RED SOX FAN IN NEBRASKA

Recently I did a post about a set covering the 1967 Red Sox Impossible Dream season.  Unfortunately, not every player who played for the t...

As with the last player in this series, Andy Morales, Jerry Sands never actually played with the Red Sox, and his only card with the Red S...

In the 1990's there started to be an influx of players defecting from Cuba and coming to the U.S. to play.  Rene Arocha, Livan Hernand...

I have no idea how this card happened.  Hall, not related to Bill Hall who played for Boston in 2010, never played in the Majors at all.  ...

Technically, I have two cards of Kelly Johnson, but since one of them is a parallel of this card, I am still counting this. Johnson is o...

I have no idea how this happened.  Of all the players over the years to play for the Red Sox, how did Topps decide to include a card of Ca...

I recently read the book about Terry Francona's time managing the Red Sox from 2004 to 2011, written by Francona and Dan Shaughnessy. ...

Middle relievers just do not get enough cards these days.  Seanez had a long 17-year career and he has fewer than 80 cards, and yes, that ...

I have mentioned before that Topps seems to find one outside-the-box choice for the Red Sox almost every year for the Update set.  Players...

I used to count team cards when determining how many cards of each player I had.  It got to be too tedious.  I had to keep track of every...

What is even worse than the fact that Pedro Ciriaco only has one card issued with the Red Sox (other than parallels) is that you can not e...

Paul Byrd was a lot of fun to watch.  His wind-up was a throwback to a bygone era.  Byrd would swing both arms behind his back while takin...

Casey Kotchman was once one of the hottest prospects in baseball.  He was the 13th overall pick in the 2001 draft by the Angels and made h...

During the 2006 stretch run, the Red Sox found themselves decimated by injuries.  The injury with the most repercussions was the injury to...

Quilvio Veras?  Yep, Quilvio Veras.  But, don't go poring over his career statistics looking for how he did in Boston.  You will not f...

Like Willie Banks, Bob Howry is a reliever who would not have a Red Sox card were it not for Upper Deck 40 Man.  Howry had been the White ...

I have mentioned before how much I loved Upper Deck 40 Man.  Without it, we would never have a Red Sox card of players like Willie Banks h...

When we were growing up, my little brother was a Toronto Blue Jays fan.  He stopped paying attention before becoming a teenager, for reaso...

Tim Young's Major League career consisted of just 18 games over two seasons, spread across three years.  He was originally drafted by ...

Tim Harikkala is the definition of journeyman pitcher.  Originally drafted in 1992 by the Mariners, he actually made his Major League debu...