Saturday, March 7, 2026

Peel and Stick

My grandbaby loves stickers. She's almost two and can't get enough of them. Her little fingers are really good at finding the edge and peeling them off the backing. She puts them on a blank piece of paper, in no real order or design, just sticks them there until the paper is mostly full then moves on to another sheet. She doesn't care about peeling them up and re-sticking them as long as there are others to peel and stick. She can do that for hours. My daughter loves it because it keeps the baby occupied.

I love stickers too, especially Fleer Baseball Stickers. I've been collecting them for years, including all the variations. I got really amped up about them when I first discovered The Fleer Sticker Project over a decade ago. Man-o-man best blog EVER! Reading all his research behind all the stickers and variations got me hooked.


I don't peel and stick my stickers though. The get handled carefully and put into 9-pocket pages for safe keeping.


My checklist cards do too. 
Many collectors don't care for checklists and would never consider trading for them, but I do.
I love them, baseball checklists, that is.

The cards above all came from Jareb.



Here's a bunch of All Star Game parallels and other Angels from jqs94:




And a trade with Scoot's Collectibles:


Some pretty cool parallels from 2003 Bowman Heritage: Knothole Rainbow and Facsimile Signature.
And a Rendon. Glad he's gone.




Here are cards from crushnmove:





And lastly, one from jamestagli:


I'm not big on Prizm, but they sure have some nice red/white/blue cards.



Nope, wait, another trade came in from Kaline6:


More towards the 1987 Angels quest: Topps Tiffany Update (with a nice airbrushed Greg Minton), and a 1987 Rookies cartoon back of Devon White.



More great Fleer stickers and a couple 1989 Upper Deck towards the set build. The Bill Schroeder is an error card showing Ronn Reynolds on the back.






7 comments:

  1. Yep, I found that Fleer Sticker Project blog and go to for info over a decade ago, and keep it saved in my favorite files.

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  2. What was it with Greg Minton and bad airbrushes?

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  3. I need the 1978 Topps Greg Minton and may now need his 1987 Topps to amuse me.

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  4. My kids loved stickers at that age, used to do the exact same thing.

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  5. a. I'm a huge fan of the 80's Fleer logo stickers too. Takes me back to my childhood. Didn't learn about all of the variations until years later, but I find them intriguing as well.

    b. My nieces in Oregon love stickers too. They buy these books with stickers where you can use them to decorate scenes and people. It's funny how it can keep them entertained for almost an hour. Guess it's better than them staring at an iPad.

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