Links:
- David Lennon has a 1-on-1 interview with Mike Piazza in Newsday.
- Toby Hyde interviews 2012 Mets first round draft pick Gavin Cecchini for MetsMinors
- Sports Collectors Daily writes about the 82-card Archives baseball card set that Topps is producing for the Chicago Cubs to give away over the course of four home games this summer. How cool would it have been if the Mets did this to celebrate their 50th anniversary last year?
New Autographs:
Philadelphia Phillies catching prospect Tommy Joseph included a few extra cards when he signed the stuff that my friend Bart mailed to him, so Bart passed them on to me. For a young guy, Joseph actually had a pretty decent autograph. Both cards were made before Joseph was traded from the San Francisco Giants organization, so the minor league one shows him as a Richmond Flying Squirrel – that’s my favorite Eastern League team nickname.
Non-Baseball Link:
Because the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and a guy that forges his own swords & sais are cool.
PaulHadsall.com 
If ever you feel one day and need to get away for the day, the Flying Squirrels play directly across the street from the Richmond Greyhound terminal. I am planning on making the journey this season as I never been to a game in Virginia.
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Thank you for the tip – I will have to keep it in mind.
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Those Cubs cards do look pretty cool. Hopefully it will be a successful enough promotion that other teams will do something similar.
Meanwhile, I’m making a mental note to go after the Dave Kingman and trying to think of other former Cubs I might be interested in… Catch me on the right day and I might go after any cards on mid-70’s designs, regardless of who’s on them.
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I love the 1972 Topps design – enough so that I’m overlooking my dislike of mini cards to collect the inserts in this year’s Topps Series 1 set. The other designs from that decade don’t do too much for me. The 60s cards still feel like classics, and the 80s ones inspire nostalgia, but the 70s don’t quite do either. Ah well, at least they make more sense than resurrecting 1990s designs.
Also, I’m not quite sure how I feel about Steve Trachsel appearing in the Cubs set. I hope their fans remember him more fondly than I do.
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