Skip Schumaker’s new baseball card features the rally squirrel … but not Skip Schumaker

Skip Schumaker’s new baseball card features the rally squirrel … but not Skip Schumaker!

For about a minute there, I remembered how much fun it was when each new Topps series came out and we kids would comb through them for all the most interesting things. Which player wore his glove on the wrong hand or batted from the wrong side of the plate? Who shot the photographer a well-disguised bird? Who gained too much weight? Damn, that was a fun time.