Baseball Card Thread, Relaunched

[seawolf17]

I figured I'd repost this here so it doesn't get lost in the "first" thread, and so we can save it for posterity.

My first major league game, and all the participants therein, in autographed baseball card form.

[Guest Edgy DC]

So my questions about that awesome board.

Why is Hubie coming after the pitcher, when he was a starting player and you seem to be laying out the players with deference to the starring lineup?

Why is Kingman (and maybe Youngboold) depicted in non-Metly state?

[seawolf17]

So my questions about that awesome board.

Why is Hubie coming after the pitcher, when he was a starting player and you seem to be laying out the players with deference to the starring lineup?

Why is Kingman (and maybe Youngboold) depicted in non-Metly state?[/quote:1te4o5cj]
Thanks for reposting the q's.

I don't know why Hubie and Youngblood are out of order. I'll switch them tonight. You're right about the lineup thing, though.

There are a few wrong-teamed players. Ken Oberkfell is a Giant, Tom Herr is a Phillie, Neil Allen is a Cardinal (he was a Met then), and Kingman's a Cub. Youngblood's correct. I don't think Kingman has a certified Mets card autographed, and the other three I picked up online. I sent a Mets card to Neil Allen c/o his team this summer, but never got it back from him.

I'll probably re-send to Herr this summer, and maybe Obie will sign with Buffalo this year. We might go up there this summer, so I'll try to get him to sign in person.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm impressed with the orange paint

[G-Fafif]

Holy fuck, you've got the umpire's card in there. Jesus fucking Alou, that thing is beautiful.

[Guest themetfairy]

Nice memento wolf!

[seawolf17]

The orange paint actually came with the house, which was nice.

A few more of my autograph frames:

Recent Mets:


1986/1988 Mets:


Old School Mets:


What do these guys have in common?

[soupcan]

What do these guys have in common?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Some Greco-American blood in each of them.

[G-Fafif]

None of them have ever been in my kitchen.[/quote:v5car4du]

Cheers!

[seawolf17]

Ha! No, it's way more obscure than that. We all (all of them and I) share a birthday.

[G-Fafif]

Seawolf's June 12, 1982 handiwork inspires a post from my partner here.

[seawolf17]

Sweet.

Can you link my blog in there? (http://sbuchris.blogspot.com) I posted about Jason's post this morning.

[G-Fafif]

Link added. You mind if we run the picture itself?

[seawolf17]

Let me host it somewhere else, not in my personal photobucket. I'll re-post the link.

[seawolf17]

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1596/199/116/672155021/n672155021_5092687_484.jpg

[Benjamin Grimm]

I like how he mentioned that he'd never be able to find an Anna Benson card.

The thing is... he's wrong!

http://leaptoad.com/mets/jpeg/AnnaBenson1973.jpg

[metirish]

Seawolf's June 12, 1982 handiwork inspires a post from my partner here.

[G-Fafif]

Frame is pictured here. Same one as in this thread, actually.

[seawolf17]

Frame is pictured here. Same one as in this thread, actually.

[G-Fafif]

I like how he mentioned that he'd never be able to find an Anna Benson card.

The thing is... he's wrong!

http://leaptoad.com/mets/jpeg/AnnaBenson1973.jpg[/quote:34rikxr9]

I'll alert Jason. And he though he had every Mets card.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Old School Mets:

[seawolf17]

Neat stuff, seawolf. From what set is your Frank Thomas card? I've seen that Thomas image before, but never that card.[/quote:m3ypagcl]
Frank Thomas visited the Pool (last summer?) and took some questions from us, and his publicist offered to send autographed cards to us that they had custom made.

[seawolf17]

Reached 300 autographed Mets cards with today's mail (Sam Perlozzo and Joe Vitko, who had the honor of being #300).

Some stats, from Agee to Zachry:

1962 Mets: 12 (Anderson, Cisco, Craig, Herrscher, Hickman, Hook, Hunter, Jackson, Kranepool, MacKenzie, Pignatano, Thomas)
1969 Mets: 18 (Agee, Boswell, Charles, Garrett, Gaspar, Grote, Harrelson, Jackson, Jones, Kranepool, Martin, McGraw, Ryan, Seaver, Shamsky, Swoboda, Taylor, Weis)
1986 Mets: 36 (Anderson, Backman, Berenyi, Carter, Cashen, Darling, Dykstra, Elster, Fernandez, Foster, Gibbons, Gooden, Harrelson, Hearn, Heep, Hernandez, Horwitz, Davey Johnson, HoJo, Kiner, Knight, Leach, Lyons, Magadan, Mazzilli, McDowell, Mitchell, Niemann, Orosco, Pavlick, Bill Robinson, Santana, Stottlemyre, Straw, Teufel, Mookie)
Non-Met Mets: 9 (Matthew Broderick, the late Brian Cole, Ralph Kiner, Gary Cohen, minor leaguers Yusmeiro Petit & Curtis Pride, WFAN's Steve Somers and Ed Coleman, Gov. David Paterson)
Not Yet Mets: 10 (Tim Redding, Fartinez, Ike Davis, Scott Moviel, Cory Sullivan, Shawn Bowman, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Dillon Gee, Josh Thole, Nick Abel)
Non-players: 10 (Davey, Oberkfell, Robinson, Stottlemyre, Frazier, Herzog, Howard, Manuel, Cashen, Perlozzo)
Incoming: 8 (Acevedo, Ambres, Blocker, Duncan, Dyer, Kroll, Marrero, Schaffer)
Gone: 7 (Agee, Cole, McGraw, Milner, Bill Robinson, Dock Ellis, Sturdivant)
Longest Alphabetical Run: 5 (Franco-Franco-Franco-Frazier-Fregosi)
Largest Alphabetical Gap: 16 (Melvin Mora to Xavier Nady)
Alomars: 0/3
Castillos: 1/4 (Luis)
Ernandezes: 3/9 (Keith H, Sid F, Anderson H)
Francos: 3/3 (John, Matt, Julio)
Johnsons: 2/7 (Davey, HoJo)
Joneses: 4/8 (Bobby, Chris, Cleon, Randy)
Millers: 2/5 (Dyar, Keith)
Smiths: 2/5 (Joe, Dick)

Living CPF Top 100 Mets I'm missing: 38 Ojeda, 52 Gentry, 57 McAndrew, 64 Hunt, 65 Fisher, 68 Myers, 69 Lynch, 73 Aguilera, 81 Viola, 85 Murray, 86 Falcone, 87 Sisk, 92 Flynn, 94 Lance Johnson, 98 Zeile

[Guest Edgy DC]

You've got to get yourself a Vern Hoscheit if your 1986 is going to be complete.

[G-Fafif]

What do non-Mets Mets who don't have their own cards sign? Or is there an Upper Deck Ed Coleman set I'm not aware of?

[seawolf17]

For both the non-Mets and the not-yet-Mets, I made custom cards, some with the Shea logo, some -- for those future Mets who will have no Shea connection -- without. I'll scan some tonight if I remember.

[seawolf17]

Tom Heise becomes #371 today.

1962 Mets: 13 (Anderson, Bouchee, Cisco, Craig, Herrscher, Hickman, Hook, Hunter, Jackson, Kranepool, MacKenzie, Pignatano, Thomas)
1969 Mets: 22 (Agee, Boswell, Charles, Dyer, Garrett, Gaspar, Grote, Harrelson, Heise, Jackson, Jones, Koosman, Kranepool, Martin, McGraw, Pfeil, Ryan, Seaver, Shamsky, Swoboda, Taylor, Weis)
1986 Mets: 36 (Anderson, Backman, Berenyi, Carter, Cashen, Darling, Dykstra, Elster, Fernandez, Foster, Gibbons, Gooden, Harrelson, Hearn, Heep, Hernandez, Horwitz, Davey Johnson, HoJo, Kiner, Knight, Leach, Lyons, Magadan, Mazzilli, McDowell, Mitchell, Niemann, Orosco, Pavlick, Bill Robinson, Santana, Stottlemyre, Straw, Teufel, Mookie)
Non-Met Mets: 12 (Matthew Broderick, the late Brian Cole, Ralph Kiner, Gary Cohen, minor leaguers Yusmeiro Petit, Nick Abel, & Curtis Pride, WFAN's Steve Somers and Ed Coleman, Gov. David Paterson, Jay Horwitz, 1986 WS Broadcaster Vin Scully)
Not Yet Mets: 11 (Ike Davis, Scott Moviel, Cory Sullivan, Shawn Bowman, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Dillon Gee, Josh Thole, Brad Holt, Tobi Stoner, Andy Green, Ruben Tejada)
Non-players: 13 (Davey, Oberkfell, Robinson, Stottlemyre, Frazier, Herzog, Howard, Manuel, Cashen, Perlozzo, Baylor, Hough, Pavlick)
Incoming: 9 (Brazell, Jason Anderson, Cangelosi, Figueroa, Templeton, Lima, Rigo Beltran, Daubach, Valdez)
Gone: 8 (Agee, Cole, McGraw, Milner, Bill Robinson, Dock Ellis, Sturdivant, Spahn)
Longest Alphabetical Run: 6 (Alexander-Alfonzo-Allen-Allensworth-Almon-Almonte, Franco x3-Frazier-Fregosi-Friend, Pena-Perez x3-Perlozzo-Person, Snead-Snider-Soler-Somers-Sosa-Spahn) Notes: The addition of Jason Anderson makes another run of 6 as well, and finding a Pete Smith or Roberto Petagine auto would make a run of nine.
Largest Alphabetical Gap: 15 (Tom Gorman to Jeremy Griffiths)
Alomars: 0/3
Andersons: 3/4 (Craig, Marlon, Rick)
Bells: 1/4 (Jay)
Castillos: 1/4 (Luis)
Clarks: 3/3 (Brady, Mark, Tony)
Ernandezes: 3/9 (Keith H, Sid F, Anderson H)
Francos: 3/3 (John, Matt, Julio)
Green(e)s: 0/5
Jacksons: 1/3 (Al)
Johnsons: 3/7 (Ben, Davey, HoJo)
Joneses: 4/8 (Bobby, Chris, Cleon, Randy)
Martinezes: 2/5 (Fernando, Pedro the younger)
Millers: 2/5 (Dyar, Keith)
Murrays: 0/3
Perezes: 3/3 (Oliver, Timo, Yorkis)
Phillips: 1/4 (Jason)
Reeds: 4/4 (Darren, Jeremy, Rick, Steve)
Smiths: 2/5 (Joe, Dick)
Taylors: 2/5 (Chuck, Ron)
Valent(in)(e)s: 3/5 (Eric Valent, Jose Valentin, Bobby V)
Walkers: 0/3
Wilsons: 4/5 (Mookie, Paul, Preston, Vance)

Living CPF Top 100 Mets I'm missing: 38 Ojeda, 52 Gentry, 57 McAndrew, 64 Hunt, 65 Fisher, 68 Myers, 69 Lynch, 73 Aguilera, 81 Viola, 85 Eddie Murray, 86 Falcone, 87 Sisk, 92 Flynn, 94 Lance Johnson, 98 Zeile

[metirish]

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[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm even further removed from baseball cards than I am from comic books. Much further removed.

Maybe Disney should buy Topps.