Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
Neat Topps Archives autograph card of Sal Bando. Bando spent 11 seasons with the Oakland Athletics and is one–if not the–best third baseman in franchise history. During his time with the club, he hit .255/.359/.418 with 192 HR, good for an OPS+ of 127. He was an All-Star four times[…]
Johan Santana was a very good pitcher and is a borderline Hall of Famer. Career record of 139-78 with a 3.20 ERA/136 ERA+ Was a one-time 20 game-winner and led the league in wins in 2006 with 19 Three-time ERA leader. Selected to four All-Star teams Won two Cy[…]
Despite Mark McGwire being an Oakland Athletics, and his home run chase taking part in the formative part of my youth…I don’t really consider myself a particularly huge fan. Still, I was able to get this card for a good price and jumped. Standard Batting Year Age Tm Lg G[…]
Barry Bonds. There is a world where this little collection of cards would be worth something. But this is not that world.
This was signed in Spring Training. Zach Plesac debuted with the Tribe in 2019 and more than held his own: over 115.2 innings he struck out 88, walked 40, and allowed 102 hits. Good for a 3.81 ERA/124 ERA+/1.228 WHIP. Good numbers. But I am a little worried about how[…]
Ryan Garko was always great hitter. He hit .350/.446/.591 during his four years at Stanford–including .380 his senior season. Despite his terrible glove, the Indians took him in the 3rd round of the 2003 draft. In 2004 he hit .330/.412/.565 between three levels, and was the Indians MiLB Player of[…]
I don’t much care for the Yankees. But I do like Aaron Judge. Even though he was a first-round pick by the Yankees in 2013 (32nd overall), I don’t think anyone was expecting THIS kind of production.
Despite that year with the Cubs…I really like Ben Zobrist. He has had a really great career and easily one of the more interesting players of the 2000s. Drafted in the 6th round by the Houston Astros in 2004 He was Top 20 prospect with the Astros, who thought that[…]
Josh Bell was the Pirates 2nd round pick of the 2011 draft out of Dallas Jesuit College Prep. While moving up through the Pirates organization he was considered one of the better prospects in baseball. Between 2011 and 2016 he was ranked one of the Pirates Top 10 prospects six[…]
The Philadelphia Phillies signed Vicente Padilla in 1998, an international free agent from Nicaragua. He made the majors in 1999 and would spend 14 seasons in the big leagues. During his peak in the big leagues, roughly from 2002-2009, he was a classic #3 starter. Eating up 200 innings and[…]