Topps X Wander Franco

In the Bronx with Johnny Bench and Russ Ortiz, 1963

I agree. I love me some Banjo and Taz too but the Topps series is great. Really great. Unquestionably great. It's basically like finding a treasure map that only you can decode (in your head)... Except You know what you actually have to go where the treasures are on the map. And it just happens to be those certain high graded cards that had awesome designs!

My parents traded off with each other when trying to find back boxes of their Topps-era hobby boxes years ago. A few were pristine and never got looked at again during my youth because they looked so damn good in person.... Now everybody complains about bad baseball designs enough as it already is - now we go back to stuff we were promised from age 4 onward where most of the designs fall flat despite looking fantastic in picture form? Damn straight. Now add the wannabe purists. Ugh.

What's wrong with a box that doesn't include Babe Ruth in it? His early career looks pretty great anyway. The one time I got a Hank Aaron card and was disappointed. How do people feel about the wannabiks?

Honestly I really don't care - this obsession with back boxes is ridiculous if our collections aren't up to snuff nowadays since the internet allows collectors and collectors alone an outlet for self assessment rather than relying on individual experiences. Baseball cards no longer represent actual real life either unfortunately, meaning that history has lost something quite valuable in itself.