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Even though I can't play with the cool kids -- the area where I live doesn't allow it -- I get all giddy watching others find the snazzy stuff. I can't help but hit the few, scattered places that sell cards even though they disappoint me time and again. Hobby shop? Too expensive. Big box store #1? Topps blasters I've seen before. Big box store #2? Loose packs. And some weird-shaped $9.99 boxes of 2007 Topps. Huh? Big box store #3? Topps '09 cereal boxes.
But the cereal boxes are news around here, even if it's a week or two later than everyone else has seen them. So I picked one up. Ted Williams of course. I can't choose Ruth or Mantle over Teddy Ballgame. I'd get disowned. The boxes are pretty cool and I got some cards I needed, but other than continuing my staggering streak of pulling Cal Ripken inserts (all but the Legends card are spoken for), there was nothing special.
In the old days, that would be the end of it. I'd go back to seeing what better things everyone else got.
But not anymore. Thanks to Tribe Cards, I have a big box o' card fun to keep me warm and toasty. In yet another display of amazing card philanthropy, Dave sent me around 600 cards. Just because I asked. That's something else.
Most of what he sent were Dodgers, because that's the greatest team there is. But I also volunteered to be surprised. (I did this while ducking down with my hands covering my head. I've seen all the Sandy Alomars Dave has). And I was quite pleasantly surprised. Lots of great cards from teams that aren't quite as great as the Dodgers.
I'm saving the Dodgers for part 2, but I scanned a few of the other cards to show. These are just a few that interested me. There are many more nice ones that may be subjects of future posts.
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The moment from the '75 World Series is my first memory of a baseball play on television. I don't know if I was up to see the event or if it was a replay shortly after the game, but it's the first time I remember seeing baseball on TV (that wasn't Bugs Bunny anyway).
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This is the one card out of the hundreds that David sent that made my heart jump and made me stop and stare at it, look at the back, and marvel over its greatness for awhile. His stats line for 1970 simply lists 0 games played, 0 at bats, 0 runs, 0 hits, etc. No mention that Flood sat out the entire 1970 season after demanding that he be declared a free agent, kicking off what we know today as an everyday fact of baseball. Instead the back of the card happily declares that he hit .620 in American Legion ball in 1955. Whoopee!
This card is really what it's all about. It really made me feel like one of the cool kids. Hey guys, look what I got! I got a 1971 Curt Flood! Isn't it cool?
Also, one other thing that's cool:
And you'll notice, it's card No. 408. Hmmmmm.
Comments
There is nothing cool about that card or that moment. It should all be forgotten.
How about El Perfecto against the Dodgers, Sept 16, 1988?
I hope you right this wrong in the name of Tom Browning soon.
As a Dodger fan, I think even mentioning Browning is pretty big of me. ;)
But yeah, Browning had a perfect game that year. And the Dodgers won the World Series.