Mid-April was a little rough and caused me to lose my Ripken-esque daily activity streak (@EPonMantel and @hypemon can call off the search team, I’m still alive).

Speaking of the passage of time, Ki-Jana was drafted 30 years ago this month. Shown here is a rare open-field juke captured on film.

Went to a card show in Harrisburg, PA yesterday. Found some nice cards and spent 10 minutes talking to an older dealer about his vintage graded football cards.

Among the highlights are a 2000 Stadium Club Chrome Vlad Guerrero First Day Issue, a1955 Bowman Frank Gifford, and a 1998 Flair Showcase Legacy Fernando Tatis #’d 1/100 that I found in a dollar bin (!!!).

There are only 33,000 Black Diamond Quad emeralds in existence between baseball and football. Sounds like a ton until you try to find them. At $5-15 for a mid-level star, I think they’re undervalued.

I own a 2021 Chargers Jerry Tillery jersey that he wore in 6 of 8 games in which that variation was used, and I bought this 2022 Donruss card that appears to have the same scrape pattern on the right shoulder.

Update: Hat tip to @EPonMantel, who pointed out that it’s a game at Kansas City, which is a game for which I’ve positively photomatched this jersey. So the jersey I own appears on an NFL card! Pretty cool.

Lately I’ve been buying 1996 Pinnacle Trophy Collection and foil parallels because the photography is amazing and the dufex/foil makes the images pop. I didn’t like this set as a kid but I appreciate it today.