tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post6418090006104504595..comments2024-03-28T13:44:09.103-04:00Comments on Night Owl Cards: I met the Metsnight owlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11673973790245316059noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-76495808446752846572015-11-01T07:16:15.548-05:002015-11-01T07:16:15.548-05:00I enjoyed reading your post.
The Craig Swan car...I enjoyed reading your post. <br /><br />The Craig Swan card gave me a good idea for a post about cards showing the least amount of team insignia. Another example is the 1969 Joe Mogan with no cap, of course it's 1969, and the picture was shows Morgan from the chest up. Swam's card is almost a full body shot.<br />You've probably already posted something similar in the past.AthleticGiganteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993227153949066667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-58980062843139030522015-11-01T06:50:05.566-05:002015-11-01T06:50:05.566-05:00You mean, you were like me in that you spent forma...You mean, you were like me in that you spent formative years watching guys like Mike Vail and Craig Swan, and yet you DIDN'T become a Mets fan? (Sigh) Sometimes I just don't understand you...<br /><br />I had a similar situation in my own house. My father was a huge New York Rangers fan, but I fell in love with baseball instead. Later when I did get interested in hockey, I was older and wanted my own team, so I never shared my father's love of the Broadway Blueshirts... But I still watched a fair amount of Rangers hockey, and now I find myself joyfully collecting cards of guys like Bill Fairbairn and Steve Vickers because they bring back memories of watching the Rangers because that's what was on our one TV.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-37714140864475385192015-10-31T16:58:40.829-04:002015-10-31T16:58:40.829-04:00Great post!
I mostly understand what you're ...Great post! <br /><br />I mostly understand what you're saying from football when I was forced to watch Jets/Bills/Giants from Rochester feeds. Baseball, I got a lot of Expos and Blue Jays, but watched a lot of Expos in French. I mostly listened to the Expos on the radio and became such a big fan of Duke Snider. With sports packages now, isn't it so nice now to be able to watch pretty much any game you want?<br /><br />The interesting thing about seeing these cards is that I recognize the design so much but see cards that I don't know.<br /><br />OPC sets used the same designs but were smaller sets so they didn't have all the players. With this, and posts on other blogs, I see cards that I don't remember. So nice to see.<br /><br />Thanks for the Mets post. Let's Go Mets!Angushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11652380890985105416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-63737804754078994772015-10-31T08:37:13.334-04:002015-10-31T08:37:13.334-04:00Great post.
Is it just me or does that John Stearn...Great post.<br />Is it just me or does that John Stearns 1978 card look like he has an airbrushed cap? I'd have no reason why it would be airbrushed though.Johngyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18416011578421652629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-9435226050867232142015-10-31T03:23:52.423-04:002015-10-31T03:23:52.423-04:00Loved reading this :)Loved reading this :)Zvonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248402757083992055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-2844471295857913462015-10-31T02:51:37.026-04:002015-10-31T02:51:37.026-04:00Thank you. A nice essay to read as a Mets fan. I...Thank you. A nice essay to read as a Mets fan. I have always loved them. Even when they were losing. Didn't much care for Donald M. Grant and the aptly named Dick Young when they conspired to banish Tom Seaver (and anyone else with talent). But I loved the players, good, bad, or mediocre. Leon Brown is one of my all-time favorite ballplayers because, well, I don't know if the Mets were ever as bad as they were in 1976. And Leon got called up, promptly got an extra base hit, brushed off the dirt, and smiled and clapped like a guy trying to pump up his teammates to get something going. This was on a team that never smiled and rarely hustled; things were just so bad for them. And I saw Leon, smiling and full of delight and enthusiasm. He behaved like someone who understood that he was being paid to stay young playing a kid's game. There was nothing ever going to get him down. That, to me, was baseball the way its supposed to me. I was old enough to have lived through the early Casey Stengel years and old enough to really savor the 1969 Miracle Mets. Still, after that day in 1976, Leon Brown became my favorite ballplayer ever.Stubbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07010142558613227433noreply@blogger.com