30 Day Challenge, Day 5

A certified autograph card of one of your favorite players

I have to break the rules on this one and go to a different sport. The only certified autograph baseball card I have of a favorite player is the Yaz card I already showed last month. I'm trying not to show any repeats during this challenge. I used to have a player collection of A.C. Green. I stopped a couple of years ago.  The cards started getting remarkably unoriginal, with the same three photographs being reused year after year on many different cards. Most of the PC is still intact, although I've unloaded some of them. A.C. Green was an unsung hero for the Lakers teams of the late 80's. He was fine with Kareem and Magic getting the attention while he consistently played his power forward role. A.C. is the NBA's all-time iron man for consecutive games played. But the most interesting thing about him is his abbreviated name.  A.C. stands for nothing. It's short for nothing. His parents named him "A.C."

30 Day Challenge, Day 4

A rookie card of one of your favorite players

Mo Vaughn was never my favorite player, but he was always right up there.  He was a big reason that Red Sox were able to come out of the woeful early 1990's to division champions by 1995.  This is his 1991 Topps Traded card. 

30 Day Challenge, Day 3

HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!  MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU!

And now, back to the challenge; a card from the first set you tried to complete

1985 Topps was the first set I tried to complete.  I bought and opened a lot of packs that year.  At some point I realized I had an awful lot of them and got the idea to see if I could get them all.  Perhaps it was the checklists that lured me in?  I had a couple of friends with whom I regularly traded, and for the first time found myself trading for cards of players that I had no interest in or even greatly disliked.  That wasn't very fun!  So the next year I started buying complete sets from the start.  I never did get the whole 1985 set completed that way.  But a little later in life I did buy the set complete, leaving me with all those doubles.

30 Day Challenge, Day 2

A card with more than one player on it

I thought I'd be different with this pick.  Everybody I've seen so far has picked a card with multiple players on the front of the card.  But the 1994 Upper Deck All-Star Jumbo Gold of Roger Clemens has the second player on the back.

I have this card as part of my Aaron Sele collection because it's listed in his checklist on Beckett.  Don't you just love the sign over his shoulder?  Is that for the players?

30 Day Challenge, Day 1

I'm really late to the party, but reading others has been fun, so here goes!

A card from the current year with a photo you like.

This isn't a tough one.  The only cards from 2017 that I have to choose from are Topps Series 1 Red Sox.  I'm going with Mookie Betts making the great defensive play.  The runner up is David Ortiz with his iconic swing.  I always wondered why his follow through didn't go around his back like so many other players.

Boston Red Sox Trade Bait, Part 5 of 5

1989 Bowman 16 including Rice and Smith
1990 Bowman 17 including Boggs and Smith
1991 Bowman 3
1992 Bowman 5
1993 Bowman 10
1994 Bowman 6
1995 Bowman 6
1996 Bowman 8
1997 Bowman 3
1998 Bowman 6
1999 Bowman 4 including David Eckstein
2000 Bowman 9 including Eckstein
2001 Bowman 16 including Manny Ramirez
2002 Bowman 4
2003 Bowman 7 including Jonathan Papelbon
2006 Bowman Draft/Prospect/Chrome 12
2007 Bowman Draft/Prospect/Chrome 11 including Clay Buchholz and Jacoby Ellsbury
2008 Bowman Draft/Prospect/Chrome 3
2009 Bowman Draft/Prospect/Chrome 9
2010 Bowman Draft/Prospect/Chrome 7
2011 Bowman Draft/Prospect/Chrome 9
2012 Bowman Draft/Prospect/Chrome 11 including Jackie Bradley Jr and Xander Bogaerts
2013 Bowman Draft/Prospect/Chrome 17 including Travis Shaw, Brock Holt, and Bogaerts
2014 Bowman Draft/Prospect/Chrome 14 including Manuel Margot and Blake Swihart
2015 Bowman Draft/Prospect/Chrome 8 including Margot, Rafael Devers, and Andrew Benintendi
1993 Leaf 4 including Dawson
1994 Leaf 3
2014 Panini Elite Extra Edition 2
2014 Panini Classics Christian Vazquez
2000 Skybox Dominion Shea Hillenbrand
1983 TCMA 1942 Tex Hughson
1991 Front Row Silver Aaron Sele
1986 Sportflics Carl Yastrzemski
1978 Hostess Jim Rice
1987 Kraft Home Plate Heroes Wade Boggs
1980 Kellogg's Rice and Fred Lynn
1992 Kellogg's Rice
2002 Upper Deck Twizzlers Nomar Garciaparra  (2 different)

Boston Red Sox Trade Bait, Part 4

1981 Fleer 16 including Yastrzemski, Rice, Eckersley, and Perez
1982 Fleer 5 including Rice and Eckersley
1984 Fleer 5 including Rice
1985 Fleer 16 including Rice and Buckner
1987 Fleer 3 including Clemens and Clemens All-Star
1988 Fleer 24 including Clemens, Rice, and Boggs
1989 Fleer 2 including Lee Smith
1993 Fleer 2
1994 Fleer entire team including Clemens and Andre Dawson
1994 Fleer Ultra 3 including Dawson
1995 Fleer 4
1999 Fleer 2
2000 Fleer Tradition 2
2000 Fleer Greats of the Game Jim Rice
2003 Fleer Tradition 2 including Freddy Sanchez
2006 Fleer 2
1992 Score Select 2
1995 Score 2
1996 Score 2
1989 Upper Deck 2
1990 Upper Deck 4
1991 Upper Deck 3
1992 Upper Deck 2
1994 Upper Deck 3
1994 Upper Deck Electric Diamond Aaron Sele
2000 Upper Deck 3
2002 Upper Deck 2
2003 Upper Deck 3 including Abe Alvarez
2006 Upper Deck 3
2007 Upper Deck 2
2009 Upper Deck Clay Buchholz