Mose Schrute Pulled A Tom Brady Rookie For Charity!

Plus a fun Beckett thread about Mickey Mantle

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Mike Junk Wax Hero
February 07, 2025

Happy Friday! Super-busy week, between work and snow removal. Sunday is my birthday, so I’m trying to decide if I’m going to do Clearing the Bases Saturday morning, or record it Saturday night and post it Sunday morning, or if I’ll save it for Monday morning. Whatever I decide, I’m staying on the couch Sunday except to snowblow and shovel again.

On Joe Posnanski’s new YouTube channel, he and Michael Schur — former head writer of The Office (US) and creator of shows like Parks & Rec, The Good Place, and Brooklyn 99 — open old packs of sports cards.

In this week’s episode Schur pulled a numbered Tom Brady rookie:

Schur said he is sending it to PSA for grading, and then they’re going to sell it and donate the money to Team Gleason for ALS research.

PSA 9s routinely sell for around $10,000:

According to PSA, the last PSA 10 2000 SP Authentic of Brady sold for $210,000 on Goldin in March of 2023, but I can’t find a record of it and the link from PSA is dead. Still, a 10 is very valuable.

Schur is from New England and is a lifelong Patriots and Red Sox fan. He also started firejoemorgan.com anonymously and wrote so many hilarious articles before he was outed and ended it soon after, devastating me. His sports roots run deep.

Pretty cool!

A Twitter Thread I Enjoyed

I grew up obsessed with baseball cards, so the monthly Beckett drop was an important day every month. The first thing I did when I opened it was check the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle to see if it had changed in value.

Junk Wax Heroes (no relation to me) posted a thread where he tracked the value for nine Februaries:

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