Recently, I received a card that shook me to my collecting core. Nothing will ever be the same. I've always felt that Ron Cey takes a great baseball card. No matter who was issuing the card, or what the design was, Cey's card always turned out great. I'm biased, of course, because he's my all-time favorite player and basically can do no wrong to this very day. And the card you see at the top of this post is example one. It's my all-time favorite card, and I think if folks look at it objectively, they would agree that Cey makes this card and every card better. Since Cey's retirement and the rise in retro cards of past all-stars, he's never let me down. Every card is great even 25 years after he played his last game. And then I saw this: I don't know what to say. I've been aware of the existence of this card for several weeks now, and I still can't form my thoughts into words. I received this card from Max of Starting Nine and I ...
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