A Return With Rockin' Robin

2013 was an....interesting...year.  I had several unexpected events come up, some of which pretty much eliminated my card budget, and so I dropped off the blogging map.  The good news is I made it through all the stress of last year, and I'm hoping to pick up where I left off here at the blog (at least on a limited basis).

To that end, I made my first eBay purchase in quite a while and added this cool Robin Yount card to my Brewers collection:

I've really grown to like these patch cards, even if they are "manufactured relics" - I just think a lot of them look cool!  Too bad there isn't a Paul Molitor card to go with it...

I also lucked out on price - I saw most of these listed for $12-$15, but I managed to snag mine for just $7 including shipping.

Somebody at Topps Screwed Up!

I got my 36-pack box of the new Topps set (details next post!), and as I was collating the cards I noticed Topps did a little something special this year to start the set.  After card #1 (Bryce Harper) the cards have matching jersey numbers and card numbers.  For example, here's card #2:

 And card #8:

 And #19:

 This goes on for quite a while. Take a gander at cards #45, 59 and 74:

 But in the middle of this is card #23, with Jemile Weeks very conspicuously NOT being jersey #23....

I guess somebody at Topps didn't think too hard when told to "put Weeks on card #23."  :)