The Baseball Stories
Here is a list of links to the baseball related stories that have appeared on Four Baggers. This would be the Four Baggers side, with a little of the Foreclosures side here and there. I tried to separate these stories into categories, but in many cases, the subjects covered may fall into several categories. So they are filed under where they best fit.
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Baseball Card Set Specific
Post 61 - 1981 Donruss - Top Whatever
On a whim, I bought a wax box off ebay, just to see what ripping 1981 Donruss was like.
Post 58 - 1981 Fleer - Top Whatever
In the interest of fairness, I also bought a wax box off ebay, to compare it to 1981 Fleer.
Post 64 - 1991 Stadium Club Top Whatever
One of the most iconic set in my collecting timeline.
Post 117 - 1993 Finest Refractors
This story was linked in a very popular thread on Reddit, making it (by far) my most read baseball story.
Post 76 - 1994 Bowman Top Whatever
Bowman's first full bleed photo set, one of my all time favorites under the brand.
Post 17 - 1994 Classic Minor Leagues
An underrated and very nice set, put out by a card company no one has much respect for.
Post 97 - Oliver Chases 1996 Topps Laser
A eulogy for my cat that had to be put down, with an extended look at a set many people have forgotten about.
Post 276 - 2002 Topps Total
Ripping a box of 2002 Topps Total, while on vacation in Delaware! (And Washington DC...)
Post 26 - 2002 UD Authentics
Short appreciation of a set that tried to tickle the nostalgia vibes, but whiffed on the details. However, it did lead to one of my best pack rips I've ever had.
Post 31 - 2008 UD Spectrum and Beyond Shinders
A look at the incredible luck I had with just a handful of packs of a forgettable Upper Deck brand. Mixed in with the failed re-lauch of an iconic Minneapolis newstand/card store.
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And the newer stuff...
These are stories dedicated to covering new product, as I bought it. Some may or may not have additional card stories mixed in with the "current" subject matter.
Post 42 - 2017 Topps Chrome Value Pack
Post 47 - 2017 Topps Update Hangers
Post 49 - 2017 Bowman Chrome Mini Box
Post 51 - 2017 Topps Gallery
Post 53 - 2017 Topps Heritage High Numbers
I bought the same packs from Target, then WalMarts, and compared the results.
Post 69 - 2018 Topps Heritage
Post 81 - 2018 Bowman Ohtani Lottery
Post 95 - 2018 Topps Chrome Box
Post 107 - 2018 Bowman Disappointment -er Draft
Post 113 - 2019 Topps Jumbo Box
Post 115 - 2019 Topps Heritage
Post 123 - 2019 Donruss
Post 126 - 2019 Topps Series 2 Jumbo Box
Post 127 - 2019 Stadium Club Top 2
Post 135 - 2019 Allen & Ginter Box
Post 142 - 2019 Topps Update Box
Post 145 - 2019 Bowman's Best
Post 151 - 2020 Topps Series 1
Post 162 - 2020 Bowman
Post 166 - 2020 Topps 2
Post 169 - 2020 Topps Heritage
Post 178 - 2020 Topps Update
Post 183 - 2021 Topps vs 1954 Bowman
Post 184 - 2021 Donruss and Shohei Ohtani
Post 187 - 2021 Bowman and More
Post 193 - 2021 Topps Silver Pack
Post 196 - 2020 Bowman Heritage
Post 197 - Pack of 2021 Bowman Chrome Lights Box
Post 202 - 2021 Bowman Draft Day
Post 206 - 2022 Topps Series 1
Post 216 - 2021 Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary
Post 236 - 2023 Topps Series 1
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Montreal Expos
My favorite team. And they don't exist anymore.
Post 4 - Why Are You An Expos Fan?
An explanation of why, was posted when 4 Baggers was less than 50 hours old.
Post 7 - 2004 Topps Total Expos
Reviewing a team set.
Post 36 - 1995 Stadium Club Montreal Expos
Reviewing a team set. This one stings. Most of the 1994 Expos roster, with a gold 1995 World Series stamp on it. Which was won by the Atlanta Braves. And you know how I feel about them.
Interesting find at a sports card shop that just rubbed me the wrong way.
Post 109 - Expos ExMess
Laura gave me a bunch of cool Expos stuff for X-Mess.
Post 27 - Free Expos in the Mail
Post 139 - Archives Expos Nationals Senators
Looking at the 2019 Topps Archives Expos insert set, cast against our vacation to (partially) Washington DC. The Nationals had not yet won the 2019 World Series, when this was posted with my fingers crossed.
Post 264 - New Old ebay Expos With Zeal
A big catch all mix of new card additions, headlined by an autographed Todd Zeile Expos card. When just weeks prior, I was unaware of ANY Todd Zeile Expos cards.
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Minnesota Twins
The team I grew up watching, and am back watching. Source of baseball love and frustration, fed by the angst of it being my backup after the Expos. A second dagger comes in the form of Minnesota Twins ownership 2001 suicide pact with the Expos under MLB's full support. Yeah, I follow the Twins...
But the Twins are the abusive partner.
Post 274 - 1961 MN Twins Program
Looking at the game program and scorecard, filled out on the final game of the 1961 season, against the Detroit Tigers. Mixed in with my incomplete 1961 Topps Twins team set.
Post 119 - 1969 MN Twins Program
Looking at the game program and scorecard, from a game in 1961 season, against the Oakland Athletics.
Post 120 - 1978 Bill Frisz MN Twins
Looking at an old team issued card set of retired Twins players.
Post 153 - 1988 Bill Frisz MN Twins
Looking at an old team issued card set of the 1987 Minnesota Twins. Issued to salute their World Series victory. MLB forced them to cease sale as they conflicted with something legal. I blame Topps.
Post 18 - Don Baylor and the 1987 Twins
Post 3 - Twins Postgame Autographs
My third story was intended to be a recurring feature about getting autographs at the Metrodome, before and after late 1980's games. I never wrote any additional stories.
Post 37 - 2004 Twins New Stadium Team Set
Team issued set promoting the 2003 AL Central winning team, and promotional drawings of the new stadium model they had developed. There are some similarities to what Target Field ended up being.
There's a few stories about individual players.
Post 103 - Joe Mauer Retires
Post 136 - Brusdar Graterol Arrives
Post 201 - Byron Buxton New Contract Top Whatever
Post 204 - David Ortiz HOF Whatever
Post 211 - Royce Lewis
And a few stories about the actual games.
Post 98 - Almost Perfect - Twins vs Royals
We attended an inconsequential game against the Kansas City Royals and nearly saw a Perfect Game.
Post 208 - 2022 MN Twins Season Preview
Post 215 - Twins vs Rockies
A Colorado Rockies appearance at Target Field, with baseball cards and Sesame Street.
Post 221 - Topps Chrome Museum Fire
Laura and I sat in the right field home run porch for a game against the Angels, in September 2022. Getting to see both Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. Mixed in with recent card purchases
Post 242 - Twins vs Padres
Laura and I sat in the front row between third base and left field home for a game against the Padres. Thank you Fernando Tatis for close a play at third, while I'm eating a Target Field cheeseburger.
Which was pretty good.
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Colorado Rockies
While the Colorado Rockies are also a poorly run organization, with them, I never took it personal. Sadly, they because hard to support and easier to mock. I lived in Denver between 1996 and 2018, so I watched a lot of Colorado Rockies baseball. They were entertaining, but not always in the intended way.
Post 10 - 1993 Colorado Rockies
Some batting practice photos from a Colorado Rockies exhibition game against the Twins, in the Metrodome. Days before they'd play their first ever MLB game, in 1993.
Post 34 - Bad Jokes and Bad Rockies
Don't take this seriously, just having fun...
Post 269 - 1998 Pacific Online Colorado Rockies
Long sought after team set.
Stories about particular Rockies players:
Post 132 - Troy Tulowitzki Retires
Post 149 - Larry Walker HOF
Larry Walker became the Rockies first Hall of Famer. I whatever his top 33 Rockies and top 33 Expos cards.
Post 182 - Nolan Arenado
Post 262 - Todd Helton & Joe Mauer HOF Whatever
Todd Helton became the Rockies second Hall of Famer. Along with some former Minnesota Twins guy...
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Miscellaneous Baseball Stories
Stories that cover multiple baseball subjects...
Post 13 - 2017... Meh...
How I felt about 2017 baseball cards.
Post 14 - The Big Sort
A summer 2017 update on sorting progress.
Does it ever end?
Post 24 - My Top 12 Retail Hits
Ranking the best cards I've ever pulled from retail packs.
A list that would be drastically different today, vs 2017...
Post 38 - A Blaster and Hooray For Me!
2017 Stadium Club blaster to celebrate a month of not smoking cigarettes.
Yeah... That lasted...
Post 78 - Team Set Bonanza
Went a bit Expos, Rockies and Twins team set wacky on ebay.
Post 80 - Happy May
A story about driving around Denver, taking pictures, with new card purchases mixed in. This was a month before we left Colorado, and I was trying to pack in as much future writing material as I could.
Post 88 - Abandoned Ohtani Building Bowman
A related story from a couple weeks later. This time a different part of town and some actual 2018 Bowman retail packs.
Post 99 - A Jacked-Up Retail Hit!
An autograph that I didn't know I wanted until I pulled it.
Post 131 - New Card Clean Up - 1955-1970
A vintage buying spree at the LCS.
Post 140 - Washington Nationals World Champions
The ex-Expos are world champions!
Post 163 - Topps Magazine - Spring 1993
A look at a copy of Topps Magazine, found in a box of stuff from my parents house.
Post 171 - Beckett Almanac
A book report on the massive annual Beckett book of everything baseball cards. Say what you want about Beckett, this is a valuable resource.
Post 179 - 2020 Baseball Top Whatever
Review of 2020 baseball card releases and what I got from them.
Post 230 - 2022 Baseball Top Whatever
Review of 2022 baseball card releases and what I got from them.
Post 249 - Summer State of the Collection
Sorting old cards and buying new cards, in the summer of 2023.
Post 164 - 2020 MLB Draft
Watching the 2020 MLB Draft, hoping to match picks to Panini product.
Post 217 - 2022 MLB Draft - Panini Prospecting
Another live MLB Draft watch and Panini mash-up.
Post 247 - 2023 MLB Draft - Panini USA
My third live MLB Draft watch with Panini matches.
Post 108 - Bob and Bob and Bob the Duck
Saluting Wasted Quarter's very own cartoon farting duck, with baseball cards of players named Bob.
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Sports Card Stores
Stories about card stores I've visited and/or frequented
Post 55 - Sweet Spot Goes Sour
A sad Upper Deck Sweet Spot autograph from Unfriendly's Dickish Collectables.
Post 71 - The Big Trade - Top Whatever
I traded about 22,000 stars, semi-stars, rookies and inserts to Mike's Stadium Sports Cards, in Aurora, Colorado. I received a nice stash of Expos, Twins and Rockies cards in exchange.
Post 111 - Three Stars Sportscards
A look at the new Expos, Twins and Rockies cards from this now closed card store, in Roseville, MN.
Post 100 - Duluth part 1
Post 101 - Duluth part 2
Laura and I took a vacation in Duluth, MN. Part of which was hitting up Globe News, in Superior, Wisconsin, for a big bunch of new Expos, Twins and Rockies cards.
Post 267 - Fan Zone St Cloud
How about some new Expos, Twins and Rockies cards from St. Cloud, MN.
I lost my LCS in November 2023. It was less than 2 miles from where I lived since we moved from Colorado, back to our hometown. Pal's Sports Cards was a major contributor to my collection from 2018-2023. Since that was the time frame that coincides with 4 Baggers, it was written about a lot.
Post 48 - Not My Story, or Trevor Story, Part 1
Cards purchased during our November 2017 drive from Denver to Minneapolis and back. And what an unmitigated disaster that became.
Post 94 - Cards From My Pal's
Post 106 - National Hobby Store Day
Post 175 - 1955 Bowman & 2020 St Louis Cardinals
Opening a "pack" of 1955 Bowman, and some other card shop purchases.
Post 258 - Pal's Closes
Eulogy for the store. Pushed out in the name of Kung Fu.
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The Junk Wax Prospector
A series about prospects I collected during the Junk Wax Era. The cards I have and how they turned out.
Post 9 - JWP - McCarty David - Twins
Post 15 - JWP Kevin Mmahat - Yankees
Post 23 - JWP - David Nied - Rockies
Post 30 - JWP - Barber Brian - Cardinals
Post 44 - JWP - Sam Militello - Yankees
Post 66 - JWP - Ugueth Urbina - Expos
Post 159 - JWP - Chuck Knoblauch - Twins
Post 213 - JWP - Kevin Maas - Yankees
Post 234 - JWP - Todd Van Poppel - Athletics
Post 245 - JWP - Archi Cianfrocco - Expos
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Random Top Loader
Another series where I use a complex formula involving my old Dungeons & Dragons dice, to choose a random card stored in the Top Loader boxes.
Post 173 - RTL - 1995 Select Greg Maddux Artist Proof
Post 189 - RTL - 1993 Topps Gold Derek Jeter
Post 227 - RTL - 1971 Topps Baltimore Orioles Team Card
Post 271 - RTL - One From All 31 Teams
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MLB Players
Stories about one specific non-Twins, Expos or Rockies player
Post 226 - Wasted Quarter Presents Darryl Strawberry
So stupid...
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Card Shows
Stories about baseball card shows I've attended.
Post 124 - St Cloud Card Show
Post 191 - Valley West Mall Card Show
Post 252 - St Francis Card Show
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Repacks
Sometimes you just want to throw some money at a random baseball flashback... You're not getting rich on repacks, but they can be a lot of fun!
Post 73 - Opening Day Fairfield Repack
Post 90 - Presstine Marketing Inc
Post 92 - PressTine II - Ohtani's Repack Revenge
Post 158 - 2020 Fairfield RePacks
Post 174 - Gavin Lux Fairfield 2020 Whatever
Post 223 - Great 2022 Fairfield Repack Whatever
Post 260 - 2024 Fairfield New Years Whatever
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Jay Buckley
An ongoing series of baseball stories, from attending Jay Buckley's Baseball Tours, between 1992 and 1996.
Post 21 - Jarry Park and the 1976 Montreal Expos
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Non Baseball Card Stories
A small smattering of card related, non-baseball stories.
Post 156 - Garbage Pail Kids
Post 222 - Joe Senser's Sports Bar n Grill
Post 233 - 1994 Ultra Beavis & Butthead
Post 280 - 1985 Transformers Action Cards Top Whatever
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