An extremely underrated part of Topps Holiday is the potential debut of base cards for some early season call ups that were not included in Series 1 or 2 flagship.

Cool artsy pick by Upper Deck with the action sequence photo. Sportflic esque… I didn’t have a lot of 1990 Upper Decks ergo this card jumped out at me.

Bert’s fun facts:

-He’s the most prominent of the only nine other MLB players from the Netherlands 🇳🇱

-His legendary curve ball was inspired by Sandy Koufax who he grew up admiring when his family move to Cali

-Won a WS in 1979 with the Pirates

-All in All played for 22 seasons and culminated 287 Wins and 3,701Ks

-HoF inductee in 2011

Here’s a link to all the Bert Blyleven cards on eBay: https://ebay.us/XbrSy9

An epic, larger-than-life shot.

What happened to Sportflics? They couldn’t have been around for very long. Almost like a real life GIF in a roundabout way.

Molitors first season was in 1978 and he had an illustrious career:

-Only player to lead league in hits on three separate times on three different teams

-Played every position other than P and C

-First player to have 5 hits in a WS game in ‘82

-Massive Bruce Springsteen fan. Followed him on tour in 1999.

-Had 20/20 season when he was 36 years old

-Stole home base 10x during his career

-Nicknamed the ignitor

Here’s a link to all the Paul Molitor baseball cards on eBay: https://ebay.us/FWpIoS

I love vintage and I love baseball, so I'm happy to see this group starting up!