Card of the Week: Football & Screen Stars, Jim Brown

All right, should be some more posts this week, as a package arrived this afternoon.  More on that tomorrow, hopefully. This week’s Card of the Week honoring a football player who forged a career in acting is the man who started the trend of retiring early to do...

Card of the Week: Football & TV Stars, Fred Dryer

Continuing the theme from last week’s Gary Hogeboom card, this week’s football star turned actor is Fred Dryer. Dryer was a star at San Diego State University (a teammate of Rocky’s Carl Weathers) before being drafted in the first round by the New...

Card of the Week: 1987 Topps Gary Hogeboom

I’ve been reading a lot lately about football players wanting to become actors–Jason Taylor was on Dancing with the Stars, hoping to kick start a career in show business.  And Terrell Owens recently appeared on an episode of some ridiculous show starring...

My Thoughts on Price Guides…

Just came across a post on Sports Cards Uncensored, responding to a post on The Baseball Card Blog, regarding the state of price guides in the industry.  I started to leave a comment on SCU, but when I saw how long my comment was, I decided maybe it was worth a full...

Beckett…What Can I Say?

As of this morning, I was ready to write another post criticizing Beckett–no, not for their box break videos that feature apparently loaded boxes (I spread the blame equally between Beckett and the card companies on that one)–but rather because it was a...