There are a lot of baseball card poses that were common on cards when I was collecting as a youngster that have mostly disappeared from cardboard. One of them is the pitcher's "hands-over-head" wind-up pose. This pose used to appear on dozens of cards every year but it's been a long time since I've seen it in a current set. Maybe a one-off here and there. Pitchers mostly have scrapped the long, drawn-out wind-up and did so beginning with the 1970s, or so I'm told. But I just reviewed a small sampling of game footage from the 1970s and here are the pitchers that were using that wind-up in the videos I watched: Bruce Kison, Jerry Garvin, Steve Baker, Vida Blue, Jerry Koosman, Rudy May, Andy Hassler, Bob Knepper, Don Sutton, Dickie Noles, Jim Bibby, Eddie Solomon, Jim Rooker, Mike Cuellar, Don Robinson. Here are the ones who weren't: J.R. Richard, Jim Merritt, Steve Rogers. So it was still prevalent in the 1970s. Today it's still used...
Does it seem like finding the baseball cards you want is like finding a mate these days? It does for me. Oh sure, I can find cards that I like and add them fairly easily. But the ones I really, really want seem more and more elusive. Is it because everyone else wants them, too? Is it like when everyone wanted to go out with that one girl? It feels like that. I've all but given up on the 1975 Kellogg's girl (or the earlier '70s Kellogg's sets for that matter). They're playing way too hard to get. Higher prices and you can't even be sure that the card is going to come without flaws. I'm still in hot pursuit of 1975 Hostess though. It's gotten more and more challenging. I just landed this Roger Metzger short-print and purchased another SP just today. But there are 10 cards to go after that and most are SPs. Did you know there's some guy selling the Bill Buckner card for $200??? You're not worth that, honey. I'm trying to guess whi...