Topps Million: 1973 Norm Cash

Topps Million: 1973 Bernie Carbo

... and finally a Cardinal!!!

Topps Million: 'Stache or Eye Black?

Knew absolutely nothing about this guy. Turns out he was a Cardinals draft pick and made his MLB debut in St. Louis. He also hit the first grand slam for the Mariners franchise.

Topps Million: 1987 Pete Rose

Pete retired in the '86 season so I'm assuming this is his last Topps base card. Yes?

Topps Million: 1958 Walt Dropo

... and the code card that came with the Perry auto yielded this:

Oldest card so far… Isaac, having seen the movie and currently reading the Percy Jackson series, digs the old White Sox logo.

Topps Million: Two Yankees

They're almost like mirror images of each other... Doubt we'll be paying the postage for either of these.

Topps Million: Back to the Junk

Oy Vey! On the plus side, the Snipping Tool in Windows 7 is a god send for posts like this.

Topps Million Traded: 2004 Mike Matheny

Wow. I posted our first trade offer and BOOM, an hour later someone accepted. Its nice to have Matheny back in the Cardinals fold as a special instructor... hopefully his role will expand as his kids get older and we'll see more of him at Busch in the future.

Topps Million: 2004 Bradley Sullivan

The 2nd card breaks the short run on 70's cards.

From Baseball Reference: Brad Sullivan was a top-flight star in college, but as of 2007, his career appears stalled in the minors.

On the plus side, Isaac said I could have all of the Million Card cards as long as he gets all the Topps Town cards. Deal.

Why couldn't I have gotten this card, which was pulled at roughly the same time (assuming the ticker is in real time).

Topps Million: 1974 Bill Fahey

My wife took the kids to Target last night. Isaac came home with two packs, each came with a Million Card card. Here's the first: not great, but not horrible.

Topps Million: 1962 Al Kaline

Ok, so I didn't actually win this card. BUT, I clicked on the card name in the Topps Million home page ticker and found this: When viewing the card from your binder or from the ticker, the card page includes a Related Cards scroll feature. As not all cards for the players are listed, might it be safe to assume that these represent which cards are available for a given player? In Kaline's case the earliest card is from the 1954 set.

Topps Million: 1971 Sandy Vance

Entered our first and only code over lunch. Anyone want to trade for a Cardinal of similar vintage?