What Joe Carter was to the '90s ...
And Carlton Fisk was to the '70s ...
And Bill Mazeroski was to the '60s ...
Kirk Gibson was to the '80s.
Happy 24th anniversary to Gibson's one-legged home run, THE epic blast of my generation.
You may be a Diamondback now, but I still like ya.
(I really need to get more versions of this card, and there's no time like an anniversary date to load up the COMC cart. ... Now if I could only tell the difference between the "windsor green" and the "green linen").
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Lovin' the rainbow of Gibbys. How many colors are there?
I'm not entirely sure. I know there are at least four others. Probably more.
Printing Plates: one set per color
Artist's Proof: one set
Black Linen: 99 sets
Blue Steel: 50 sets
Bronze: one set
Celestial Blue: one set
Deep Blue: 75 sets
Green Linen: ? sets
Hades: 50 sets
Persian Blue Linen: one set
Pinot Red: 75 sets
Red Linen: one set
Rusted: 50 sets
Black: 99 sets
Urban Gray: one set
From the ever so useful 2009 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards.
But then, you would have needed another color of Gibson.
And if by "tragic" you mean "glorious," then we agree again!