Metal makes my mind spin

I can't deny it, metal may be my favorite genre of music. Play it proud, turn it loud. While Metallica is the headline group that many people think of, I was always a Pantera guy myself.  Cowboys From Hell is to this day one of my top 5 albums I would take to an island if I could only ever listen to 5 albums again.

One thingI never noticed regarding my Cutch card collection before was a small subtle change that Topps did when producing their extremely limited 1993 Finest All-Star Metal versions produced in 2013.

The produced the metal version upside down compared to it's original version.

Both versions scanned in the same way based on their backs.

Was this an oops on Topps or did they do this on purpose to distinguish the cards apart? What are your thoughts?

Lets look at that Metal Finest again

Birth of Retro Greatness

Many of us have fond vivid memories of our childhood. For me when I think of my childhood, it's canvas photo albums filled with pages full of 1987 Topps, Fleer, and Donruss baseball cards watching Thundercats and running around with a towel wrapped around my neck saying "I'm Batman."  Sometimes these events happened seperately, but as I remember it, they all happened simultaneously often on a daily basis.

Now, nearly 30 years later I still think I am Batman and love to collect those retro designed baseball cards. 

The cardboard from the 80s and early 90s, like many of us, is what got me into collecting baseball cards.

Here are all the Andrew McCutchen cards I own based on original card designs from my birth year

1981 Donruss (2015 Donruss)

1982 Donruss (2016 Donruss)

1983 Topps (2015 Archives)

1983 Topps All-Star (2013 Archives)

1985 Topps (2013 Archives)

1986 Topps (2014 Archives)

1987 Topps (2011 mini and two versions of 5x7s from 2015 Topps)

1989 Bowman (2014 Bowman is Back diamond refractor)

1989 Topps (2014 Chrome Refractor)

1989 Topps (2014 Topps Diecuts)

1991 Donruss Studio (2013 Black Friday Studio '13)

1991 Topps (2016 Archives)

1992 Bowman (2010 Bowman Throwbacks)

1993 Topps Finest All Stars (2013 Finest)

1994 Topps Finest (2014 Finest)

I didn't include cards produced from 1997-2009 because I wasn't collecting during that time. So even though there have been retro style cards of Gold Class and Topps Tek featuring Cutch I won't be highlighting them in this post.

How many cards do you own of your favorite player representing styles of cardboard originally produced after your birthyear?