Later today, Alex Gordon will be inducted into the Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame and in honor of that I thought I'd share his rookie card alongside the rookie cards of KC's other Hall of Fame players.

Congrats, Gordo!

…the Royals surely need Jac’s big stick.

Although I’m sure there will be some adjustment, I’m excited to watch how Jac Caglianone does in his MLB debut. The Royals desperately need offensive help and hopefully Cag’s performance in the minors this year carries over to do just that.

A sampling of the Caglianone cards in my collection for your Monday viewing…

Given both his birthday yesterday as well as the trade rumors that seem to be bubbling up, I thought for today I'd share the Paul Skenes cards in my collection. Glad I got a few good ones before he potentially gets traded to a contender and/or a bigger market and his card market takes another leap.

It was about a year ago when MLB announced that stats from the Negro Leagues would be added to the official record. Although I had cards of former Negro League players, that announcement piqued my interest in finding more - only for me to quickly realize that there really weren't a lot of them from the era, and ones of prominent players that did exist were somewhat "cost prohibitive."

It did lead me to discovering the 1976 Shakey's Pizza "Baseball's Greatest Players" set, however. It was a regional release here in the Pacific Northwest and in addition to it having all the usual Hall of Fame suspects it also included greats from the Negro Leagues, for some potentially being one of their only cards.

There is definitely a kitchiness factor to the set that's appealing to me, so over the past year I've collected many of the cards and today am presenting what are probably the Big Four of the Negro League star players.