National Sunglasses Day

Since breaking into the league in 2009, Cutch has always had a sense of joy and swag wherever he played.

Here are a few cards featuring Cutch wearing sunglasses.

First I am going to show off an original piece of artwork by the extremely talented artist Josh Trout

2022 has seen my favorite low budget insert in a long time. Check out those shades!

2021 had an insert set called Stars in Service showing athletes in the community.

It also had a base card featuring Cutch sliding to make a catch for his base card in Series 2.

2020 introduced the world to a worldwide pandemic and the coolest sports card ever produced.

2019 Stadium Club had a photo variant of Cutch 

2016 Topps Triple Threads featured images of Cutch at the 2015 All Star Game

This is an original art card by Brian Kong and was used to produce the Museum Canvas Collection reprints from this original artwork. 

2014 Topps Archives 

2013 Topps Archives All Stars

2013 had photo variants of the top stars sporting their sunglasses.  The most famous is the Yu Darvish card featuring a pair of sunglasses that should be sent back in time.

2012 had a photo variant of Cutch at the All Star Game

2011 Tier One had an autograph with Adam Jones where Cutch is sporting shades atop his cap.

2005 Bowman Heritage saw him sport a pair of shades on his cap for the base, mini, and mahogany parallels.  It is strange That the photo variant doesn't feature sunglasses on the cap as it was likely from the same photo shoot.

It also saw the 2005 Bowman Heritage Signs of Greatness autographs to feature the sunglasses on the hat.

2005 Topps Chrome saw Cutch wearing the shades atop his head.

Do you have any sunglasses cards to show off? We could do a blog bat around if so.

National Sunglasses Day

June 27th was National Sunglasses Day. Details can be found here.

2013 Topps released a photo variant subset of top players wearing sunglasses.  Some of the names included were Prince Fielder, Felix Hernandez, Yu Darvish, Bryce Harper, Tim Lincecum, Mike Trout, Adam Jones, and Justin Upton.

 To celebrate National Sunglasses Day here is a card of Cutch wearing sunglasses.

Trying to keep my Kuhl

The Pirates bullpen which has been a part of the team's strength since 2011 has been abysmal this year.  Without looking at any stats I have to think they are near the bottom in holds.  There has been too many blown saves late innings.

A player I really like a lot is Chad Kuhl.  I feel like he would be perfect for the bullpen.  I still need my first autograph of Chad Kuhl.  If anyone comes across a Bowman auto of his for the cheap, keep me in mind.

Speaking of cool.

This Cutch card has a lot of swag.

It's the sunglasses variant from 2013 Topps.  Other players to have these variants include Justin Upton, Adam Jones, Tim Lincecum, Bryce Harper, Yu Darvish, Mike Trout, Felix Hernandez, Giancarlo Stanton, and Josh Reddick.