Sports Cards Ate My Brain

Leicester City wins the Barclay's Premier League championship a year after they were almost demoted.  Awesome! This is the only card I have of a current Leicester City player.  Huth has been huge playing as a central defender.

I've been watching the Braves games just to see how much they totally stink this year. I realized that they only have 3 home runs this year but was totally blown away when Chip Caray and Joe Simpson mentioned that it had been over 500 ABs since the Braves hit a home run. To put that in perspective, the Mets had 23 during their 9 game road trip. I got nothing else to say......

While looking at the Atlanta Journal Constitution online media today I spotted an article entitled Braves Poor Start Reaches Liberty Media Stockholders Meeting written by Tim Tucker. In this article Liberty Media Chairman John Malone is quoted as saying “Now, keep in mind the Braves now are a fairly major real-estate business as opposed to just a baseball club.” Any questions on why the Braves suck so badly this year?  Any questions as to why I stopped following them?  The quote refers to the area surrounding the new stadium that the club will be moving to for the 2017 season.  The Braves are an asset that allowed the company to get use of a nice piece of land in Cobb County.  The seem to see no reason to field a team that anyone will want to watch this year. I will not watch the Braves and will not go to a game unless a really beautiful single woman wants to treat me.  Even then I may have to take a few minutes to make the decision. Go Tigers!

Rest in peace

I have thousands of cards but they can all go except one 800 count box that has the cards I feel they must keep.  I would show you the next 3 cards in my George Brett keepers but I got a new laptop and all of the scans are on the old one.  I didn't think about this until I started top write this post. Oh well, back to Fallout 4.  

I've decided to highlight one card a year from George Brett's career plus a few from after he retired.  I've posted before that I saw him hit a home run and then, later in the game, start a brawl with the pitcher during a game at Tiger Stadium in 1980.  This made him my favorite player and I have actively collected his card over the years.  I have many more cards of him but, as part of my efforts to pare down my collection, I'm only keeping some of them. One can only start off a George Brett collection with his 1975 Topps Rookie Card: 1975 is not my favorite Topps set.  After many years of wavering about spending the money I bought this card off of E-bay.  Not sure why I waited so long. George was a solid but unspectacular hitter in the minor leagues as evidenced by the lack of .300 seasons shown here.  The red and green backs are not the easiest to read. George's second mainstream card, 1975 Topps highlights his first .300 season: My fi...

Say it ain't so! Enjoy your time in California, Andrelton.  I guess I'm an Angels fan now.