The amazing artist Adam Lister is famous for his 8-bit renditions of art, pop culture icons, and trading cards. Each card is a custom hand-painted 1/1 with only one of each card ever being made. Question: with more customs cards (like Tyson Beck, sketch cards etc) being graded, will the card graders grade/slab this 1/1 original piece of card art?!

My vintage card of the week: The 1952 Topps Willie Mays. This low-grade beauty is definitely one of my favorite cards. I love the design of this set in general, and we all know the set’s impact on the hobby. I’ll never own the ’52 Mantle, but I’m very happy to have the Mays card in my collection. This card features gorgeous colors and a brilliant portrait of Mays. Willie was only 20 years old here, but he looked destined for greatness and wise for his years.

This was on display at the Dallas Card Show in March. The card looks very bold!

I will be posting some Blue Jays themed cards over the next week!

Al Widmar was the Jays pitching coach from 1980-1989, and a member of the team's front office for the 1992 & 1993 World Series championships.

He is also remembered for threatening to sue Major League Baseball in 1950 on the grounds that the reserve clause was illegal. But Widmar agreed to drop the matter when commissioner Happy Chandler intervened and instructed the St. Louis Browns to give him a raise.