A post that is a day late and the last card Mays offend some people

Happy (belated) 90th Birthday Willie Mays!

Willie May will forever be one of the greatest baseball players to ever play the game.

Above is an unlicensed card from Hits Memorabilia featuring three of the top 25 centerfielders to ever play the game (at keast according to a 2018 poll where Mays was ranked 1st, Griffey 3rd, and McCutchen 22nd)

It is my only Willie Mays relic and was worn at an old timers game for the Mets.

I also have this 2015 Topps Heritage New Age Performers card that features a sweet image of Cutch on the front

and a nice writeup about Willie Mays on the back

Its hard to believe that it was only 6 years ago that Cutch was leading the league with a .952 OPS.  It feels like forever.

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My favorite Willie Mays card in my collection is a NL Leaders card that features 3 All Time Greats

I wrote about it on Chasing3000 way back in 2018.

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With it being Willie Mays birthday yesterday, Topps used that opportunity to showcase the newest Alex Pardee Project 70 card and it features none other than Willie Mays.

The odd thing is that he is featured as a werewolf.

Does anyone understand this?  I have never seen an image of Mays with any facial hair, let alone werewolf status.  

I understand that Pardee really dives into his love of comic books for his art, but if he wanted to make a werewolf for the project why not use someone like Bryce Harper or even Brian Wilson?  Both those guys are known to have some pretty intense facial hair.

I did buy the Pardee Mays card because I am collecting the Pardee and Jamieson artist sets to get the posters.  

Have you bought any Project 70 cards?

What is your favorite Willie Mays card in your collection?

I F'd Up

Yesterday's post was loaded with errors.  

I am ashamed and actually laughed aloud at some of my stupid mistakes. 

Thank you all for pointing out the errors!

U.S. History is not one of my strengths.

I F'd Up.  Plain and simple

Here is a partial scan of one of my more unique cards to show how embarrassing it is to F*** up.

It is a 1/1 Game worn jersey logo patch from Hits Memorabilia Royalty release.  I showed it off last year when discussing Florida reopening many tourist attractions as the Coronavirus Pandemic was destroying the economy in the state. 

Unfortunately the card I am using to emphasize the letter F also has an error on it.

If you recognize the FL logo as being a sleeve patch from the Florida Grapefruit League, you are correct.  Grapefruit League games are played beginning in February and end in March.  Therefore it isn't possible that a Florida Spring Training patch would be worn on April 29th, 2016.

The card like my history knowledge is FLawed.

All Eyes on Florida

The Coronavirus took the entire world by storm, shutting down most businesses for months on end.  Things are slowly starting to get back to normal, albeit with wearing masks.

Baseball and basketball have begun practicing to resume a season.

Many retailers have begun to open their doors again while still practicing social distances.

Movie theatres are planning to open back up at the end of the month.

The big news though is that Disney World, the world's largest theme park is planning to open their doors again today.

Some other theme parks have already reopened, but none of them have the tourist attraction and expectations that Disney World carries.

All eyes will indeed be on Florida today to see how Orlando handles the opening of tourism while housing the entire NBA in a bubble type area.

This is one of the cooler design patches I have of Cutch.  It is a 1/1 from Hits Memorabilia and features the large FL for Florida Grapefruit League worn on Spring Training jerseys.

It has information on the back to see the actual jersey and authenticy via their website.

The Cobra Strikes

These MLB Network feature documentaries can be so emotional.

It is a good reminder that we are all human and no matter how great of an athlete you once were, Father Time eventually catches up.  I am grateful for the opportunity to have seen Parker before his Parkinson's got bad.

God Bless You Mr. Parker!!!

Way back in 2013 I showed off a bunch of my autographs and relics of Dave Parker on my old blog Piratestreasureroom.  I jave since doubled that number.

Who likes buttons? BUTTON SHOW OFF POST

Who likes buttons?

I do.

I currently have 10 button cards of Cutch and scanned them in two lots.

5 are designed vertically

And 5 are designed horizontally

Sorry for the upside down scan of Marte dual button.  I didn't notice it until I had already begun this post.

The button cards range in rarity to /6 to 1/1s.

Here they are all individually.

The Archer's Quest: 4 New Additions

I picked up four new Chris Archer cards recently.  One is from Hits Memorabilia and features the E in ARCHER from a Rays uniform (top right).  The other three are from 2019 Topps Heritage.  I have the mini (top left).  I also picked up the black border and black chrome.

Steel McCutchen impresses a Hall of Famer

Andrew McCutchen posted a video on his Instagram a few days ago of his son, Steel, hitting off a tee.

It was enough to impress, McCutchen's childhood idol, Ken Griffey Jr, to reply.

There has been many articles written about how Cutch grew up watching Griffey play and how Griffey thinks that McCutchen is the best player in the game today that resembles how he played the game.

I thought it would be appropriate to show off the few relic cards I have of both Griffey and Cutch.

Up first is this triple jersey of Griffey, Cutch, and Willie Mays.

This is the only Willie Mays relic I own and unfortunately it is the pants from a 1978 Mets uniform.

Like all of Hits Memorabilia cards, there is an online database that you can cross reference the material used for all their cards. 

This was the jersey used for the production of the card above and the following card below.

This is a super awesome card featuring 4 former MVP winners.  Lots of cool laundry tags and different looking swatches on this including the inner lining of a Harper hat and a Trout batting glove.

I know a lot of people love Bo Jackson and he was an outstanding athlete, but honestly I don't view him as that good of a baseball player.  Call it blasphemous, but through his age 27 season with the Kansas City Royals he posted only a career .787 OPS to that point.  Furthermore he struck out at a whopping 34.7% of his at bats. These were all BEFORE his football injury.  Stanton and Judge both have lower totals in their careers and they are the poster children for striking out in the current game. 

As for the 2 Hall of Famers on the card: Reggie Jackson and Griffey; yeah, that's pretty cool.  

A Yummy 3 Course Meal

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month.  Visit the official site here.

Breast Cancer will be detected in one of eight women in the US each year.

It is the second leading cause of cancer death among women each year.

On average every 2 minutes a woman will be diagnosed with breast cancer and every 13 minutes one person will die from breast cancer.

There are currently 33 million breast cancer survivors in the USA.

It's important to support the research for cancer.  Breast Cancer is often associated with the color pink so I will be showing off some pink Cutch cards.

In addition, you can expect to see some boobs with each post.  Who doesn't love boobs?

So let's start with what we're hoping to save!

A few people suggested Giada De Laurentiis when I initially posed the question for who should be included in this year's #SaveTheBoobies event.

I didn't know that there was a Hall of Fame for culinary, but Giada was in the second year class of the Culinary Hall of Fame.

Giada has had numerous Food Network cooking shows in her career

and even occasionally appears on the Today show.

As most chefs know you want to satisfy your customer with a 3 course meal.

As satisfying as the HOF chef is, this three relic Triple Combo card of the former San Francisco Giant and his team mates is way more satisfying to me.

I was hoping that Cutch would get some jersey relics with other Giants players of past and present like Buster Posey, Willie Mays, Madison Bumgarner, etc in Topps products.  Unfortunately to the best of my knowledge only a Posey/McCutchen dual booklet has been produced so far.

Hunter Pence and Johnny Cueto are certainly welcomed additions to the collection though thanks to Hits Memorabilia 2018 Accolades release.  The Cueto is a hat relic and the Pence is a Giants Jersey.

The back of the card reminds me of a placemat found at any of the many 24 hour New Jersey diners.

Happy Cooking!

The National League Wild Card game is tonight between the Colorado Rockies and Chicago Cubs

Mays, Griffey, and Cutch

There is currently a ranker which lists Mays as #1, Griffey as #3, and Cutch as #22.  You can view it by clicking link above.

I have shown off some Hits Memorabilia cards in the past, but this is my very first Cutch relic that is paired up with the great Willie Mays.

What is interesting about this card is the way all three players respect each other.

Many say Willie Mays is the greatest centerfielder of all time.
Ken Griffey Jr. grew up watching his dad play and wanting to be like him.  Its been said he got #24 because of Mays though.

Cutch grew up being a big fan of Griffey.

After Griffey retired he was asked who his favorite baseball player in game was.  His response....Andrew McCutchen.

A few days ago things came full circle when Cutch got a chance to meet the legendary 24.

Here's the interview Griffey had about Cutch.

Now time to show off the card.

The Mays relic is a pants relic from a New York Mets game.

The back, like all other Hits Memorabilia cards, is quite lackluster.

It may not be officially licensed, but this card features 3 of the most prominent African American centerfielders of each generation.  With the amount of Griffey and Mays collectors out there, I'm happy to add this /5 card to the collection.