All-purpose baseball card thread (part ll?)

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm always happy to find shifty-eyed blue-hatted photos.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

="seawolf17"]LOVE the '06 mlb.com fantasy preview graphics. Old skool, baby.

I like those, too, but to me, this is old school:

[RealityChuck]

I started collecting seriously in 1961 and kept at it until 1994. Best thing is that I have them all.

Tom Seaver's rookie card, for instance, showing Tom and the immortal Bill Dennehy*. Paid about 1 cent for it.

I've got a couple of Mets from 1962. No hats, of course.

Alas, it's no fun anymore. A baseball card shouldn't be glossy on the back, and having to keep some in a safe deposit box really takes the joy out of it.

We did flip cards -- you just called odd or even. Two head or two tails = even. But no one thought they were valuable. Best example:

You would often have special rookie cards that had two players from different teams. At the time, my brother kept his cards organized by team. So for these, he'd split the card -- peel the front from the back, then cut the card in half and paste it to card stock. So you would have the player's picture on one side of the card stock, and his stats on the other.

I have a Rod Carew rookie card that was treated this way. (Luckily, I also have an intact version.)

*Best known for being traded to Washington so Gil Hodges could manage the Mets.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow. Sometimes you wondered if they deliberately put out those combined cards just to make little kids go nuts trying to come up with an organizational logic.

[seawolf17]

Wouldn't it be cool to be Bill Denehy, or Bob Bonner (one of the "other guys" on Cal Ripken's rookie card), or Ken McMullen (Pete Rose), or John Hilton (between Ron Cey and Mike Schmidt)? Not only did you get to be a professional ballplayer, but you can brag that your rookie card sells for a couple hundred bucks.

[seawolf17]

edit: double post

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

[metsmarathon]

am i alone in thinking that reads as "mnets"?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Now do Victor Zambrano on a 1974 Topps.

[Zvon]

="seawolf17"]LOVE the '06 mlb.com fantasy preview graphics. Old skool, baby.

LOVED THAT PREVIEW!
I went and screen grabbed every Met in that set seawolf.

Did you see the Piazza?
Met picture but Padres border.


And Lo Duca, Marlins pic and Met border.
Jacobs still pictured as a Met.
I always loved stuff like that(opposed to how they used to poorly draw the new hat on the player).
They had two versions of Nady, one OF and one 1B (maybe the only player done up so) and a card for Milledge.

I never realized how much I really liked that '85 design until I saw that preview thing. At the time I found the '85 Fleer set to be superior in design and focused on collecting that one. But the '85 Topps, its simplicity and the inclusion of the team logo.......it was a great pure baseball card, looking back.
It brought back memories.

Yancy...are there more Met cards available from the 2 types youve posted?

[Zvon]

One of the pride and joys of my remaining collection isnt even a player card.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Zvon wrote: Yancy...are there more Met cards available from the 2 types youve posted?

Not sure what you mean.

[seawolf17]

I do enjoy how Topps brings back the old designs. They did a few "archives" sets, where they reprinted older cards. Then there's the "Fan Favorites" sets, where they use old designs, with old photos, for new cards:



The last few years, they've released "Heritage" sets, with '50s-era designs for current players:



This is the '05 Bowman Heritage, which mirrors the '51 Bowman set.

[Zvon]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: ="Zvon"]Yancy...are there more Met cards available from the 2 types youve posted? Not sure what you mean.

I mean whered ya get em?
What are the from?
Are there more?
I collect Met images.
If theres more just steer me in the right direction. <^>

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I Photoshopped them this afternoon.

[Zvon]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I Photoshopped them this afternoon.

no shit.
GREAT WORK!

[Zvon]

Those years were 3 of my PRIMO collecting years.
I loved those cards.

Ill never forget the 1st time i saw an IN ACTION card in the '72 set. I was like KOOL!
(I think the '71 set was the 1st to use some action shots for player cards)

This is a photoshopped one, but they looked just like this:

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

More fun with Photoshop:

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Greeat work.

Now show me Cliff Floyd on one of those hideous 1975 Topps cards (the ones with dual-colored borders)

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Excellent. Now a challenge: Get me a current Met on a 1974 horizontal.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

This is great.

Carlos Beltran: 1977 Topps

1976 Topps: Heath Bell

1970 Topps had the guy's name in script and the team name floating on top of the image. Your challenge: Steve Trachsel.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Seventy five was awful. Like hideous paneling on a basement re-finished in 1973.

[seawolf17]

But '75 had two great rookie cards:



I'd include Jim Rice and make it a trio, but he's a personal fave and not Met-related.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not a whole lot of Dutch boy cuts on big-league baseball cards. Nice job, Tom Veryzer.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

[seawolf17]

Bob Sheldon is a member of the Bill Denehy Club also:

Garner -- 16 seasons, .260 (plus 11+ seasons as a manager)
Hernandez -- 17 seasons, .296
Veryzer -- 12 seasons, .241
Sheldon -- 3 seasons, .256 (in 262 total AB), 0 HR, 17 RBI, 0 SB, 4 CS

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm gonna pass on Heath Bell, at least for now. Thanks for the challenges, Johnny, I enjoyed meeting them.

Amazingly, my PC has the exact font that was used for the script on those 1970 cards. (I matched it up with Don Cardwell's card and it was a perfect match.) The font is called Kaufmann, for any would-be 1970 Photoshoppers out there.