Interesting story posted by Defector (h/t <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="mention" href="/yanxchick">@yanxchick</a> for sharing it in her Card Chat newsletter). Topps Series 1 has 350 base cards and there are upwards of 50 parallels for each of those commons. Makes it easy to pull something interesting, but hard to find cards with real value (and nearly impossible to complete a rainbow!). What do you all think? <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://defector.com/thats-too-many-baseball-cards?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">https://defector.com/thats-too-many-baseball-cards?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email</a>

Spring training was already in full swing when Jason texted me. We mostly talk Phillies, and I figured he wanted to discuss which players would be disappointing us this season. Instead he had a question about baseball cards. He showed me two Topps cards, ...

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