Cardboard Fenway: 1977 Renata Gallasso Stars of the Fifties Jackie Jensen

Cardboard Fenway - #60. 1977 Renata Gallasso Stars of the 1950s Jackie Jensen

Hard to say if this was taken at Fenway Park, but Jackie Jensen's in his home whites, so I'm making an assumption here.

Cardboard Fenway: 1977 Topps Butch Hobson (RC)

Cardboard Fenway - #47. 1977 Topps Butch Hobson (RC)

No, Butchie ain't at Fenway. I wanted to include this card because it shows off the mean patch on his left shoulder for the Massachusetts tricentennial (1677–1977).

Cardboard Fenway: 1977 Renata Gallasso Stars of the Fifties George Kell

Cardboard Fenway - #7. 1977 Renata Gallasso Stars of the 1950s George Kell

Here's a question for you: Is George Kell smiling in this photo? The only thing I'm sure of is that that's one of the light towers on the Green Monster behind him.

Cardboard Fenway: 1977 Hostess Carlton Fisk

Cardboard Fenway - #38. 1977 Hostess Carlton Fisk

Though not taken at Fenway Park, Fisk's home white warm-up jersey is as close as he got to a photo taken in his home whites.

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Here's a question: How many shots did it take for Al Oliver to settle on this bat?

Also, if he ran out of bats, would he have posed holding a metal folding chair?





You may have been wondering: what happened to Ben, and why doesn't he post as much as he used to? Well, a lot is going on. I work two jobs, I teach blogging at MIT on weekends, and I'm winding down as a baseball card blogger.

I know I've made a number of different assertions as to the future of The Baseball Card Blog, but here's the truth:

I will stop writing The Baseball Card Blog as of January 1, 2009, if not sooner. The blog itself will stay up as a fully tagged and searchable archive of everything I've written over the past three years.

I've thought long and hard about this, and I've decided that The Baseball Card Blog needs to end. In my opinion, the best card blogs are those with a finite topic. For example, the stellar 1988 Topps Blog, where Andy K posts something about each and every card in the 1988 Topps and Topps Traded sets. When the sets end, the blog ends. It makes sense. But an open-ended blog about one collector reminiscing and finding his way back into the hobby he once loved? Three years is enough of that for me.

I'm not really interested in writing about the latest hobby trends, or new cards that I can't afford. When I really think about it, those are the very things that caused my interest to wan in the first place. I will still collect, and will remain open to trading. I will remain as the admin contact at A Pack A Day, as well as our brand new vlog spin-off APADtv.


Finally, I know I've made it a point to stick to the script on baseball cards, but I thought I'd make an exception. If you are vegan or enjoy vegan food and live in the San Francisco Bay Area, do yourself a favor and take a look at this new blog: Vegansaurus!. And if you've never tried vegan food, it's better than you think!