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2014 Topps 1, 2, and Update Series Royals Team Set
This set contains 27 different Royals cards.
Series 1:

3	Jarrod Dyson
97	Alex Gordon
151	Bruce Chen
167	Jeremy Guthrie
214	James Shields
255	Billy Butler
265	Yordano Ventura
298	Chris Getz
322	Emilio Bonifacio

Series 2:

341	Mike Moustakas
348	Salvador Perez
357	Lorenzo Cain
433	Omar Infante
459	Eric Hosmer
514	Alcides Escobar
517	Norichika Aoki
532	Danny Duffy
544	Jason Vargas
586	Luke Hochevar
594	Justin Maxwell
617	Greg Holland
658	Wade Davis

Update Series:

45	Pedro Ciriaco
58	Raul Ibanez
97	Salvador Perez
228	Aaron Crow
295	Greg Holland

"Baseball Card Man" Meets Phil Dixon

Phil S. Dixon is widely regarded as one of America’s foremost experts on baseball history. He has authored various books on the Negro Baseball leagues. He was awarded the prestigious Casey Award for the “Best Baseball Book” of 1992, and a SAB

Authors’ Biography Phil S. Dixon is widely regarded as one of America’s foremost experts on baseball history. He has authored six previous books on the Negro Baseball leagues: The Ultimate Kansas City Baseball Trivia Quiz Book (Bon A Tirer Publishing), The Negro Baseball Leagues a Photographic History, 1867-1955 (Amereon House), The Monarchs 1920-1938 Featuring Wilber “Bullet” Rogan The Greatest Ballplayer in Cooperstown (Mariah Press), Phil Dixon’s American Baseball Chronicles, Vol. III, The 1905 Philadelphia Giants (Booksurge), John “Buck” O’Neil, The Rookie, The Man, The Legacy, 1938 (Author house), Phil Dixon’s American Baseball Chronicles, Vol. I, The 1931 Homestead Grays (Xlibris) and Phil Dixon’s American Baseball Chronicles, Vol. III, The 1905 Philadelphia Giants (2010 update), (Xlibris). A knowledgeable and entertaining speaker, Dixon lectures regularly to colleges, High schools, community groups and is routinely quoted in print and broadcast media. Dixon formerly worked in the Public Relations Department of the Kansas City Royals major league baseball team, and currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, an organization which he served as a co-founder in 1990. He has interviewed hundreds of athletes and researched baseball topics for more than twenty-five years. Phil S. Dixon resides in Belton, Missouri, with his wife Kerry and children.

Went to the Royals Game 6-22-2013

Taken from ESPN

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Chicago White Sox had the right reliever on the mound with the game tied in the eighth inning Saturday, especially when some miscommunication in the outfield allowed the Royals to put a runner on third base with one out.

Jesse Crain calmly retired Salvador Perez on a popup and then struck out Lorenzo Cain to end the threat, his 29th straight scoreless appearance -- and one that kept Chicago in the game.

"Luckily we had Jesse in there," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "You make a mistake and you have a guy in there who can still get you out of it."

It wound up being a decisive moment when Alejandro De Aza drove in Jordan Danks with a sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth, sending the White Sox to a 3-2 victory over Kansas City.

"I always have the feeling out there that I'm going to get through it no matter what," said Crain, who hasn't allowed a run since April 12. "Just make the best pitch you can."

Addison Reed handled a perfect ninth for his 21st save.

Mike Moustakas and Salvador Perez provided the only runs for the slumbering Royals, who have dropped four straight since climbing back to .500.

"The difference in the game was that we both had the same situation late -- had the winning run on third base -- and they executed and we didn't," Royals manager Ned Yost said.

Crain (2-1) may have made the clutch pitches, but it took a bunch of critical at-bats for the White Sox to escape with their second straight win in the three-game series.

Dayan Viciedo led off the ninth with a single off Aaron Crow (3-3), and Jeff Keppinger drew a walk to reach base for the fourth time. Yost brought in closer Greg Holland, and he got pinch-hitter Gordon Beckham to fly out to center field.

That allowed Danks, who was pinch-running for Viciedo, to reach third base. De Aza laid off a couple of pitches out of the strike zone, and then ripped a fly ball to right field that was just deep enough to allow Danks to slide home ahead of the throw with the go-ahead run.

It was the 25th one-run game the White Sox have played this season.

"It seems like we're always on the losing end of one-run games, so fundamentally to get a sac fly to get the winning run, it's a good feeling," Keppinger said. "Hopefully we can build off it."

The Royals struck first when Miguel Tejada, starting at second base for the ninth time in his 16-year career, hit a two-out single in the second inning. The 39-year-old then chugged all the way around on a double by Moustakas to give Kansas City the early lead.

It was the first RBI for Moustakas since May 23.

The White Sox threatened in the third when Keppinger singled and Tyler Flowers walked to start the inning. Alex Rios hit a ball down the right-field line that fell foul by just a couple of feet, and then he struck out looking to keep the White Sox off the scoreboard.

At least until the fourth.

Adam Dunn, who was hitting .186 coming into the game, walked leading off the inning. Paul Konerko followed with a single up the middle, and Conor Gillaspie's slow roller up the middle was enough to drive in Dunn with the tying run.

Wade Davis nearly escaped the inning when he got Viciedo to ground into a double play, but Keppinger delivered a single to right that gave the White Sox a 2-1 lead.

Kansas City was poised for a big sixth inning, tying the game on a single by Perez and putting runners on first and second with one out. But reliever Matt Lindstrom entered the game and got Cain to ground into a double play on his first pitch to end the threat.

"It's baseball, man. It's a hard game," Moustakas said. "Sometimes you get the job done, sometimes you don't get it done, and that's just kind of how it turns out."

White Sox starter Jose Quintana wound up going 5 1/3 innings, while Davis made it through seven innings on the warm afternoon. He also gave up two runs for the Royals.

"Tough loss," Davis said, "having a tie game in the ninth inning."

Game notes

The Royals (34-38) dropped to 11-33 when scoring three runs or fewer. ... Keppinger started at 2B in place of Beckham and finished 3 for 3. ... The White Sox secured their first series win since May 24-26 at Miami. ... The Royals activated OF Jarrod Dyson (right high ankle sprain) from the DL and optioned 2B Chris Getz to Triple-A Omaha. ... RHP Dylan Axelrod goes to the mound for the White Sox in Sunday's series finale. RHP James Shieldsstarts for Kansas City.

Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press

Trevor Rosenthal Rookie Card from Ebay

Trevor Rosenthal Rookie Card-He went to the same College as my daughter Cowley County Community College.

The Black Border Cards where  available only in specially-marked retail three-pack hanger packs, these cards are identical to the Chrome cards minus the chrome. The checklist is the same, but the numbering parallels the base set.

Topps Mini Warren Spahn Card number is TM-93

Yeah!!!pulled this out of a pack I got for Christmas

2012 Topps Mini Warren Spahn

Card number is TM-93

I bought more !967 Topps

I bought 25 card lot of 1967 Topps baseball cards.  This lot includes 96, 104, 114, 115, 119, 127, 129, 130, 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 141, 142, 144, 145, 146 Steve Carlton (HOF), 147, 148, 149, 151 World Series Game 1, and 152 World Series Game 2. 

1967 Topps on E-bay

I bought these cards on E bay from Sarita7 and he throw in a  nice surprise with a 1955 Eddie Waitkus Bowen

Great Trade!

73Toppsmann at Sports card Forum sent me a six-for-one deal. For every 1975 card, I sent him,he sent me six 2011 cards. I had not trade at Sports Card Forum in a long time.Great Trade!!!! I got a Albert Pujols and Josh Beckett cards, in total I got a 150 topps 2011 cards

2011 Topps Baseball Series 1 History of Topps Inserts Complete Set (10)

I won these cards on ebay from klively331j ( 1606)

Great seller

Christmas card

My oldest card collecting friend sent a Christmas card and a baseball card

Random Packs of Kindness

I got some great cards from Tribe Cards and his Random Packs of Kindness

August 21 ,2011 Royals Game

The kid had his good stuff Sunday, Ned Yost noticed, and his good command, too.

Despite yielding a leadoff walk — in which he kept trying to make the perfect pitch — Danny Duffy escaped the first inning of the Royals’ 6-1 loss to Boston unscathed. But Yost, the Royals’ manager, still wasn’t going to let his rookie left-hander overthink this. Not when he was matched up against one of the best pitchers on one of the best teams in the American League.

“Danny,” Yost told Duffy in the dugout, “let everybody play. You don’t have to strike everybody out.”

Duffy had heard the whole “pitch to contact, trust your defense” mantra from managers before, but never from Yost, so he figured he’d better listen. And while the Royals still fell to the Red Sox 6-1 on Sunday, it’s hard to imagine Duffy — who rebounded from a rough start in his last outing to allow only two runs on five hits in six innings — could have pitched much better.

“This is the best I’ve seen Duffy look in a while,” Royals infielder Mike Moustakas said. “He was in the zone, making pitches when he had to, keeping guys off balance. He gave us a chance to win.”

The Royals didn’t, of course. But a lot of that can be attributed to the performance of Boston’s own left-hander with top-notch stuff, Jon Lester. Lester, 13-6, carried a no-hitter into the fourth and allowed only one run and three hits in six innings as Boston , 77-49, took the finale of a four-game series at Kauffman Stadium.

“Jon Lester, he’s just bona fide,” Yost said. “He’s a premier pitcher in the American League, and he showed why today.”

Yet on this day, the difference between the 27-year-old Lester, a Cy Young candidate a year ago, and the 22-year old Duffy, who dropped to 3-8, wasn’t that wide.

When Duffy departed after the sixth inning, the Royals only trailed 2-0 — an encouraging sign for a rookie who is still feeling his way around the big leagues after he was pounded to the tune of eight runs in three innings in his previous start against the New York Yankees.

“The mistakes (Lester) made were way up out of the zone or way down out of the zone,” Duffy said, “while the mistakes I made were right over the middle of the plate.”

Two mistakes in particular cost Duffy. The first came in the fifth inning, when he hung a curve to Boston catcher Jason Varitek, who drove the pitch to right for a triple — his first in almost four years — that gave Boston a 1-0 lead.

The second (and more frustrating) mistake came in the sixth inning, when he wasted a 0-2 count to Darnell McDonald by throwing a 94-mph fastball that caught too much of the plate. McDonald, who entered the game with a .175 batting average and four home runs, muscled the ball to left for a homer that made the score 2-0.

Lester, meanwhile, was cruising. Through six innings, he’d allowed only one hit, a single to catcher Salvador Perez. But after the Red Sox tacked on another run in the seventh against reliever Aaron Crow, the Royals hoped to mount a comeback when rookie Johnny Giavotella led off the bottom of the inning with a triple. Perez followed with a walk, and Lester — who was well over 100 pitches at this point — allowed a RBI single to Moustakas.

With Boston’s lead trimmed to 3-1 and runners on first and second and no outs, Red Sox manager Terry Francona decided to call on his top setup man, hard-throwing right-hander Daniel Bard. And the combination of Bard, who retired the next three batters in order, plus a three-run eighth that made the score 6-1, immediately ended any hopes the Royals had of a comeback.

The defeat was another bitter one for the Royals, who dropped to 52-76 and ended a seven-game homestand against the Yankees and Red Sox with a 2-5 record.

But Duffy, who called the performance “a step forward,” says he will take it as a learning experience. It’s likely he will continue to battle himself, at least until he figures out how to control his aggression on the mound.

But Yost’s message in the first inning Sunday, and the results Duffy found after he listened, showed what can happen when he trusts his defense and doesn’t try to strike out everybody.

“Sometimes less is more,” Duffy said. “I’m going to come at you every start, but I’ve got to learn to ease up a little bit.”

My very own Baseball Card

I got this last week at the Royals and Indians Game