Fun Cards: 1988 Topps Keith Millard (NFL, baseball-style)

Keith Millard was the 1989 AP Defensive Player of the Year and was a Pro Bowler in 1988 and 1989.

Fun Cards: 1988 Topps Boomer Esiason (NFL, baseball-style)

Introducing the 1988 NFL Most Valuable Player, Boomer Esiason. Norman Julius led the Bengals to the Super Bowl while leading all quarterbacks in passer rating and ten other offensive categories. Despite the heartbreaking loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIII, Boomer beat out Randall Cunningham, Roger Craig, Mike Singletary, Warren Moon, Keith Millard, and Herschel Walker for the Associated Press MVP Award.

Fun Cards: 1988 Topps Christian Okoye (NFL, baseball-style)

The Nigerian Nightmare was a blast to watch. Christian Okoye plowed through defenders like nobody’s business. I really wish his career had lasted longer. His breakout season wasn’t until 1989, but I couldn’t resist making a 1988 card for my all-time favorite Kansas City Chief. (Please don’t ask me to name any other Kansas City Chiefs players.)

Random Awesomeness (part 2019.15)

• ‘Star Wars’: Ewan McGregor in Talks for an Obi-Wan Kenobi Series for Disney+ [Hollywood Reporter]
• The Feats of Youngblood [Nine Pockets]
• A St. Louis Wolves card [From a 1980s Baseball Card Collector]
• 1986 Donruss “The Rookies:” A Cautionary Tale [SABR’s Baseball Cards Research Committee]
• Justin Bieber tweets at Shane Bieber after Topps baseball card mixup; Cleveland Indians extend first pitch invite [Cleveland.com]
• Mike Trout tracker, July edition: He’s now better than eight more Hall of Famers [ESPN]
• 30 Band Names Taken from Classic Rock Songs [Ultimate Classic Rock]

Purchase the Nylon Metal II from Thomas Zwijsen!
 

Random Awesomeness (part 2019.14)

I’ve been a bit busy lately with some projects that are non-blog related. But I’m still reading and Tweeting and collecting Random Awesomeness to share…

• ’56 of the month: Andy Seminick [Night Owl Cards]
• Angels No-Hit Tribute to Tyler Skaggs [Cards That Never Were]
• 2020 Topps is here [Cards That Never Were]
• 1988 All Star Game Honorary Captains: Bobby Doerr & Willie Stargell [Cards That Never Were]
• The 1967-68 Player Boycott of Topps [SABR’s Baseball Cards Research Committee]
• The Baseball Card Olympics [The Lost Collector]
• Joy of a purchased complete set: 1985 Topps Goonies [Baseball Card Breakdown]
• The Family’s All Here #GB20 [Jason Reitman’s Twitter]

Purchase the classic self-titled debut album from Georgia Satellites!
 

Random Awesomeness (part 2019.13)

• PC Holy Grail Alert! When you find a card with a piece of your childhood inside it! [TanManBaseballFan.com]
• 1987 All Star Game Honorary Captains: Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams [Cards That Never Were]
• Respect for ’74 [Night Owl Cards]
• Vintage Base Ball [n j w v]
• The 80 Greatest Movies of the ’80s [Consequence of Sound]
• very rare 35mm scan of the original teaser trailer for THE GOONIES [Annapurna Pictures on Twitter]
• Literary Book Title Generator [Writers Write]

Purchase the soundtrack for Yesterday
featuring a bunch of Beatles songs performed by Himesh Patel!
 

Random Awesomeness (part 2019.12)

• Dean Cain writing Lois & Clark ‘idea’ exploring Superman’s parenting skills [SyFy Wire]
• Henry Cavill to Play Sherlock Holmes Opposite Millie Bobby Brown in ‘Enola Holmes’ [Variety]
• The Black Keys and Raconteurs Take Rock Back to the Future [Rolling Stone]
• Victoria Pedretti To Headline ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ Netflix Series [Deadline]
• Sir Elton [Phantom Cardboard]
• The True Story of How Toy Story 4’s Forky Was Conceived, Written, Voiced, and Animated [Vulture]
• He-Man and She-Ra Little Golden Book interior preview images are here! [He-Man.org]

Purchase Let’s Rock by the Black Keys!
 

Random Awesomeness (part 2019.11)

• A Junior for All Seasons Part 1: the Kid on the Topps Designs of the 50’s [The Junior Junkie] (JT sez: This is an old post, but Topps’ recent use of Griffey in The Living Set brought it back to my mind.)
• 2019 Chachi #45 Jay Bruce [The Phillies Room]
• 1989 All-Star Ballot [From a 1980s Baseball Card Collector]
• He-wok and skel-wok figures [fortheloveofoldtoys on etsy]
• The Patents Behind Toy Story’s Beloved Characters [Smithsonian.com]
• Optimus Prime Gets a Cool Transformers/Ghostbusters Mashup Action Figure For SDCC [GeekTyrant] (JT sez: Cool? Definitely. $150 cool? Not so much.)
• 5 Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block [A Writer’s Path]

Purchase BCCIV by the Black Country Communion!
 

Random Awesomeness (part 2019.10)

• Scaring Your Readers 101: 8 Tips for Writing a Great Horror Story [Writers Write]
• The Guilty Pleasures of Procrastination [Fiction University]
• Unearthed Photos: Van Halen 1979 Record Store Signing at Peaches Records & Tapes [Van Halen News Desk]
• The year was #1987 [PAINTinMANning on Twitter]
• Reds legend Eric Davis talks Tony Gwynn, pulls off a great trade [Old Baseball Cards by Yahoo! Sports on YouTube]
• Disney Plus: Every show and movie that will (or may be) available to stream [CNET]
• Custom Cards: The Next Generation [The Shlabotnik Report]

What I’m Reading Right Now: Supermarket by Bobby Hall.
 

Pre-order Down To The River by the Allman Betts Band!
 

Random Awesomeness (part 2019.9)

• The New June Netflix Titles Are Here And There’s So Much Great Stuff [BuzzFeed] (JT sez: Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse is coming June 26!)
• Kiefer Sutherland & the ‘Designated Survivor’ Cast on a ‘180-Degree Shift’ in Season 3 [TV Insider]
• These Posters for a Vampire TV Show Erupt In Flames When The Sun Rises [Adweek]
• You Can Rent the Spice Girls Bus on Airbnb [Apartment Theory]
• The 1954 Topps Guide to Life [SABR’s Baseball Cards Committee]
• The Pete Alonso / Jeff McNeil Collection [Mets Baseball Cards Like They Ought To Be!] (JT sez: I love the ’86 Donruss-style “The Rookies” cards Warren posted!)
• The Inside Story of Jimmy Page’s Led Zeppelin Guitars [Guitar.com]

What I’m Reading Right Now: Almost Yankees: The Summer of ’81 and the Greatest Baseball Team You’ve Never Heard Of by J. David Herman.
 

Purchase “Bullet Holes” (from John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum) by Bush!