What's your favorite Topps Mets card?

[ashie62]

A couple of 2004 Topps Finest Moments refractor Autographs of our namesake and nails.

[batmagadanleadoff]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: No. 7, 1968 Jerry Koosman http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RJnZXOek6bo/TQbxbmZcYnI/AAAAAAAAE58/TWilPRez6Ok/s1600/68%2BKoosman%2BRyan.jpg It�s a remarkable rookie card to be sure.

Did your wife throw out all of your baseball cards in the last 30 days?

[G-Fafif]

Why, that rascal's been updating the countdown on his blog!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Well, we have Doc Gooden at No. 6:



Jose Reyes at No. 5:



Willie Mays at No. 4:



Mookie Wilson at No. 3:



Any guesses or suggestions for the final two?

[batmagadanleadoff]

I know the answer(s) because you've probably written at least ten posts over the years telling us what your all-time favorite Topps Mets card is. The guy on your #1 card is smiling even wider than '85 Mookie.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Unless I missed it and you already counted it, number two's got to be sassy-hipped Rusty scoffing at the pitches from the on-deck circle.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Well, we have Doc Gooden at No. 6:

took about 5 seconds to find this game. But where is the scorecard?

http://ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=4542

[Benjamin Grimm]

That feature's not "live" yet.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's quite the Metly Dodger squad.

Hubie sure stunk up the joint that day.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mackey had hisself a day, though.

Speaking of which... no Mackey Sasser cards in there, MGiM? He always made good board.

[Benjamin Grimm]

So it looks like that was a bases-loaded triple for Doc in the third inning. Looks like that photo is of him rounding first (correct?) but if so, the scoreboard has already tallied all three runs.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Doc rounding first would place the old foul territory corner oufield Shea bricks in centerfield.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Actually, if that was first base, then the outfield bricks would be closer to home plate, which is clearly wrong. So that must be third base. (Which would explain why the runs were already on the scoreboard.) But knowing that it's third base, it looks like Gooden had thoughts of going for four.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Suggested minor scorecard tweaks:

[list:3vu7gb7l][*:3vu7gb7l]Putting new pitchers at the top of the box for their first batter is golden, but probably is redundant and un-necessary for the first pitcher.[/*:m:3vu7gb7l]
[*:3vu7gb7l]You might want to align those pitchers center instead of left.[/*:m:3vu7gb7l]
[*:3vu7gb7l]You might also want to include the records for the pitchers of record as well as the savior.[/*:m:3vu7gb7l]
[*:3vu7gb7l]Can the number of a homerun appear beneath HR in parentheses?[/*:m:3vu7gb7l]
[*:3vu7gb7l]Can you include dots or hashmarks symbolizing the number of RBIs a player got in a plate appearance.[/*:m:3vu7gb7l][/list:u:3vu7gb7l]

None of which is mant to suggest that those cards represent anything less than the glorious fulfillment of you asking what you can do for your country.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Some of that is more easily done than others. (Centering text is actually much tougher than you'd guess.)

I can do the season totals stuff (win-loss, homers, etc.) for Mets players but not for opponents.

The one thing I still want to do before I go live is have the ink color change when there's a pinch runner. I can do that, I just haven't yet found the time.

There are other flaws that I know of. Sometimes a player gets a play of 5-0-0-0-0 on the basepaths. I haven't figured that one out yet. But I'm not going to wait until it's perfect before I reveal it to the world. I don't think I'll live long enough to iron out all the quirks.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Not only was I at that Doc game, it was the last time I saw them win in person until 2008! The infamous streak of shame.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Edgy DC wrote: Unless I missed it and you already counted it, number two's got to be sassy-hipped Rusty scoffing at the pitches from the on-deck circle.

Alas, this Rusty was No. 28.

In hindsight, there are a couple great cards that I was holding off on to get them into the top 10, and when I got around to actually counting them, well, there were more than 10. I expect to get pounded on for a couple omissions.

Perplexed by BatMad's guess.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The 1970 World Champs team card is my guess for #2.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

batmagadanleadoff is, of course, correct that the 1970 team card is No. 2 in the Topps countdown.

I posted the whole postseason subset, and I'm having trouble identifying some of the players:



OK, from the right, I see we have Wayne Garrett, Nolan Ryan, Tommie Agee and ... is that Tug? Any guesses?

Then, on the Mets Whoop it Up card, I see:



Kranepool, Tug and Ed Charles, but who is the guy hamming it up in the foreground? Swoboda? I was thinking Grote, but he doesn't seem like a giddy kind of guy.

Note, in the background, the all-too-serious reporters interviewing some off-camera Met.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's Tug on the right.

And I guess, Nolie's got the only Mets nipple in Topps history.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/01/topps-countdown-at-no-2-with-1970-card.html

Here's the blog link to the rest of the playoffs and World Series cards.

Any guesses on what will be Topps card No. 1 of all-time?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I see you got a link from Matt Cerrone on MetsBlog.

[seawolf17]

Yay! 2011 Topps is out!

Bad: Fourth and fifth cards out of my first pack, back to back: Jeter and A-Rod.
Bad: Only two Mets.
Good: The two Mets were:

http://twitpic.com/3v941n

Back of the Mets team card features four "season highlights." Quiz time.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

The Dickey and Niese one-hitters?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

And the No. 1 Topps card of all time? Was there any doubt?

http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/02/its-true-tom-teriffic-atop-topps-top-60.html





And the contenders:

















Note the autograph!









I love this card!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I wonder if Seaver still has his Topps All-Star Rookie trophy. I wonder if Topps even gave them out.

I also like that they capitalized Homered.

[bmfc1]

I bought a 36-pack of the new Topps set. Very nice, even though I didn't get any Mets and got 4 MFPs.

[seawolf17]

Get any of the sparkly inserts? I'm thinking about working on that set.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Where does one buy baseball cards these days?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Target has them. Walmart, usually. Meijer out here, which is like if you merged the best Target and the best food store into one giant store. They are one of the best things about the Midwest.

Anyway, I bought a couple packs. I'm underwhelmed. The foil makes the cards nearly impossible to read. I did pull RA Dickey, and one of those sparkly cards.