A common refrain among collectors is that there hasn’t been enough innovation from the card companies in recent years. While the 1990s saw the introduction of refractors, relic cards, and cer...
https://fielderschoice.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/smooth-as-silk/
Ever since I started collecting cards again in 2008, Topps Heritage has been my favorite product to collect. Sure, you have worse odds of getting a good autograph or relic card than with litera...
https://fielderschoice.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/my-first-box-of-2010-topps-heritage/
So a couple of weeks ago, I was working on organization my collection, and I found a pile of cards that I had forgotten that I owned. It was a pile of football cards from 2008 Upper Deck Master...
https://fielderschoice.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/great-hits-happen-when-you-least-expect-them/
Upper Deck Masterpieces rocks. It’s as simple as that. And I don’t think that anyone is going to disagree with me. Masterpieces is universally praised by collectors on a regular basis m...
https://fielderschoice.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/masterpieces-rocks/
One of the reasons that I wanted to start blogging again was to show off some of the amazing new Evan Longoria cards that I’ve added to my collection recently. None of them is more amazing th...
https://fielderschoice.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/the-ultimate-prize/
So if a tree falls down in the forest, but nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if an old card blogger writes a post, and nobody is around to read it … I think you get my dr...
A few people have been asking me about the future of the blog, so it is about time that I officially addressed it. After a lot of thought and consideration, I’ve decided that my days of blogg...
https://fielderschoice.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/the-end-of-the-road/
I am so happy right now. My favorite NFL team, the Buffalo Bills, just used their #1 pick to draft the best player from my college alma mater, Penn State, Aaron Maybin! Maybin was a red-shirt...
https://fielderschoice.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/i-love-it-when-this-happens/
Today, I went to one of my favorite places in the entire universe, Durham Bulls Athletic Park, for the first time in 2009. The Bulls were supposed to play the Norfolk Tides, but unfortunately t...
Since their amazing run to the 2008 World Series, the Tampa Bay Rays have parted ways with Cliff Floyd, Eric Hinske, Rocco Baldelli, Jonny Gomes, Edwin Jackson, and Trever Miller. Today, they s...
https://fielderschoice.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/farewell-jason-hammel/