Finished with card #1075

I did a lot of cards today, and am up to card #1075. Per my count, that only leaves 173 more cards to do and all of the fronts will be finished. It has been getting tougher to find photos, and I had to photoshop at least 5 cards with different uniforms. I only see about 10 cards before the coaches that will give me any trouble, and I know I will be able to at least have an easy time with the NL coaches. At this rate, I'm hoping to be done with the fronts by the end of the year and have them posted by then. Sorry for the lack of pictures. Only 2 more weeks and I will be home and not living out of a suitcase. Thanks for reading.
-Jeremy

Just reached a milestone

I was able to get a bunch of cards done today, doing the missing ones from card #960 all the way up to #1000. There were a bunch of cards in that group that were already done due to team sets I've done and subsets I've already done, but I still feel like I got a ton of work done and it feels good to hit the 1000s. That leaves 400 cards to go (actually more like 235 according to my count).  Maybe I'll have the fronts done by the end of the year. I canr wait to get home and post some of the cards I've done. Thanks for checking out my progress.

-Jeremy

Uo to card #959

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am still here and making cards for my 1992 Topps set. I am up to card #959 now and slowly approaching card 1000. I am house-sitting until the end of July,and although I figured out how to connect to the houses wifi from my phone, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to connect from the Dell 1350 wireless card on my laptop. The network is hidden, but I know the username and password, which allowed me to connect from my phone. I can't seem to be able to figure out how to type the network name on my laptop, and since its hidden, it won't show on the list of networks.
With that being said, I have still been searching for player photos on my phone and transferring suitable ones from my phone to my computer and editing them on the computer. I have them saved and am close to half of the templates I need being done. The Calvin Schiraldi card is giving me a little trouble since I can't find a Rangers photo of him, so I might have to paste a logo onto a Red Sox one. I'll probably make a bunch more cards Friday, and maybe post from my phone to share how far I got. I realize you can post pics on your blog from your phone, but I don't have the Google App and don't really feel like having all of my blog stuff shared on my Google Plus wall, so that's why I will just be waiting until I can connect to a good network from my laptop and making a huge post.
Thanks for checking out what I've been up to.
-Jeremy

Cards 947-955

Todays cards bring us up to card #955. I'm slowly making a little headway, and I'm sure it will be alot easier once I have templates to all 26 teams done again, but for now it's make them as I need them. Card #950 was Rick Dempsey, a longtime catcher, who was one of 3 players to play in the '60's, '70's, '80's, and '90's (Carlton Fisk and Nolan Ryan were the others). I feel pretty old because probably in the next few years, we will see the last player to play in the '90's retire, and I got into baseball in the early '90's, so it's like part of my childhood will be gone. I wish players played for 25 years like some of them did decades ago.

I have a few players coming up that it will be interesting finding pictures for (Josias Manzanillo-Boston, Scott Lusader-Yankees, Denny Walling-Rangers, Nelson Liriano-Royals, and Mauro "Goose" Gozzo-Indians). I believe Walling will have a Mothers Cookies card, Lusader might have a few Yankees card, and Manzanillo might have made it in the '92 Topps Debut set, but the others might be tricky. As you can see, the Bill Long card needed a bunch of changes, and I did the best I could. Thanks for checking out the latest cards. Next ones should be up next week sometime.
-Jeremy

Cards 942-945

So I am starting over from scratch, and have decided to do the cards in numerical order for the time being. The first 4 cards I have done are of Hector Fajardo, Barry Lyons, Francisco de la Rosa, and Brad Komminsk. I figured Komminsk would be tough as I didn't know he was an Oakland Athletic, but fortunately for me, he had a card in 1992 Score featuring him as an A. About 10 years ago when Komminsk was a coach in the Cleveland Indians oragnization, I got to golf with him. A friend from church had an open spot in his company's golf charity during Spring Training, and he invited me to play. Many players and coaches from the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers Major and Minor Leagues were there. I didn't hit any really good shots, and if I can remember correctly Komminsk might have hit 1 or 2. He was nice, and we talked about the '80's Atlanta Braves, Pascual Perez, and his time with the Indians. He signed some cards for me, and a year later in Spring Training, he recognized me and we chatted some between practices. Wish the Indians still trained in Winter Haven and he was still a coach. I would show him his '92 Topps card.

Slowly but surely, I will get more team templates checked off, and more of the set done. And yes, I did save them to my hard drive. Thanks for reading.
-Jeremy

The unthinkable happened.....

Yesterday, I was almost finished making a card of Wendell Kim, coach of the San Francisco Giants, in my custom 1992 Topps set. Besides Kim, I just had a card of Giants coaches Bob Lillis and Norm Sherry to do, and I would've made a card of every player and coach in the National League for my set. Well, my laptop has a battery that doesn't come on unless you have it plugged into the AC adapter, and I had been saving my cards on a flash drive instead of uploading them to Blogger as I made them. So you guessed it. I got distracted, decided to finish the rest of the Giants set later, and unplugged my laptop. I noticed my flash drive was a little bent yesterday, but didn't think anything of it. So I go to finish the Giants today, and plug my flash drive in, and my computer doesn't recognize it's there. So I either fried the jump drive or disconnected something by bending it. Either way, that means the only cards I have saved are ones I already uploaded to blogger (Cards 793-941, checklists, all the subset cards, and cards of the Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Cincinatti Reds, and Houston Astros). The cards I have made that I haven't uploaded (the rest of the LA Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Montreal Expos, NY Mets, Piladelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres, and all but 3 of the San Francisco Giants) are gone. All my templates are gone. I still want to finish the set, but this is a big setback, and will probably set me back a number of months. I may just do what I was doing earlier, and make cards in numerical order, starting at card #942, and filling in the holes between cards that I already have made. It's just frustrating to have to start over for many of the teams I have already completed. I don't know if I might be able to recover the data on the flash drive by using a soldering gun, but seeing as I never used one and don't have one, the possibilities don't look promising. Oh well. I guess I learned to upload cards as I do them. Lesson learned. As always, thanks for checking out my 1992 Topps project.
-Jeremy

1992 Topps Houston Astros Team Set

It seems like I haven't posted on this blog in months. With work and stuff at home, sometimes I just don't have time to make custom cards, let alone post any. Today, however, I had a day off, so I got the chance to make some new cards, and post the newest team set.

The 1991 Houston Astros had a bunch of rookies on their team, as they were rebuilding, and they had a ton of players who weren't in the original 1992 Topps set. They are all covered now, as well as the coaches, an Art Howe All-Star card, and a combo card featuring Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio (you would be surprised how hard it was to find a photo of them in the old Astros uniform).

As far as what I have been up to in making cards (since I usually post that at the end of a blog post), I have finished the Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and St. Louis Cardinals team sets. I will try to work on the San Diego Padres (another team with many cards missing from the '92 set) and San Francisco Giants team sets tomorrow to finish out the National League. I may also work on a Lee Smith Record Breaker card (he set a NL record for Saves in '91). Thanks for checking out my latest post.
-Jeremy