tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post4626157564960604649..comments2024-03-28T13:44:09.103-04:00Comments on Night Owl Cards: The Rusty Greer Eranight owlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11673973790245316059noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-44048262734381201242016-04-07T13:26:00.632-04:002016-04-07T13:26:00.632-04:00This is a dead period for me, too. I really haven&...This is a dead period for me, too. I really haven't been an active collector since the 80s, but I have a fair amount of junk wax and now I'm buying a little bit of current stuff. But I have very little from that era. I don't even have an Edgardo Alfonzo card, and he's one of my all-time favorite players! Gotts do something about that. B^)Brett Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15909286892005353279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-76760036425341621152016-04-07T01:01:23.274-04:002016-04-07T01:01:23.274-04:00The thing about your "dead period" is th...The thing about your "dead period" is that it was right in the heart of the Oprah Winfrey era--which is what I call it because..."You get a card, and you get a card, and you get a card...everybody gets a card!" You have one Rey Ordonez card, but he had almost as many cards of him as he has games played (and, as a Mets fan, I've got hundreds of them). Even players who played no major league games got cards (heck, there are guys who played no major OR minor league games with plenty of cardboard). In one way, I think that's great. There are lots of players from the 50s and 60s who never got a card (or only got one belatedly from SSPC or Fritsch's One Year Winners). Where do you go to get a card of Rich Puig (other than that crappy little WIZ card)? On the other hand, when I go through my Mets binders and have endless pages of some guy who pitched maybe 10 games for us (if that), its a little tiresome. And someone like John Franco practically needs his own binder. OK, he was good, but c'mon.<br /><br />When I was doing tribute cards last year, I thought the story of Tyler Sash (football Giants) was rather sad so I made him one. I figured here's a guy who wasn't a top draft pick who played a non-glory position and pretty much only played special teams for less than two years before his career was over. He probably never got a card. Then I checked the TCDB. He had at least 114.Stubbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07010142558613227433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-85908568249792536412016-04-07T00:45:58.225-04:002016-04-07T00:45:58.225-04:00Geez. I'm impressed that you can pull those c...Geez. I'm impressed that you can pull those card stats so easily. I can't imagine how your card inventory system works that allows you to say that with such certainty. I don't even know how many Maddux duplicates I have, let alone how many cards I have of some random players stored in boxes.Community Gumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05296365794796762616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-10088941308430539542016-04-06T22:45:06.264-04:002016-04-06T22:45:06.264-04:00Man, your dead period is my falling in love with b...Man, your dead period is my falling in love with baseball period. I saw Troy O'Leary hit a game winning homer for the Expos. I loved Quinton McCracken for the Rockies. Bret Boone was a family fave. Tony Batista was just a beast. Matt Lawton was similarly a fan fave since we saw him play on a business trip of my Dad's to Minnesota. And Rusty Greer was a toughnosed OF who ran through walls for balls - I always thought he was going to be something great.<br /><br />So if you ever decide to change it, you could call it the SpastikMooss era lolol.<br /><br />Additionally, do you (or anyone) remember the dude who used to supercollect Richard Hidalgo? He was one of the first bloggers I talked to a lot, and he's gone now, but he had a crazy high number of cards of the guy, and I always thought that was a fairly interesting collection.SpastikMoosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13374559066158419166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-9532789079333376082016-04-06T22:43:49.212-04:002016-04-06T22:43:49.212-04:00I know what you mean about the parallels.. I tend ...I know what you mean about the parallels.. I tend to try to just get the base and any inserts I like.. Otherwise, I can't be bothered lol.. Mike Matsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07423029196949506523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-79308238366350346702016-04-06T22:42:49.229-04:002016-04-06T22:42:49.229-04:00I followed baseball.. I just didn't have acces...I followed baseball.. I just didn't have access to cards in that period.. Mike Matsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07423029196949506523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-71361154597622349302016-04-06T21:24:21.873-04:002016-04-06T21:24:21.873-04:00I halted card collecting somewhere around 2002. I...I halted card collecting somewhere around 2002. I have nor completed a Topps set from 2003-present. I lost interest with the circus like parallels and variation cards. I still like to piece together the older sets. I have no idea who most of today's players are unless they show up on a game I am watching. Chris Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17626365939200972124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-82011193801607960872016-04-06T21:12:18.554-04:002016-04-06T21:12:18.554-04:00I still followed baseball, although a lot less tha...I still followed baseball, although a lot less than I did before, during that time. I probably follow baseball now as much as I did in the early '80s, but it's not as fun as it was then, for a few reasons.night owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11673973790245316059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-15283631741525995652016-04-06T21:04:53.335-04:002016-04-06T21:04:53.335-04:00Yeah, it should be games. I did this research seve...Yeah, it should be games. I did this research several weeks ago and didn't mark down the category so I'd remember. It's all fixed.night owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11673973790245316059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-25355644755817541012016-04-06T20:53:00.994-04:002016-04-06T20:53:00.994-04:00Something is wrong here, Palmeiro had at least 500...Something is wrong here, Palmeiro had at least 5000 at bats - it appears the list should he HITS. I think everywhere the word At Bats appears should be replace by the word hits or could this possibly be GAMESJohn Batemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14159036395402962119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-45632590962098247462016-04-06T20:35:42.083-04:002016-04-06T20:35:42.083-04:00Well darn if your 'dead period' doesn'...Well darn if your 'dead period' doesn't dovetail with mine. Looking at your first list I thought Garret Anderson was a basketball player. Of the guys whose cards you don't own I know Richard Hidalgo because I saw him in Houston but the other guys are mysteries to me. <br /><br />Were you following baseball but not collecting or, like me, just quit the game for awhile. I gave up with the lockout and I've still never really returned to being the fan I once was.<br /><br />Great idea for a post.Commishbobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18069472376708715755noreply@blogger.com