General All Purpose Baseball Card Thread

[Ceetar]

Stupidest face in the majors looks shocked he hit it. Is Parmalee bowling?


Isn't it a waste of time to give Willis a card? Why is Latos' so much smaller?


Here's Ryan

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: metsguyinmichigan wrote: Rack packs now are $500 with only 36 cards. So each card costs only $13.89? That's a bargain, even though it doesn't come with a stick of gum! At BJ's and Costco, it's $700. But on the plus side, they're gigantic cards.

Sorry, guys. Yes, it's $5. But I did hear that Panini is releasing a mega-high-end set this year with a pack price of more than $100. That's just crazy.

[stevejrogers]

The late Gary Carter's regular Metly Topps cards

[stevejrogers]

Jason of Faith & Fear said on my posting of that collage on Facebook that it did help tell the arc of Carter's Met career in a way. Specifically his 1990 card.

[Edgy MD]

Jeff Gardner, misrepresented twice on baseball cards.

For a guy with a 186-game career, that's a monumental screwing of his legacy.

[stevejrogers]

After the doing the Carter collage, I thought it'd be fun to do the same with other members of the Mets Hall of Fame. Using only regular Topps Base Set and Trading cards done during their careers (no Turn Back The Clocks, Record Breakers, All Stars, Highlights, Leaders, etc)

[stevejrogers]

1986ers, represent

[stevejrogers]

Finally, the latest inductee:

[stevejrogers]

Still waiting for some Hodges and Stengel cards to show up...

BTW, it is interesting that there is a member of the Mets Hall of Fame in every Topps Base Set through 2003. Of course Franco and Kranepool (Has a mixed team rookie card in 1963, which means Met record 18 total regular base set appearances) are mostly the culprits for that factoid. And hopefully there will be a few 1998-2001 Mets, as well as a couple from 2006 in future Met HOF inductions.

[Edgy MD]

The second and third Kranepool cards have to be two shots from the same reel, no?

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: The second and third Kranepool cards have to be two shots from the same reel, no?

They look like the same picture cropped differently to me.

[Edgy MD]

I thought maybe, but the angle is a little different. There's an aisle in the stands in one, that is revealed between his hands and body. In the other, the aisle disappears behind his body. The same whiteshirt guy seems to be on the concourse, though.

A lot of them look like they were taken moments apart (Gooden #s 1 and 4, for instance). I half wonder if all the Strawberrys were from the same day, same at-bat, and they just had an artist come in and change the color of his wristbands to suggest they weren't.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Cool stuff, Steve. Krane has a rookie card in the 1962 and 1963 sets, I believe.

[stevejrogers]

Sorry Met Guy, Eddie's cardboard debut was in 1963, as I said in this multi-team rookie card, that also includes Tony Oliva's first card:



Also not represented...yet anyway, is Tug's debut which for some reason was quite high in price for my taste at this time when I went digging for some of the other 1960s cards recently, probably was in one of the high number series of that year:



And of course this white whale of my collecting career, FWIW, this is just an example of card abuse:

[stevejrogers]

Also stuff like this, which I do own, should not count, even though yes it's part of the base set!

2010 Short Print special. I believe it replaces a checklist card:


Or this, which interestingly enough is listed just under "New York Mets" in Beckett's guide, no mention of Tom Seaver, despite probably picturing him due to the whole "Franchise" bit:

[G-Fafif]

MetFairy and I visited a small, elegant exhibition of baseball cards at the Met (as opposed to the Mets) yesterday. The theme was the players who broke the color barrier. You've seen pictures, probably, of cards from that era (late '40s Bowman, early '50s Topps), but to see them up close, even behind glass, was incredibly moving. I'll let the Fairy post her pics if she's so inclined, but it's worth the trip if you're in the neighborhood. Exhibition runs to mid-June.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The pictures used on Kranepool's Topps '64 and '65 cards were shot in 1964, Krane's last season in uniform #21, and Krane's only season at Shea in that uni #. The #1 digit is partially visible in the pics. Topps didn't bother to use a '65 photo of Krane, or perhaps, not even photograph Krane in '65, for his '66 card.

Here's a 2004 Kranepool card (2004 Topps Finest Moments - Autographs), using yet another shot from that same '64 photo session.



Below is a Topps negative, also from Krane's '64 photo shoot. It appears to be the pic used in Krane's 2004 card, just above.

[Guest themetfairy]

G-Fafif wrote: MetFairy and I visited a small, elegant exhibition of baseball cards at the Met (as opposed to the Mets) yesterday. The theme was the players who broke the color barrier. You've seen pictures, probably, of cards from that era (late '40s Bowman, early '50s Topps), but to see them up close, even behind glass, was incredibly moving. I'll let the Fairy post her pics if she's so inclined, but it's worth the trip if you're in the neighborhood. Exhibition runs to mid-June.

My favorite picture, by far, is this one-



It was indeed cool to see these cards up close. Thanks G-Fafif for letting me know about it and bringing me along on the pilgrimage!

[stevejrogers]

Casey Stengel, now talk about using photos from the same photo reel with the last two!

[Edgy MD]

I totally want to get into the baseball card business.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe you can also look into selling beepers. Or buying an ice wagon.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Edgy DC wrote: I totally want to get into the baseball card business.

I'm hoping you mean the designing end and not the dealing end. Not too many dealers left.

[Edgy MD]

Oh, dear, yes. Dealing would be the seventh level of hell for me. More power to you, Ashie, but it's not for me.

I'd like my company to be about truth in advertising, though. I'd want CPF Cardboard to make sure that there's a photographer to capture a guy the very day he is added to the roster. I'd want to make sure the number of cards run on him is exactly proportional to his days on the roster. So the set would evolve as the season did. Production would start on opening day and presumably hit stores within the week, and close a few weeks after the World Series, with the design and production rolling out even as the action unfolds. Not photoshop jobbies for us.

[stevejrogers]

And finally, Gil Hodges

[Ceetar]

the cards come with a chance for this Golden Giveaway thing. No purchase necessary, can mail in an index card, normal stuff..but can anyone tell me why Canadians have to answer a math question to enter via this method?

literally: "Potential Canadian winners will be required to first correctly answer the mathematical skill-testing question. Include on a 3x5 card the answer to the following skill-test question: 4X4+4-11 = ?"

[G-Fafif]

Reminder: Great exhibition at the Met runs through June 17.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Ceetar wrote: the cards come with a chance for this Golden Giveaway thing. No purchase necessary, can mail in an index card, normal stuff..but can anyone tell me why Canadians have to answer a math question to enter via this method? literally: "Potential Canadian winners will be required to first correctly answer the mathematical skill-testing question. Include on a 3x5 card the answer to the following skill-test question: 4X4+4-11 = ?"

If I remember correctly, games of chance are or were prohibited in Canada, so they had to make it a game of knowledge or skill.

[batmagadanleadoff]

2012: Meet 1963.

[batmagadanleadoff]

2012: Meet 1963.

And the Mets get screwed again. The leader is supposed to occupy the center diamond. Topps put Reyes in the runner-up slot.

[Edgy MD]

Strange stuff.

And with all that space, they can't print the three-digit batting average?

I realize that's an issue with the original set they aped, and not with this one, but the layout sort of leaves the actual order so unclear that they confused even the layout artist.



Funny to see Musial and White wearing different hats.