It's a rookie card. See, fun stuff.
Now I get to show the last card I got for my collection. It was the one I just hadn't sprung for until recently when I found a decent price on eBay. Naturally, a 1952 was the last card I needed:
129 HR, one player on the card, not a rookie. But what a fantastic card. Interesting fact: Hank died exactly 13 years after the day he played his final game.
Anyone else have ideas on interesting things to look at for all of the #3 cards?
(That question is posed partially to gather ideas and partially to gauge whether anyone actually reads this blog anymore)
2 comments:
If it shows up on my blogroll, I'm most likely reading. I've been trying to be better about commenting because I hate when I write what I think is a decent post and get nothing but crickets, haha.
When my 2014 Topps blog was active, I was tracking all kinds of stuff on those card breakdowns.
For a specific card number, especially with 60+ examples, you could track team depicted, the player's position, birthplace, astrological signs (ha!), lefty vs. righty, poses (head shot, batting, fielding, pitching, running, etc).
Always read your stuff amigo!
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