#baseballcards — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #baseballcards, aggregated by home.social.
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Which one of these baseball guys has the best name?
Buddy Bell (Reds)
Rollie Fingers (Brewers)
Dick Howser* (Royals)
Johnny LeMaster (Pirates)
Ramon Romero (Indians)
Dennis Lamp (Blue Jays)*Works best if you say the last name first.
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There is a really cool kind of joy that comes along with opening old wax packs with your kid and getting to tell him stories of, and connections between, old players and today's game.
My son pulled a Jim Abbott rookie and his head nearly exploded when I told him that Abbott was born with only one hand and once threw a no-hitter.
He pulled two John Kruks and had just the best time showing them off.
Effectively worthless cards on the market, but so cool to reminisce about.
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Via r/jazz: someone made a couple of sets of jazz musician trading cards in the style of old Topps baseball cards. One set from 1956, the other from 1971. I am very tempted to buy these.
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Jeff opens 3 packs of 1981 Donruss baseball cards & we get to find out what 45yo gum tastes like!
▶️ Eating 45-Year Old Gum While Ripping 1981 Donruss Baseball Box
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iwk4qV2b3qE&si=UW-KkvckbTvwxGwF
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PSA:
PSA the trading card grading service has nothing to do with PSA the prostate-specific antigen testing.
At least that's what they told me at the card show. #prostate #baseballcards #psa
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I pulled a #BoJackson rookie card out of a 1987 Topps pack. I'm a child again.
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At Long Last – My White Whale
In about 2011, I got back into baseball cards. I collected for a while around 1989-1992, the peak of the Junk Wax Era, when the market was flooded with cards that everyone thought were going to be investments like the cards your grandmother threw away in the 1950’s. I never had any money then, but in 2011 I had a real job and some friends who were ALSO interested in getting back into it.
I started collecting Aroldis Chapman cards. He was a young Cuban pitcher with an AMAZING fastball. He played for the Cincinnati Reds, which meant as an Oriole fan, he could never really hurt me. I have quite an extensive collection of his cards from 2009-2014. Then, at close to the same time, there were accusations (pretty substantiated, I think) of domestic abuse AND he went to the Yankees. I lost interest in my collection.
If you aren’t familiar with baseball cards since 2010 or so, I need to explain a few things. In order to avoid the overproduction of the early 1990s, they do limited print runs of some cards. Often a player will have his regular card, then they will do, say, 500 of that same card with a different color border, and they’ll number then out of 500 so you know you have the limited edition. They also put the printing plates into circulation. These are three metal versions of the card that they claim to actually use in the process of printing the card. There is only one of each of the three.
At the height of my collecting, late 2014, I found this on eBay.
This is a framed mini card (my favorite type of card). The card itself is about the size of a tobacco card, and it’s encased in plastic, and then a cardboard border to make it the same dimensions as a standard baseball card. This is the printing plate for a 2011 mini. It says on the back that it’s card #5, but I have card #5, and it’s NOT that. I scoured every website that dealt with cards and I couldn’t find ANY evidence of this card existing. I did find that there was a card, #385, that was a Chapman found inside of a rip card. This is a regular-dimension card but thicker with a pull tab on the back. You can choose to pull the tab, lowering the value, but MAYBE there’s something inside worth even more.
However, even armed with this suspicion, nothing. I even offered a bounty for proof of existence and nothing.
Here we are, nearly 11 years later, and a few weeks ago a hit on my eBay search. I found it! I was indeed correct that it was from inside a rip card, and someone had it for sale! I went back and forth for a while because he was asking a lot for it. But in the end, I couldn’t resist. I made him an offer (still too much) and he took it.
Yesterday, it arrived.
I can’t believe it took over a decade.
And as you can see, the printing plate is a liar:
It’s not 5, it’s 385. Whatever. Stupid lying sticker.
As an added bonus, this has inspired me to try to sell off the collection, aside from a few favorites. They just take up space. I was hoping his new contract with the Red Sox would bump his popularity enough to get some interest in the cards, but so far that has not really been the case. Anyone want to buy some Chapmans? I’ve got some really nice stuff…
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10 Most Valuable Baseball Cards from the 1990s — A Complete Guide #BaseballCards #SportsCards #TheHobby #Baseball medium.com/@heelextensi...
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Just pulled off what looked like a drug deal in a Wawa parking lot.
For a box of 1995 Topps Stadium Series baseball cards.
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My baseball card collection stalled out at about four. This 1993 Fleer features the Martínez brothers and speculates that "the Martinezez may be the top pitching pair of the '90s." Since we live in the future, we can assess this claim. Did the prediction come true? Almost. #baseball #dodgers #baseballcards -
Throwback Thursday – June 5, 2025
Looking back to my first baseball game of 2025 and the baseball card set of the ‘25 Cleveland Guardians I got.
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Four vintage baseball cards
YOU CAN FIND IT HERE: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/four-vintage-baseball-cards-patricia-hofmeester.html
By https://buff.ly/3i3uCm2 #homedecor #LoveArt #photography #mastoart #finearts #photography #artforsale #wallartforsale #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #giftideas #baseballcards #baseball #vintage #cards #historical #four
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The entire ML backend relies on ML.NET and ONNX models (exported from YOLO).
Super impressed with the speed+performance of ML.NET doing inference against ONNX models. I've only *needed* to use the "small" models (9.2MM params) and CPU inference through Blazor for ~150ms inference.
I've been using the YoloDotNet package which handles the input/output parameter mapping for YOLOv11/12 exported ONNX models.
Super fun stuff!
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Wish I had saved wrappers from older packs, but never thought of it until '86.
And those 9-pocket pages, the plastic is now in those kid's brains. Had a few and did not age well. Actually, I *still* have them.
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#Baseball star #ShoheiOhtani seeks $325,000 worth of #baseballcards from his ex-interpreter