Don Sutton

With the Astros leaving the National League here is a great look at Astros uniform when they were at their best. I know that they went to the World Series in 2005 but the 1980 Astros were probably their best team. It is odd looking at Don Sutton in an Astro uniform. Sutton is the poster boy for non-Hall a Famers who are Hall of Famers.

Another great shot of cheerleaders abs in 2012 Score Football: Andre Roberts

As with a previous post about Malcolm Floyds 2012 Score Football Card - I found another 2012 Score Football Card that shows a Cheerleader with a great pair of abs (?- are abs in pairs? I dont know because I dont have any). This is in action shot too.  I believe that is a Cardinal Cheerleader.

I love looking at Duke Snider's year by year statistics.

From ages 22 to 25 Duke Snider put up some nice stats for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Having at least 21 HR and 92 RBI every year. Then from 1953-1957 Duke went on one of the most incredible and unique 5 year runs in baseball statisical history.

1953 (42-126-.336)
1954 (40-130-.341)
1955 (42-136-.309)
1956 (43-101-.292)
1957 (40- 92-.274)

I don't think any player finished in the 40s for Home Runs for 5 years in a row.  I doubt any player has even been within 3 home runs seasonly over a five year period. Also, you can see that Duke's statistics were slowly decreasing.

Then at age 31. Duke career fell off the face of the earth. Parly because of age, partly because of injuries and partly because of the LA Coliseum. Because of the dimension of the Coliseum Duke's power numbers were diminished.

1958 (15-58..312)
1959 (23-88-.308)
1960 (14-36-.243)

I think don't think any other player in history was diminshed like Duke from a change of scenery like him going  from the Polo Grounds to the LA Coliseum.

Hey Keith Law, Ryan Howard is good and deserves his money

The Phillies were 37-48, before Howard played this year and they are 38-26 since he started playing. They even lost the first 3 games he played in. There are some experts that rip his contract and devalue his RBI's but this dude is good and the Phillies have been about the best team in Baseball since 2007. Howard has been the leader of the team. RBI's matter and that is what he does. He drives in runs and the Phillies win and that has been going on for a long time now.

This was the first card I saw when I bought my first pack of 2008 Topps. The 2008 Topps set is probably my favorite in the last 20 years or so.

Hey Panini, Basketball is a vertical game leave the Horizontal cards out

Ever since the 1971 Topps Baseball set we have had many sets with veritical and horizontal cards. I personally hate this. I especially agreed that horizontal cards have no place in Basketball cards. 2012-13 Prestige would have been a great set without the horizontal cards. This looks like half a card.

Would you rather see an obscure Youtube video or Topps less Photos of Kate. I say Kate

I would rather see Top Less photos of Kate Middleton and Kate Upton.

I have not seen the photos but I would not close my eyes if they appeared in front of me. I have seen a couple of youtube videos of Kate Upton. OMG.  There are interesting developments all over the world now. A lot of it has to do with images. What are images and who controls the rights to the images. Who controls the rights to personal likeness. Property rights. Freedom of speech (you can't scream fire in a crowded movie theatre) This even effects sports card (Panini Logo less cards  baseball cards- No Topps Matt Weiters card. This appears to be a developing story.

Hey Topps, where is Brett Lawrie rookie card logo on his Finest Card

There is something amiss here. What is missing is Lawrie rookie card logo. He had one on his Topps and Bowman cards but it is missing here. Why is that. A mistake, oversight, confusion, don't card. Who knows.