What's your favorite Topps Mets card?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Back of the card:

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I realize there is a chance that I'm beating this topic right into the ground, but I wanted to acknowledge some of the cool non-Topps Mets. Part one... http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/03/wait-companies-other-than-topps-made.html

[DocTee]

That Strawberry card is heartbreaking. To see that confidence, and that smile, and yet know how it ends. ugh.

[G-Fafif]

I wanna know what Ken Griffey, Jr., says about Tom Seaver. "I was tearing around the Reds clubhouse when I was nine and Seaver gave me such a look because I interrupted his concentration on the Cincinnati Enquirer crossword -- which only took him three minutes anyway"?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Topps 2011 Heritage Set (1962 style) is coming. Here's a preview of some Mets, photgraphed close-up and hatless, just like most of the Mets appearing in the '62 set:

[G-Fafif]

Shouldn't some of them be indicating sleeveless Red or Pirate jerseys?

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Also, I don't think the conditioner Dickey uses was invented in 1962. But they're awesome, I may try to get my hands on some.

[Willets Point]

Pelfrey looks like he could be a GI in WWII. Just photoshop a helmet on his head.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Look how they all still have welts from their hatbands.

[G-Fafif]

George Weiss just ordered haircuts and shaves for the lot of them.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Willets Point wrote: Pelfrey looks like he could be a GI in WWII. Just photoshop a helmet on his head.

Pelf and Thole both look straight off of a recruiting poster.

If that hippie Davis would square his burns off like a real man, you'd have three. Dickey... well... let's just say that he seems like he'd be more comfortable in a turtleneck, listening to jungle music in some Greenwich Village basement, junior.

[seawolf17]

I did a quick checklist analysis in the old baseball card thread when the set was first announced over the winter; most of the Mets in this year's set have corresponding card numbers with their Mets counterparts in the 1962 set. Cannizzaro and Thole are both card #26, Stengel and Collins are both #29, etc. Classy but subtle move by Topps.

[seawolf17]

Minor issue: their "flashback" insert card celebrating the 1962 Mets has a b/w photo of Shea.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Minor issue: their "flashback" insert card celebrating the 1962 Mets has a b/w photo of Shea.

That's because the stadium was featured on the cover of the Mets 1962 scorecard -- the subject of the Mets 2011 Topps Heritage insert card. In 1962, The Mets were targeting 1963 as the grand opening date for Shea Stadium (Flushing Meadows Stadium then).

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That Collins card looks like a photoshop job. Something's off on the jersey. It Topps was truly retro, they'd recreate the crappy paintjobs of the past.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That Collins card looks like a photoshop job. Something's off on the jersey

I'm not convinced that's the current pinstripe jersey.

[ashie62]

Mail in 36 Topps Chrome Wrappers and you get a redemption Refractor Rookie serial number to 599 like this..

[Guest Edgy DC]

Got to give them some degree of credit for not photoshopping fans into the first two rows.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

We've seen the BEST Mets cards, now here are the WORST!

Reasons why these suck are in the blog:

http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/03/youve-seen-best-now-look-at-worst-mets.html

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[seawolf17]

Clark was eaten by a dragon in 1995.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Some of these later cards are so stylized that they seem... masturbatory.

[Willets Point]

I remember that time that Mark Clark pitched a five-hit shutout while a fire-breathing dragon attacked the mound. He was never the same afterward, what with the third-degree burns on his pitching arm.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jim Beauchamp was a neighbor of ours in 1972, and, well, this is how we remember him.

[seawolf17]

Looks like Capuano, Emaus, Nickeas, Beato, and Young all will make their Mets Topps debut in Series 2 this summer.