tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-657985600764530650.post6985291260395238419..comments2023-12-11T03:37:10.895-08:00Comments on This Card Is Cool - My Life in Baseball Cards: Stale Cards Taste BetterRyan Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12670458381967699663noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-657985600764530650.post-89132692145921209432014-02-09T17:30:54.360-08:002014-02-09T17:30:54.360-08:00That's an awesome find, then! I like the idea ...That's an awesome find, then! I like the idea of each team having a fairly uniform website (i.e. milb.com) because it makes it easy to find information when going from team to team. But indie websites are so much more fun to look at.<br /><br />And yes, photographers now can take 10 or 20 shots in a row and it doesn't cost them a dime, and the cameras take better photos in low light and action situations so they can have some game shots instead of just portraits. I'm not sure how things were back in the 1980s and 1990s, but I think each team has its own photographer or photographers that shoot action at all the games too.Ryan Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12670458381967699663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-657985600764530650.post-53414505588126567172014-02-09T11:36:29.060-08:002014-02-09T11:36:29.060-08:00I lucked out on the Clippers sets. Before they sw...I lucked out on the Clippers sets. Before they switched affiliation from the Yankees to the Indians, they ran their own website and online team store (before milb.com took everything over). As everything was being remodeled with the switch in affiliation, almost everything in their store was on huge clearance markdown. I picked up a ton of team sets (including some rare stuff) for $0.25-$3 a set.<br /><br />With the advent of digital photography, we're a lot less likely to see cards like that Jim Buckner. I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing. There were some wonderfully bad photos amongst some of those old minor league team sets. And Ronald MacDonald. Poor guy.Jason Presleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13543465200431539036noreply@blogger.com