1986 Topps #530 Goose Gossage

I brought my old baseball collection back from the closet in my parents house to my house over the holidays and have been busy revisiting my youth through cardboard. This card jumped out at me as one of my favorite cards of all time that I had completely forgot even existed. Gossage was at the end of his career when I started collecting, but his awesomeness was easy to recognize. The aviator shades with the handlebar make this one of the most bad ass cards of all time. The only improvement would be if he was credited as Goose instead of Rich. A 9 nine time All-Star who saved over 300 games when that was still an impressive milestone and a 2008 Hall of Fame inductee

Custom Card: 1985 Topps Football Sal Fasano

Taking the style from another black bordered beauty of a set, 1985 Topps Football, here is a custom of Sal Fasano, cult hero and backup catcher. Fasano spent a brief 25 games stint with the Rockies in 2001, then signed on for spring training of 2009 with Colorado, and then spent all of 2009 with AAA Colorado Springs. Sal spent most of his career jumping from team to team and splitting time between the majors and the minors, he gained a cult following largely because of his Hall of Fame worthy fu manchu. Here is my small tribute to Sal Fasano, the man, the myth, the mustache.