Single by Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon I seemed to be out of standard Carew cards, but I had a few of his oversized 1983 Donruss Action All-Stars, which also happens to be Carew’s best headband card.2021 single by Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon In the other case, so special request came with it, so I went thru my stacks to see what I had. In one case, the request was for a Twins card so I hit eBay since my own supply of Twins cards was down to the keepers in my PC. Two more collectors asked if I could make Rod Carew Card Art for them. Then a funny thing happened that literally never happens to me (but is extremely welcome). Carew, who just joined Twitter and has offered a few interactions with fans, even “liked” (i.e., clicked the…here it comes again…heart icon) the transaction, which was a nice feel good in addition to the card moving so fast. Money from the card went to the American Heart Association, which is an organization very near and dear to Mr, Carew’s…(no pun intended but here it comes…) heart.
I posted some Rod Carew Card Art this morning and was thrilled that I had a taker almost right away. (By the way, see Chris Kamka’s excellent SABR Baseball Cards article on Diamond Kings for more than you’d ever want to know on player selection and reuse.) All these years later, I still love a Diamond King. As this was the first year of Diamond Kings, the checklist was particularly excellent since Donruss could more or less choose the very best player per team without worry about whether the player had already been a Diamond King. Perhaps the closest analog was the Topps All-Star cards. In what was only my fifth year as a collector I had little against which to compare this glorious subset.
Rather, it was thanks to the 26 cards that led off the set courtesy of Dick Perez. The crown myself and other neighborhood collectors had nothing to do with which set had the best Ripken rookie (though it probably was Donruss) or which cards would fund our retirement (all!?). I was twelve years old when Donruss overtook Topps and Fleer in 1982 as the very temporary king of the Hobby.
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