2010 Topps, Joe Mauer

Card No. 150

One of my all-time favorite Joe Mauer cards comes courtesy of 2010 Topps....By all appearances, it looks like the Twins were playing at Tropicana Field in St. Pete....Check the rooster tail of rubber pellets that Joe's kicking up from that artificial surface....This is Mauer's ninth regular Topps card....He shares a "Prospects" rookie card with Minnesota teammate Justin Morneau in 2003 Topps....Joe collected an All-Star nod, a Gold Glove and a Silver Slugger award during the '10 season.

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2010 Topps, Prince Fielder

Card No. 1

In its nearly 70 years of producing baseball card sets, I can't recollect a more colorful or iconic Card No. 1 of a checklist than this beauty of the ever-affable Prince Fielder....Perhaps the greatest home plate celebration of all-time....This is the one-and-only horizontally-oriented base card of Fielder (not counting subset cards)....Prince's rookie card can be found in the 2006 Topps set....Established a career high and led the league with 114 walks in 2010.

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