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Blockchain Trading Cards

One of the most exciting uses for cryptocurrencies is the creation of new forms of collectible trading cards. The new technology allows collectible cards to be stored on a blockchain, rather than in a physical store. Since a blockchain cannot store large files like images, the owner of a card will only have a unique number string that identifies it. Moreover, Gods Unchained will maintain copyright over designs and image files and will not allow any other company to change the card's color.

One of the newest versions of this product is called "Top Shot," a digital marketplace with NBA players. The cards are in the form of spinning digital cubes, with video highlights of individual players. The company behind this project, Dapper Labs, convinced the NBA of the value of these digital cards and created a blockchain-based marketplace to market them. Using blockchain technology, the company claims to have sold 58,000 sets of digital cards in just a few months.

Panini will release its own blockchain-based sports trading cards, featuring top athletes from the NFL, NBA, MLBPA, and College athletics. The new cards will feature top athletes including Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, and Diego Maradona. It will also feature the first-ever blockchain-based card of Honus Wagner. Panini will release several new, exclusive cards featuring these players.

As more people become familiar with the blockchain technology, more soccer teams will start to release their own cryptocurrency-based collectibles. Many soccer clubs have also announced plans to release blockchain-based versions of their popular physical trading cards. Atletico Madrid has already signed a licensing agreement with Sorare for player cards. In addition, Fantastec has signed up Real Madrid, Arsenal, and Borussia Dortmund. This means that these blockchain trading cards could become a huge hit in the market!

A popular game of blockchain-based collectible cards is Gods Unchained. This game combines the functionality of a trading card game with an arcade style. To create the best deck possible, players must combine cards and fight enemy creatures. Once they have accumulated a strong enough deck, they can sell it as NFTs to earn more coins. Besides, players can also buy booster packs to acquire new cards. In this way, the blockchain-based game is a viable way to make collecting cards even more fun.

Panini America also expanded its NFT portfolio to make it affordable for new collectors. The 2020-21 Prizm Basketball NFT Blockchain product will release multiple days, offering collectors a convenient way to get into the hobby. Each product will also feature multiple-color parallel packs. A full run of an individual card will be sold in multiple lots across its release schedule. For more information, visit Panini America's official website. This is a great opportunity to try out this new form of collectible trading cards.

Another unique feature of these trading cards is that they are non-fungible. Each NFT is one-of-a-kind, so no two cards are exactly the same. Many collectors buy NFTs for bragging rights, while others buy them as an investment in their collection and then trade them for higher values later. Other collectors play NFT-based trading card games. In some games, players can build their own decks of cards and battle other players. Axie Infinity is one example of a game that uses these cards.

As the blockchain has been gaining ground in the physical world, collectors have taken the game online. While blockchain trading cards aren't as accessible as physical cards, there are still many collectors interested in the digital versions. Top Shot is a popular digital trading card game that accepts MasterCard and Visa. The cards contain between three and ten Moments, varying in rarity and price. The packs are affordable, with many packs containing just three to ten Moments. One-dollar packs are available online.

Garbage Pail Kids are one example of collectibles that will benefit from the new technology. They will soon be available on the blockchain and will be certified authentic. Blockchain technology will also allow collectors to participate in a marketplace. This means they can buy and sell digital Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, propose trades, and showcase their inventory on social media. They can also browse other traders' wishlists for collectibles.

Crypto Strikers are a blockchain trading card project based on the Ethereum platform. The collection of 10,261 digital soccer trading cards represents 100 players from the 2018 Fifa World Cup. However, the project's developers have made an early implementation of the ERC-721 standard and thus incompatible with new protocols. They are also a prime example of a project that could disrupt the trading card industry. Its creators have even broken the blockchain and created spin-off cryptocurrency that broke the network for several hours. Moreover, they have acquired other massive NFT brands.

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emakegr · 2 years

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NFTs, explained

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There’s nothing like an explosion of blockchain news to leave you thinking, “Um… what’s going on here?” That’s the feeling I’ve experienced while reading about Grimes getting millions of dollars for NFTs or about Nyan Cat being sold as one.

In the year since NFTs exploded in popularity, the situation has only gotten more complicated. Pictures of apes have sold for tens of millions of dollars, there’s been an endless supply of headlines about million-dollar hacks of NFT projects, and corporate cash grabs have only gotten worse.

All this news may have left you wondering: what is an NFT, anyhow?

After countless hours of research and discussions (most of which were against my will), I think I know. I also think I’m going to cry.

Okay, let’s start with the basics.

What is an NFT? What does NFT stand for?

Non-fungible token.

That doesn’t make it any clearer.

Right, sorry. “Non-fungible” more or less means that it’s unique and can’t be replaced with something else. For example, a bitcoin is fungible — trade one for another bitcoin, and you’ll have exactly the same thing.

A one-of-a-kind trading card, however, is non-fungible. If you traded it for a different card, you’d have something completely different. You gave up a Squirtle, and got a 1909 T206 Honus Wagner, which StadiumTalk calls “the Mona Lisa of baseball cards.” (I’ll take their word for it.)

How do NFTs work?

At a very high level, most NFTs are part of the Ethereum blockchain, though other blockchains have implemented their own version of NFTs. Ethereum is a cryptocurrency, like bitcoin or dogecoin, but its blockchain also keeps track of who’s holding and trading NFTs.

How do you pronounce NFT?

Almost everyone spells it out, saying “en eff tee.” The brave call them “nefts.” The enlightened have never had the word cross their lips.

What’s worth picking up at the NFT supermarket?

NFTs can really be anything digital (such as drawings, music, your brain downloaded and turned into an AI), but a lot of the current excitement is around using the tech to sell digital art.

You mean, like, people buying my good tweets?

I don’t think anyone can stop you, but that’s not really what I meant. A lot of the conversation is about NFTs as an evolution of fine art collecting, only with digital art.

But yes, someone could buy your good tweets. The founder of Twitter sold one for just under $3 million shortly after we originally posted this article.

Could you do a real quick rundown of what the blockchain is?

Well, they’re pretty complex, but the basic idea is that blockchains are a way to store data without having to trust any one company or entity to keep things secure and accurate. There are definitely nuances and exceptions there, which you can read about in our blockchain explainer, but when most people say “blockchain,” that’s the kind of tech they’re talking about.

There’s also... a lot of nuance about whether NFT’s are on the blockchain or not, which we’ll dig into in a bit.

Oooh, foreshadowing.

I know, I feel like a real writer.

So do people really think this will be the future of collecting?

I’m sure some people really hope so — like whoever paid almost $390,000 for a 50-second video by Grimes or the person who paid $6.6 million for a video by Beeple. Actually, one of Beeple’s pieces was auctioned at Christie’s, the famou—

Yoink!

Image: Beeple

Sorry, I was busy right-clicking on that Beeple video and downloading the same file the person paid millions of dollars for.

Wow, rude. But yeah, that’s the awkward bit. You can copy a digital file as many times as you want, including the art that’s included with an NFT.

But NFTs are designed to give you something that can’t be copied: ownership of the work (though the artist can still retain the copyright and reproduction rights, just like with physical artwork). To put it in terms of physical art collecting: anyone can buy a Monet print. But only one person can own the original.

No shade to Beeple, but the video isn’t really a Monet.

What do you think of the $3,600 Gucci Ghost? Also, you didn’t let me finish earlier. That image that Beeple was auctioning off at Christie’s ended up selling for $69 million, which, by the way, is $15 million more than Monet’s painting Nymphéas sold for in 2014.

This last sold for $3,600, but the current owner is asking for $16,300.

GIF by Trevor Andrew

Whoever got that Monet can actually appreciate it as a physical object. With digital art, a copy is literally as good as the original.

But the flex of owning an original Beeple...

I think I remember hearing that NFTs are already over. Didn’t the boom go bust? Like for real this time?

Sales have absolutely slumped since their peak, though like with seemingly everything in crypto there’s always somebody declaring it over and done with right before a big spike. Am I predicting that NFTs are about to make a comeback? Absolutely not, but I’m sure there are plenty of folks in NFT-based communities that are sure they’re still on the gravy train.

Oh no you’re about to talk about the apes aren’t you?

Sure am!

If you haven’t heard about the Bored Ape Yacht Club, it’s one of the most successful NFT projects, with apes (which are procedurally generated and have unique characteristics) selling for millions of dollars. The company behind the series of NFTs has created a spin-off cryptocurrency, broken the blockchain for a few hours with how popular one of their sales was, and even acquired other massive NFT brands. And a reminder: this all happened because people really like saying that they own a picture of a Bored Ape.

People like, for instance, Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton, who discussed their apes on TV in a clip that went viral for being soooo uncomfortable.

This kind of club isn’t really a new phenomenon — people have long built communities based on things they own, and now it’s happening with NFTs. It could be argued that one of the earliest NFT projects, CryptoPunks, got big thanks to its community.

Bored Ape Yacht Club members want to build an empire, starting with weed

What’s the point of NFTs?

That really depends on whether you’re an artist or a buyer.

I’m an artist.

First off: I’m proud of you. Way to go. You might be interested in NFTs because it gives you a way to sell work that there otherwise might not be much of a market for. If you come up with a really cool digital sticker idea, what are you going to do? Sell it on the iMessage App Store? No way.

Also, some NFT marketplaces have a feature where you can make sure you get paid a percentage every time your NFT is sold or changes hands. That makes sure that if your work gets super popular and balloons in value, you’ll see some of that benefit.

I’m a buyer.

One of the obvious benefits of buying art is it lets you financially support artists you like, and that’s true with NFTs (which are way trendier than, like, Telegram stickers). Buying an NFT also usually gets you some basic usage rights, like being able to post the image online or set it as your profile picture. Plus, of course, there are bragging rights that you own the art, with a blockchain entry to back it up.

No, I meant I’m a collector.

Ah, okay, yes. NFTs can work like any other speculative asset, where you buy it and hope that the value of it goes up one day, so you can sell it for a profit. I feel kind of dirty for talking about that, though.

So every NFT is unique?

In the boring, technical sense that every NFT is a unique token on the blockchain. But while it could be like a van Gogh, where there’s only one definitive actual version, it could also be like a trading card, where there’s 50 or hundreds of numbered copies of the same artwork.

Who would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for what basically amounts to a trading card?

Well, that’s part of what makes NFTs so messy. Some people treat them like they’re the future of fine art collecting (read: as a playground for the mega-rich), and some people treat them like Pokémon cards (where they’re accessible to normal people but also a playground for the mega-rich). Speaking of Pokémon cards, Logan Paul sold some NFTs relating to a million-dollar box of the—

Please stop. I hate where this is going.

You’ve activated my trap card (which sold for $17,000).

Image by Logan Paul

Yeah, he sold NFT video clips, which are just clips from a video you can watch on YouTube anytime you want, for up to $20,000. He also sold NFTs of a Logan Paul Pokémon card.

Who paid $20,000 for a video clip of Logan Paul?!

A fool and their money are soon parted, I guess?

It would be hilarious if Logan Paul decided to sell 50 more NFTs of the exact same video.

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda (who also sold some NFTs that included a song) actually talked about that. It’s totally a thing someone could do if they were, in his words, “an opportunist crooked jerk.” I’m not saying that Logan Paul is that, just that you should be careful who you buy from.

Are NFTs mainstream now?

It depends on what you mean. If you’re asking if, say, my mom owns one, the answer is no.

The response from my mom when I asked her about owning NFTs.

But we have seen big brands and celebrities like Marvel and Wayne Gretzky launch their own NFTs, which seem to be aimed at more traditional collectors, rather than crypto-enthusiasts. While I don’t think I’d call NFTs “mainstream” in the way that smartphones are mainstream, or Star Wars is mainstream, they do seem to have, at least to some extent, shown some staying power even outside of the cryptosphere.

But what do The Youth think of them?

Ah yes, excellent question. We here at The Verge have an interest in what the next generation is doing, and it certainly does seem like some of them have been experimenting with NFTs. An 18 year-old who goes by the name FEWOCiOUS says that his NFT drops have netted over $17 million — though obviously most haven’t had the same success. The New York Times talked to a few teens in the NFC space, and some said they used NFTs as a way to get used to working on a project with a team, or to just earn some spending money.

Okay, but what does Keanu Reeves think of NFTs?

He doesn’t seem impressed.

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That moment would make a great NFT.

Someone thought that too, and minted that clip as an NFT. It wasn’t us though! Rampant copyright infringement is an ongoing problem in the space. One of the post popular NFT trading sites estimated that over 80 percent of the artwork minted using its free tool were “plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam.” Which is, you know, not a great look?

The counterfeit NFT problem is only getting worse

Can I buy this article as an NFT?

No, but technically anything digital could be sold as an NFT (including articles from Quartz and The New York Times, provided you have anywhere from $1,800 to $560,000). deadmau5 has sold digital animated stickers. William Shatner has sold Shatner-themed trading cards (one of which was apparently an X-ray of his teeth).

This one I like. Maybe not for $700, but...

Image by deadmau5 and Mad Dog Jones

Gross. Actually, could I buy someone’s teeth as an NFT?

There have been some attempts at connecting NFTs to real-world objects, often as a sort of verification method. Nike has patented a method to verify sneakers’ authenticity using an NFT system, which it calls CryptoKicks. But so far, I haven’t found any teeth, no. I’m scared to look.

Look? Where?

There are several marketplaces that have popped up around NFTs, which allow people to buy and sell. These include OpenSea, Rarible, and Grimes’ choice, Nifty Gateway, but there are plenty of others.

I’ve heard there were kittens involved. Tell me about the kittens.

NFTs really became technically possible when the Ethereum blockchain added support for them as part of a new standard. Of course, one of the first uses was a game called CryptoKitties that allowed users to trade and sell virtual kittens. Thank you, internet.

I love kittens.

Not as much as the person who paid over $170,000 for one.

My face when I’m worth $170K.

Image: Cryptokitties.co

Arrrrrggggg!

Same. At one point I thought that the kittens would be used in games in a somewhat interesting ways. That glimmer of hope has been decimated by the fact that almost every salesperson in the NFT space promises that their tokens will be part of a game or metaverse.

When real game developers like Ubisoft and the studio behind STALKER have said they’d integrate NFTs into their games... people reacted VERY negatively. The companies have either had to scrap their plans entirely or severely tone down the amount of blockchain stuff in their games.

Of course, there have been a few fun experiments in the NFT space (though I’ll admit that at least one of them was poking fun at the concept of NFTs), but... listen, one of the most successful NFT-based games is kind of a weird version of feudalism, and also got mega-hacked. So there’s that.

At least it’s not digital pet rocks... right?

In fact, there are people who spent tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on NFT pet rocks (the website for which says that the rocks serve no purpose other than being tradable and limited).

ROCK THREAD: Why I spent $46,300/15 ETH for a PNG file of a grey pet rock and why I think it could end up being one of the best investments I make since getting into crypto. A thread (continued) #EtherRock #EtherRocks pic.twitter.com/kkkUVGFKh7

— z (@degenharambe) August 7, 2021

Can I cry on your shoulder?

Only if I can cry on yours.

Could I pull off a museum heist to steal NFTs?

This image is not an NFT. Yet.

Image: Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

That depends. Part of the allure of blockchain is that it stores a record of each time a transaction takes place, making it harder to steal and flip than, say, a painting hanging in a museum.

Or at least that’s the theory. In reality, many, many people have gotten their NFTs stolen by attackers using a variety of tactics. To be clear, hackers aren’t always playing 5D chess here. For the ever complicated hack of the programs that control the flow of crypto, there’s a case where someone was tricked into signing a transaction they shouldn’t have through run-of-the-mill phishing.

OpenSea’s official Discord compromised in a phishing attack that stole at least $18k worth of NFTs

Note: Please don’t steal.

Should I be worried about digital art being around in 500 years?

Probably. Bit rot is a real thing: image quality deteriorates, file formats can’t be opened anymore, websites go down, people forget the password to their wallets. But physical art in museums is also shockingly fragile.

But wait, doesn’t the fact that they’re on the blockchain make them permanent?

Okay, so this is a whole thing. Technically, yes: when you say NFT you’re referring to an entry on the blockchain. However, the actual media, like the picture, GIF, or flagrant flaunting of copyright law is very rarely actually stored on the blockchain — it’d be too expensive to do that.

Sometimes the media the NFT points to is stored on a cloud service, which isn’t exactly decentralized. Since this has come up as an issue, with people worried that their NFT proving they watched the Lions lose could go poof if one company goes under or changes their URL scheme, many in the NFT space have been turning to decentralized storage solutions like the InterPlanetary File System that use torrent-like technology. It’s not bulletproof, but it’s better than having your million-dollar JPG stored on Google Photos.

Torrent-like? So people are pirating NFTs?

No... Well, kinda, but hold that thought. The idea behind IPFS is that files are stored on a peer-to-peer network, meaning they could be stored on several computers at once. Files are given an identifier, and when a computer goes to load the file it asks the IPFS network to give it the file with that ID. Any of the computers storing it can say, “Oh, here it is!”

When you make an NFT, the content link is baked into the token. If that link goes to IPFS, it’ll be pointing to something that’s more permanent than, say, an image on a regular server.

In theory, anyways. Of course, distributed does not equal perfect. Experts have warned that files could still end up on a single computer, and could be lost in the case of a hard drive crash.

Your million-dollar NFT can break tomorrow if you’re not careful

Okay, so what’s that you said about pirating?

So someone created this site called The NFT Bay as a sort of art project, where they put up a torrent pointing to a 19TB ZIP file, which they said included every NFT on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. There’s some doubt about whether was actually a treasure trove of NFTs (if such a thing could be referred to as “treasure”), but in theory it’s actually possible to scan the blockchain to find every record of an NFT being minted, and download the media it links to.

Real or not, it was an incredible piece of performance art, sparking a conversation (okay, closer to a flame war) about the right-clicker mindset.

Sorry, what on Earth is a right-clicker mindset?

Ah, sorry. “Right clicker” is sort of a joking derisive term used by NFT boosters to deride people who just don’t get it. The thought is that you’re completely missing the point if you think that just downloading (or pirating) a JPEG will actually get you the valuable part of an NFT.

Go ahead, make yourself a gold-coated steak at home. Post a picture of it on Instagram. See how much clout it gets you. Salt Bae's dish costs 1500GBP because people want to pay 1500GBP to show off that they can afford to pay that much. It's all about the flex.

— m0nt0y4.eth | 9483.eth (@MidwitMilhouse) October 26, 2021

Has anyone ever had their feelings hurt when someone tells them they have a right click mindset? Probably not, but their eyes may get a little sore from rolling so hard.

The counterfeit NFT problem is only getting worse

I want to maximize my blockchain use. Can I buy NFTs with cryptocurrencies?

Yes. Probably. A lot of the marketplaces accept Ethereum. But technically, anyone can sell an NFT, and they could ask for whatever currency they want.

Will trading my Logan Paul NFTs contribute to global warming and melt Greenland?

It’s definitely something to look out for. Since NFTs use the same blockchain technology as some energy-hungry cryptocurrencies, they also end up using a lot of electricity. There are people working on mitigating this issue, but so far, most NFTs are still tied to cryptocurrencies that generate a lot of greenhouse gas emissions. There have been a few cases where artists have decided to not sell NFTs or to cancel future drops after hearing about the effects they could have on climate change. Thankfully, one of my colleagues has really dug into it, so you can read this piece to get a fuller picture.

The NFT market has grown, As eight-figure auctions have shown. The overall price is A worse climate crisis For art you pretend that you own.

— Limericking (@Limericking) March 15, 2021

Can I build an underground art cave / bunker to store my NFTs?

Well, like cryptocurrencies, NFTs are stored in digital wallets (though it is worth noting that the wallet does specifically have to be NFT-compatible). You could always put the wallet on a computer in an underground bunker, though.

What if I wanted to watch a TV show that’s somehow related to NFTs?

Believe it or not, you have options! Steve Aoki is working on a show based on a character from a previous NFT drop, called Dominion X. The show’s site says that it’ll be an episodic series launched on the blockchain (the first short video is on OpenSea), and there are hundreds of NFTs already associated with the show.

There’s also a show called Stoner Cats (yes, it’s about cats that get high, and yes it stars Mila Kunis, Chris Rock, and Jane Fonda), which uses NFTs as a sort of ticket system. Currently, there’s only one episode available, but a Stoner Cat NFT (which, of course, is called a TOKEn) is required to watch it.

Random question: what’s an NFT party like?

My colleague went to an event linked to NFT.NYC. It sounds like it was a... unique (or should I say non-fungible?) experience.

Are you tired of typing “NFT”?

Yes.

This story was first published March 3rd, 2021. It has been updated to reflect new developments in NFTs.

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baseballcardcollection · 2 years

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The Most Valuable Baseball Cards

Not many people know that some of the most valuable baseball cards actually belong to a pitcher. This card is from 1906, and it features Joe Doyle, who pitched for the New York Highlanders of the American League. The card was printed with an error and was subsequently corrected to read "NAT'L". In 2012, a collector bought the card for $414,750 at auction. This example shows how a single card can become incredibly valuable.

A single card from the legendary Derek Jeter, a first-ballot Hall of Famer, is worth a lot of money. He was a 14-time All-Star, a five-time World Series MVP, the AL Rookie of the Year, and the captain of the Yankees. Buying pokemon cards featuring this incredible player is a great way to show your support for the team and for a great piece of history.

Even though these cards are valuable, the price of a high-graded version is still low. But the Honus Wagner T206 is the most valuable baseball card ever sold. Goldin Auctions sold a PSA EX 5 copy for $3.12 million in December 2011. The PSA grade is a key factor in determining the value of a card. Beckett Grading Services is another resource that grades cards. The highest grade of a baseball card is Gem Mint 10. Read more about the most valuable baseball cards from this yu-gi-oh card guide now.

There are many examples of cards with high prices. The 1952 Topps card of Mickey Mantle is one of the most expensive. He was a record holder and married a famous actress, Marilyn Monroe. The card made him a pop-culture icon and card became worth millions of dollars. The song "I Wanna Be Like You" by the Les Brown Orchestra immortalized him. A 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Prospects Superfractor card of Mike Trout went on to sell for over three million dollars.

A very rare card is an error card. For instance, a 1986 Donruss card featuring Barry Bonds and Johnny Ray is worth $288,000 in near-mint condition. In contrast, the 1988 Donruss card with DiMaggio features a darker blue background. Both cards are highly desirable and can fetch more than $3m if in near-mint condition. There are even rarer cards featuring Hall of Famers. If you want to invest in one of these cards, you must be aware that you may never find the perfect one.

Another highly valuable card belongs to Ty Cobb. He was one of the greatest players in baseball history. The card depicts his name in red and is regarded as the most valuable. A family recently discovered eight Ty Cobb cards in their great-grandparents' home. A PSA 5 copy of the card sold for over $3 million. Another example of an iconic rookie card is a 1932 U.S. Caramel that features the image of Bambino as best remembered by fans.

A rare and valuable baseball card is a "Holy Grail" for collectors. The value of this card depends on its condition and scarcity. There are only 50-50 copies of this card, so beware of counterfeits. PSA grading services are an excellent resource for this kind of authentication. The price you pay for this card maybe thousands of times the value of the actual card. The price of a Wagner card is also dependent on the rarity and condition of the card. View more details relating to this topic here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/for-the-love-of-baseball-cards_b_588b42dae4b0020b224b43b0.

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For the record, there is zero knowledge on the value of these baseball cards, this is all just my random observation. That being said, I want to thank Deans Cards and Beckett for the images on this article. There are countless articles, magazines, websites, etc. on the value of baseball cards. I have never seen anything about the most popular Cincinnati Reds baseball cards.

I don’t have a Mount Rushmore of baseball cards. My two favorites on that list is Honus Wagner’s T206 and Junior Griffey’s 89 Upper Deck rookie card.

I would love to hear other opinions of some great Reds cards. I do have countless crap baseball cards, but I do have this occasionally fantastic Sabo rookie card!

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Many observers of President Donald J. Trump believe he is crazy. That he has some bats in the belfry. How did Trump become so narcissistic? So delusional? When did reality begin to slip from his grasp? How in the balls did he not change that absurd hairdo over the years?

All valid questions. Journalists and biographers have noted that Trump was born rich and raised privileged, never receiving an understanding of how common life operates. That he has surrounded himself with sycophantic yes-men his whole professional career that have only told him what he wants to hear, therefore tilting reality. That he is the greatest living example of the Dunning-Kruger effect; a psychological disorder where one assesses their abilities and intelligence much higher than what is accurate. All that is true, but there’s another, more influential factor that hardly anyone outside of Trump’s inner circle knows about.

National Lampoon has spent the last seven months confirming the details of this new bombshell revelation. For the following shocking information, we have traded to various sources, three million dollars cash, a rare Les Paul guitar that I stole from Slash at the Whiskey a Go Go in 2002, a box of John Belushi memorabilia, a Honus Wagner T206 baseball card, and two intern’s lives. They are missed. By their families.

What our exhaustive investigation has confirmed is that since 1987 Donald Trump has been a habitual user of the exotic psychoactive drug ibogaine. Every month an unmarked private airplane flies in an ibogaine supply from the Republic of Congo or Burundi.

Thirty years of regular ibogaine use has scrambled Donald Trump’s already-addled mind. This has begun to explain his erratic and strange behavior. As well as his bizarre speech patterns. Trump believes he is smart and informed. He believes he’s still handsome and in shape, not a tubby sack of goo. He thinks his hair is acceptable for a human being. All because of the longterm effects of ibogaine abuse.

With this startling revelation made public, National Lampoon presents to you, faithful reader, our next report from Washington D.C.

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Meanwhile, in Donald Trump’s White House…Episode 7

The hallucinogenic drug is sandwiched between two Chicken McNuggets. A sort of fast-food/narcotics Oreo. This is how President Donald Trump has been self-administering ibogaine for thirty years.

The bark from the iboga root smuggled to the White House from Burundi has been scraped into a mortar and ground with a pestle into a greenish mush. The President then begins layering: chicken nugget, highly potent ibogaine paste, chicken nugget. Within an hour, a 20 piece McNugget is devoured with the entire bowl of ibogaine. All washed down with a Diet Coke.

An hour later, at 1:45 am in the Treaty Room, after six hours of watching television, President Trump has begun to hallucinate. The first image he sees is his father. A hatrack in a corner of the room has a bowler hat on top, forgotten and left behind by trusted longtime advisor Roger Stone. As the President fades into higher consciousness, as if it were a character in Beauty and the Beast, the hatrack smoothly transforms into Fred Trump, bowler hat on top of his head. His three piece suit’s lapel is accompanied by a red and white “Blood Drop” button from the Ku Klux Klan.

“Dad? Is that you? It’s me, Donny.”

“Hello son. How’s everything going?”

“Dad, I’m doing great. Tremendous. You’d love it. Love me. You’d love me. Do you love me?”

Fred Trump furrows his brow and says, “You’re doing okay, son, but I don’t like how uppity the darkies are getting. Those town hall meetings are a problem. Why are women allowed to speak in those? Those marches are a problem.”

The President of the United States starts peeling off his baggy suit as he says, “Dad, don’t worry, we have all kinds of people, great people, the best, working on voter suppression all across America. It’s going great. You’ll love me. Uh, dammit … you’ll love the voter suppression thing. And me. I think. Please.”

As he finishes that sentence, President Trump has stripped down to his white Fruit of the Loom briefs and navy blue socks.

Fred Trump says, “Son, I’ve been thinking. I think you should reach out to some of your peers for feedback on how the presidency is coming along.”

“Where should I go to do that, dad?” the President asks.

“There’s only one place that has all your equals gathered in one spot. I think you know where. Now shag ass and get out of here. Remember, blood and soil, son.”

Fred Trump dematerializes into smoke and is gone.

President Trump, in his tighty-whities, passionately hugs the hatrack in the corner of of the Treaty Room. “Thank you, dad.”

At 3:07 am, President Trump has donned the outfit he always wears as he trips on ibogaine. His white Fruit of the Loom briefs, leather Birkenstock sandals with socks, and a lion’s head cape. The full hide of a male African lion is draped over the shoulders of the President. The front paws of the beast are around Trump’s neck and tied together like how a preppy douchebag would wear a teal Izod sweater to the country club in 1984. The jaws of the lion cover his, uh … distinctive hairstyle.

A couple floors below the Treaty Room a Secret Service agent finishes a phone call with President Trump and tells his coworkers, “Bird’s Nest is hopped up on that weird iguana-root-whatever-the-hell-it-is stuff again tonight. He wants to go to the National Gallery. Bring an unmarked car around. We’ll sneak him out the North Portico.”

The President of the United States stumbles down the hallway of the second floor of the White House, past the Lincoln Bedroom, in his underpants and lion’s head cape. The ibogaine has fully kicked in now. From above, the crystal chandelier morphs into a silver octopus, its tentacles reach down and caress Trump’s orange-tinted cheek.

“Thissss wayyyy to your carrrr, sirrrr,” the octopus hisses, and points a tentacle towards the elevator.

Two Secret Service agents emerge from that elevator to grab the President by the elbows and lead him to the driveway outside the North Portico. Once it is made sure nobody is around to witness the President in his current state, Trump is hustled into the backseat of an unmarked black Cadillac CTS-V.

In the dead of night, it only takes seven minutes to travel from the White House to the National Portrait Gallery. Along the short journey, Trump stares out the window of the Cadillac and remarks to the Secret Service agents in the car that “Those green trees outside are fuckin good dancers.”

Once at the Gallery, the Secret Service usher President Trump inside, bring him up to the second floor, close the doors, and post two armed agents at every possible entrance or exit.

The National Gallery’s floors are covered in crimson carpet. Ivory-colored walls. President Trump walks down one of the corridors, studying his left hand, waving it in front of his face. His fingers have become a crude but colorful hand turkey. Like what a kindergartner would trace and draw just before Thanksgiving. As Trump waggles his feather-fingers and giggles, the portrait of George Washington turns his head, watching Trump shuffle by.

The painting of Washington turns his head the other way, towards Thomas Jefferson’s portrait. Washington says aloud, “Tom. Tom! Wake up. We have a visitor.”

The portrait of Thomas Jefferson rolls his eyes and says, “Oh for heaven’s sake. What the blazes is he doing here? Attention, gentleman! All Presidents! Everybody up and pay attention! Like it or not—” Jefferson’s voice dips a few octaves, “Trump is here.”

The paintings in the gallery come to life, stretching their arms, cracking their necks. John Adams slaps himself in the face a few times trying to come to.

Lyndon Johnson spits a green loogie onto the crimson carpet and farts loudly.

Ronald Reagan is the only President that stays asleep. He never wakes the rest of the evening, snoring softly, dreaming of horsies.

The crest of the ibogaine high has hit President Trump. To his eyes, his hands now look like campfires, orange and yellow flickering flames, and his feet are steelhead salmon. Trump stands in front of George Washington and says, “Which one are you?”

“I’m George Washington, Donald. I started all this.”

“Right. Right. I knew that. I predicted you’d be the first I talked to. Back to last week I said it. Ask anyone. Everyone knows that.”

Washington sighs. “Uh huh. I have a question for you.”

“Yes. Yes. I answer all questions,” Trump says.

“We don’t understand your hair. Would you like to borrow my wig?”

The Presidents on the second floor of the National Portrait Gallery burst into laughter. Calvin Coolidge snorts twice as he laughs.

Even tripping balls, even off his tits, Trump is as thin-skinned and overly sensitive as a spoiled 15-year-old girl forced to wear a secondhand gown to a debutante ball. “How dare you, you motherfu—“

“Whoa nelly! Easy, son!” cries out Teddy Roosevelt’s painting. “Come over here, boy.”

Trumps limps over to Teddy Roosevelt, nearly tripping into the painting of Ulysses S. Grant in the process. “Watch it, you Neanderthal flapdoodle!” Grant yells.

Inside his portrait frame, the great hunter Roosevelt points to President Trump’s lion’s head cape. “What in holy hell is that?” he asks.

Trump proudly says, “Lion cape! Modeled after the great Emperor Commodus’ cape! Great leader. Strong leader. Little crazy, maybe, murdered a lot of people, but you have to say he was a strong leader.”

“Look at that puny lion!” Roosevelt roars, laughing from his belly. “You’re like a little old lady with a house cat!”

In three seconds, Trump goes from strutting peacock to head-burying ostrich.

Teddy continued. “It was nineteen-aught-nine, my boy, and I led the Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition. Mombasa, British East Africa — what you call Kenya — and some other far off African locales. Perhaps some where that intoxicant you are currently receiving the benefits of originated from.” Teddy knew about the ibogaine.

Most of the the of Presidents in the Portrait Gallery are rolling their eyes and yawning, knowing the longwinded former President may not stop talking for a while. Theodore Roosevelt is not known for brevity. This is a man who once delivered a fifty page speech with an assassin’s bullet lodged in his chest.

Teddy continued. “Seventeen lions, my boy! That’s what I bagged personally. And sixteen of the beasts were larger than that bobcat wrapped around your fat turkey neck! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!”

Intently listening to this exchange is Abraham Lincoln, who is waiting patiently in his picture frame, scraping underneath his fingernails with a pocketknife. Lincoln begins softly whistling “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

Drawn to the music, President Trump begins stumbling over to the portrait of our 16th Commander in Chief. He watches his steelhead salmon feet flopping across the crimson carpet that now appears to be flowing lava.

Passing Thomas Jefferson’s painting, Trump pretends not to hear Jefferson say, “You are a cockered, motley-minded, maggot-pie. The vast chasm that is your ignorance is shocking. And your hair is stupid.”

Trump stands in front of Lincoln’s framed portrait. He raises a hand with fingers that now look like purple slugs, their small tentacles twitching, towards Lincoln, wanting to touch who he just found out was a Republican.

“Do not put your hands on my frame, Mr. President, its an antique.”

“You called me Mr. President. President Lincoln, you’re the one in here that respects me. I’m doing a great job as President. A lot of people are saying the best job since you.”

“Who are these people?” Lincoln asks.

“Everyone is saying it.”

“Who?”

For someone who speaks fluent hyperbole, but limited English, Trump struggles to find the answer to Lincoln’s simple question.

“Who says you are doing a great job, Donald?”

Trump finally stammers out, “Some people, great people, loyal people, on, uh … Fox News.”

Lincoln’s craggy face slowly moves into a smile. Then a chuckle. Then a hearty laugh. He is then joined by thirty-eight dead Presidents of the United States in laughter. Reagan still hasn’t stirred.

Lincoln says, “That’s hilarious, Mr. President. That Fox place is bringing hypocrisy to new levels of amazement. Donald, you haven’t achieved anything. Nothing. You are a stain on this hallowed office. And the dumbest individual to ever step foot in the White House.”

This statement is met with various cries of “Hear, hear!” and “Well said!” and “Amen!” from around the gallery.

“President Lincoln, ple—“

“Let me tell you something, Donald,” Lincoln went on, America stands alone on this, our Heavenly Father’s Earth. All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge Mountains in a trial of a thousand years. I said that a long time ago. With you at the helm, Donald, I no longer believe it.”

The ibogaine is beginning to wear off. President Trump’s trip is winding down. He stands, in the National Portrait Gallery in his underpants, weeping.

Lincoln had one more jab left. “Donald! Don’t know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old boy — you sockdologizing old truth-trap! It’s a shame, Mr. President, that you have no idea how funny that is.”

Illustration by Mikey B. Martinez III

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“We’re going to keep up the tradition, but I don’t know for how long,” Darrell Osterhoudt said by telephone.

Homer Osterhoudt’s devotion to the induction ceremonies was not because of a love of baseball. He was, at best, a casual fan without an allegiance to a particular team. But he felt like he was part of the Hall because, as a young man, he helped build it. In 1937, Osterhoudt was hired as a laborer with the Bedford Construction Co. and kept working on the Hall through the winter of ’38.

“We set up a cement mixing machine in front of the post office on Main Street,” he recalled in 2008 during an interview for an oral history program at the State University of New York, Oneonta. “We carted, wheelbarrowed cement over to the foundation across the street for the Hall of Fame. After they got the foundation done, they put up the building sides with concrete blocks and then bricks.”

When the hall opened its doors to the first classes of inductees in 1939, Osterhoudt roamed the village taking pictures of them (and other major leaguers) as they arrived, marched in a parade, gathered on a platform in front of the Hall for the induction and played a game at Doubleday Field.

“It was quite an event for Cooperstown,” he said in the oral history.

Osterhoudt’s snapshots provide a more kinetic view of the events that day than the famous group portrait of 10 of the 11 living inductees (except for Ty Cobb, who was late).

From Osterhoudt’s amateur camera emerged images of Ruth delivering his induction remarks, Dizzy Dean warming up for the game at Doubleday Field and Wagner signing an autograph at the local train station. He also captured Hank Greenberg striding down a village street while fans tried to keep up with him, Cookie Lavagetto and Stan Hack carrying flags in the induction parade, and Johnson leaning over from the induction platform in front of the Hall to sign his name to autograph books and programs.

After serving in the Army Air Forces in the South Pacific during World War II, Osterhoudt married Marion Potter, worked as a mail carrier for more than 30 years and served his church and the Boy Scouts. In retirement, he delivered meals to the elderly.

“He just thought that’s what you do: you live in a community, you get involved in things,” Darrell Osterhoudt said. “That was just his philosophy. He didn’t think it was unusual.”

And he continued to attend nearly every induction. Sometimes he asked Hall of Famers like Ozzie Smith to sign his pictures of them. In 1989, he donated scores of his pictures from 1939 to the Hall, and was later invited to attend an annual discussion at the Hall that commemorates the first induction.

“He was a happy guy who loved the Hall of Fame and the people who came to it,” said Jeff Idelson, president of the Hall. “He realized the impact he had on people who loved the game more than he did.”

Brad Horn, a former public relations executive at the Hall, added, “He was the ultimate living Cooperstown attraction, always with a smile and a story.”

At the induction four years ago, Osterhoudt reflected on the unexpected fame that longevity had brought him.

“Everybody wants to take my picture and wants my autograph,” he told The Parkersburg News and Sentinel of West Virginia. “I guess I am a celebrity. At least that’s what they say.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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More position players are pitching than ever before, and there’s a simple explanation why

Nobody told the Giants or Angels, but it’s hip to use a position player to pitch.

On July 30, the Houston Astros were losing 13-0 to the Detroit Tigers, and first baseman Tyler White threw an inning. There was nothing particularly remarkable about it. Just a bench player saving his bullpen.

On July 31, Rays catcher Jesus Sucre threw an inning against the Astros. Again, there was nothing remarkable about this. Just a utility player saving his bullpen. Though, I suppose it’s notable that the Astros were involved in two consecutive games with a position player pitching.

On August 1, Daniel Descalso threw an inning for the Arizona Diamondbacks. There was nothing particularly remarkable about it. It was his second career pitching appearance for the infielder, and he’s still tied with Honus Wagner and others for the best ERA in major league history.

Except, wait a second. Three straight days? Was this the first time three position players had pitched before in three consecutive days?

So I looked. Five seconds later, I found an instance of three position players pitching on two consecutive days, with one day featuring two in separate games. That was July 26 and July 27 of this year.

That’s six position players on the mound within a week. Eight since the start of July. Fifteen since the start of June, and 24 since the start of the 2017 seasons. That’s not even including experimental hybrid, Christian Bethancourt. While Chris Gimenez is a repeat performer (six times this year alone), that still means 18 different position players have pitched this season.

Is this a trend? Can I write a trend-piece? I wanna find a trend.

To the stat cave!

Oh, man, you’d better believe it’s a trend.

While it looks like the trend is down from last year, note that the season isn’t over. There were 26 position players who pitched last year and 24 so far this year. The record for as far back as Baseball-Reference’s Play Index search went was 27 in 2015*. It would appear that the position-player-pitching records are destined to fall, just like so many home run records. And maybe those two aren’t unrelated.

* Or not. I got confused when I got to the early ‘40s because there was a generation of half-pitcher, half-hitters from the Island of Dr. Kieschnick. Hybrids like Max Macon, Chubby Dean, Rene Monteagudo, and Johnny O’Brien seemed like they were midway through a permanent conversion one way or the other ... but still stuck in the other world. Even Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx was experimenting in this arena. So I quit counting. Your mileage may vary.

While we’re here, it’s time to update the master list of the last time position players pitched for each franchise. A lot has changed since we last did this in 2014.

As we can see, the Giants and Angels hate fun. The best factlet that I found while doing this is that 11 days before Chili Davis pitched for the Angels, utility infielder Rene Gonzales pitched for them. That’s two position players pitching within two weeks, and then poof. Nothing. No joy for Angels fans in their blowouts. Just the pain of a blowout and pure drudgery.

The other big surprise for me is that the Rockies are going on a 15-year streak without using a position player on the mound. That’s some admirable restraint for a team pitching a mile above sea level, though maybe that’s because a 10-run deficit doesn’t make the Rockies feel as hopeless as it makes other teams.

If there’s an answer as to why position players pitching are in vogue, I don’t think it’s too complicated. In 2016, 36.7 percent of all innings thrown came from a reliever. In 1976, 27.5 percent of baseball’s innings came from the bullpen. In 1956, it was 28 percent. And not only have the innings increase, but so has the importance. Bullpens back 40 and 50 years ago were contingency plans, something you kept in a glass case for when something went wrong.

Now they’re weapons. They’re a part of a team’s blueprint. And the earlier a team starts getting blown out, the more a manager will be forced to contemplate using one of their best pitchers in a useless effort that will do nothing but suck the pitches out of his arm.

Or he could use Chris Gimenez.

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Yeah, hey, Chris.

It makes sense, and the desire to keep a bullpen fresh is obvious when you compare the position-player pitchers used today to some of the position players from years past. We know one of the most famous examples of a star pitching:

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I’ve read a lot of people suggest this inning was the reason that Jose Canseco needed Tommy John surgery a month later, and it’s definitely a juicy twist to the story, one that definitely fits with the person of a dude who hit a home run with his head and has figured out the mysteries of life. Alas, it’s too good to be true. From Kevin Kennedy’s book, Twice Around the Bases:

The report from Dr. Jobe took some of the heat off.

He explained that this was a progressive injury, a tear that was becoming greater over time and probably had begun the year before. Jose’s full-fan performance in the bullpen might have enhanced it, and then the throw from the outfield finally blew out the elbow.

It didn’t help, no. But the elbow was gummy for a while, and regular baseball activities were going to get Canseco.

After Canseco, though, the stars stopped pitching. For obvious reasons. But in the past, there was Ted Williams, Stan Musial (for a one-batter publicity stunt), Rocky Colavito, and Sal Bando. You will probably never see that again.

Probably because the position-player pitcher is here to prevent injury and fatigue, not create it. And it’s a trend that’s going strong and makes too much sense to go away. While baseball is cyclical and this could go the way of the stolen base, there’s very little risk to go with the measurable reward of keeping your bullpen fresh. I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers stayed in the 20s.

As for the Giants, who hate fun? There’s hope.

Bochy never uses position players on mound in blowouts but said with Moncrief "it's a legit thought."

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 8, 2017

That would be Carlos Moncrief, an outfielder who touched 97 in a blowout for the Sacramento River Cats this year. All that needs to happen is for the Giants to find themselves in a blowout, which, gee, stranger things have happened.

Until then, stay vigilant, folks. There are a couple of stragglers who haven’t used a position player to pitch this millennium, and the rest of the league is leaving them way behind. The position-player pitcher is a more common creature these days, but I’m not tired of it yet. Apparently, neither are managers.

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