Football Sunday: Mean Joe Greene

The Steelers season has been a lot of highs and lows as they have put up crazy lopsided numbers against teams and also lost 3 of their games to sub .500 teams (Buccaneers, Saints, Jets).  The Steelers are a franchise that expects greatness since the 70s when they went on to win multiple Super Bowls over a short period of time.  One player who was recently aknowledged from that Dynasty era of Steelers football is Joe Greene.  Joe became just the 2nd Steeler ever to have his number retired despite having 22 players in the Hall of Fame.

I will start to announce my 2015 Collecting Goals over the next few weeks but one of the major goals of 2015 will be to add autographs of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Hall of Fame.  I'm hopeful that I can add 4 to the collection next year.

Stadium Club!!!

I have always loved Stadium Club.  It was one of my favorite sets for years when I was younger.

This year's set is no different.  I know I am behind on posting these and many others already have highlighted them.  I just wanted to show off their great photography

$15 Lil Man, put those team sets in my hand...

I've been on a roll adding some great ebay deals for $15 lately.  My latest acquisition is a bunch of Pirates 2014 team sets for $15 delivered.  For a winning bid of $11 I received complete or near complete team sets of 2014 Topps, 2014 Donruss, 2014 Topps Opening Day, 2014 Finest, 2014 Topps Heritage, 2014 Gypsy Queen, 2014 Bowman, 2014 Archives, 2014 Bowman Platinum and a few inserts as well.

Included were 3 really nice inserts or parallels of young outfield prospect Gregory Polanco

Also included were 4 different brands of cards using the same image of Pedro Alvarez.

Of course there were some Hall of Famers in there too with Clemente, Stargell, and Kiner all being represented.

Gerrit Cole made several appearances in the 102 card lot.
The white border Gypsy Queen is especially nice

A Nice Tyler Glasnow Purple Bowman Platinum was included

Along with a bunch of the Pirates top prospects (both hitting and pitching)

And of course it wouldn't be a Pirates lot if this guy didn't show up half a dozen times or more

Along with soooooo many others

Throwback Thursday: I completed a 69

If this title doesn't draw you in, maybe these two sweet 1969 cards of Hall of Famers Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski will.  The former Bucs greats were the last two cards I needed to complete my 1969 Topps Pirates Team Set and it ran me just shy of $18 to do so.

Both cards are in beautiful shape and feature no major creases, chipping, or writing.  Absolutely awesome deal I got for these two at my local sports collectors show at the mall.

Somewhere Near a Rainbow: Russell Martin Blue (Jays) Edition

I've been chasing a Russell Martin 2013 Topps Chrome rainbow for sometime and I have gotten down to needing very few thanks to my most recent COMC purchase.  I don't want to show them all in one post yet, but since Russ has recently signed with the Blue Jays, I thought it be best to show off the blue parallel.  I will continue to show off one a month until they are all shown.

Last month I showed off my Orange Refractor
Here's some others I have
Pink Refractor of Russ numbered /5
black numbered/100

camo numbered 10/15

gold numbered 34/50

red numbered 12/25 and sepia numbered 45/75

It's so Clear to me we need a Tony Tuesday

As the year is drawing towards the end, I think it's best that I show off nothing but sweet cards to end the year out.  Today's is a clear acetate parallel of the former 1st round draft pick and backup catcher for the Bucs entering the 2015 season.

I've previously stated how much I love this parallel when I showed off TWO Charlie Morton clear parallels I 've grabbed this year.  I hope Topps brings them back for 2015.

McCutchen Monday: Let's Go to a Museum

Last December I showed off a 2013 Topps Museum Canvas Collection card of Cutch.  Might as well start this December off the same way...

I present to you the 2014 Topps Museum Canvas Collection of Cutch.  Based on the artwork I believe these reprinted canvas collection were drawn by sketch artist Brian Kong.  If anyone has any information if this is correct, please let me know.