The perfect card for a baseball card & stat nerd collection 🤓

A piece of game used base from 2024 when Danny Jansen played for both the Blue Jays and Red Sox in the same game.

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Last year, we profiled how the Milwaukee Brewers renewed a tradition from the 1980’s & 90’s, providing baseball cards to police departments to hand out to kids.

Why? To foster conversations between young people and police officers.

This year, instead of individual cards, it’s packs. Each wax pack comes with the six card set designed by Pop Fly artist Daniel Jacob Horine, famous for his baseball themed comic book covers.

10,000 total packs were created with participating police departments across the state of Wisconsin getting 2,000 packs each.

Packs have already sold for $100+ on eBay.

In addition, a short printed Bob Uecker card was spotted on top of a pack recently listed on eBay.

Cards we think are cool (volume 12)

Shohei Ohtani & Juan Soto

2019 Donruss Baseball Nicknames Insert

Pink Firework parallel

This six card insert set came in 11 parallels including a Black 1/1.

1) Aaron Judge- All Rise

2) Paul Goldschmidt- Goldy

3) Mike Trout- Millville Meteor

4) Javier Baez- El Mago

5) Soto- Childish Bambino

6) Ohtani- Showtime

A red Ohtani /149 PSA10 sold for $228.50 in April. The Soto Gold /99 PSA10 is BIN listed for $3500 on eBay.

So fun to talk to Al Unser Jr. about his career in racing cards today at the Museum of American Speed.

Full feature on our July episode!

A total of 12 MLB players have died while serving their country, six of them in combat.

Of the six who died in combat, only one player has a card from during his MLB career.

Eddie Grant played ten seasons for the Naps, Phillies, Reds and Giants from 1905 until 1915. Grant had been retired for two years when we became one of the first men to enlist in the Army when World War I broke out in 1917.

He was captain of the 77th division in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, the largest battle in U.S. military history.

After all of Grant’s superior officers were killed or wounded, he took control of the troops and started a four day search for ‘The Lost Battalion’, a group of 500 soldiers isolated and surrounded by the Germans.

While Grant died during the search, his efforts helped 194 of the men get rescued just a few days later.

On Memorial Day in 1921, a monument was unveiled in center field of the Polo Grounds in Eddie Grant’s honor.

A replica plaque was installed at the Giant’s Oracle Park in 2006.

Grant had multiple player career cards including a 1909 American Caramel and a 1910 Sporting Life.

I actually just grabbed this 1914 B18 blanket off eBay for $40 after researching Grant’s story.

Edward Leslie Grant, one American hero among many, to honor on this Memorial Day.