General All Purpose Baseball Card Thread

[Edgy MD]

batmagadanleadoff wrote:

Nice scissor work, fellas!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Nice scissor work, fellas!

That picture's from a 1976 Dairylea Photo Album Stadium Giveaway.

[Edgy MD]

1976: When we all looked like sex offenders.

[Edgy MD]

Are you sitting down? Because I hope you're sitting down.

http://paniniamerica.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/bears-necessity-panini-america-to-produce-first-ever-bad-news-bears-trading-cards/#more-51760



At a quick glance, there seem to be two sets --- one with the actors' names only, and one with the actors' names and the characters' names in quotes, with a space for autographs. I'd prefer to have them do it as purely as possible, use only the characters' names and maintain the false reality that these are real players, but gift horse/mouth, you know?

Big kudos on the retro-retro look --- a turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau look filtered through desperate seventies post-Watergate romanticism.

Want to feel your heart beat? Check out this one-shot masterpiece.

[seawolf17]

I'm honestly surprised, with all the celebrity insert type cards, that a BNB insert set hadn't happened yet. (Personally, I'd love a Major League set.)

[batmagadanleadoff]

I wanna see Engleberg's back of the card career stats.

[Edgy MD]

Again, not a little disappointing in that regard.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I don't get what Panini is. Isn't it a kind of italian bread?

Are these real cards or just pictures?

[Edgy MD]

Panini is an Italian comic book/collectible card company with an American arm.

These cards may be wanting information-wise, but as you wrote long ago about the Vespa, sometimes the Italians just can't help but design things that look gorgeous.

[ashie62]

Panini picked up Donruss and Leaf after MLB purged all licenses but Topps brands..Panini cannot used MLB logo and largely relies on retired players and other non union flora.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Panini has a series of cartoon baseball player stickers that are AWFUL.

[Edgy MD]

Panini are big stateside distributors of the Japanese stuff.

[Ceetar]

[seawolf17]

Yep, Panini used the cartoony Triple Play brand to evade the MLB licensing issue, but the cards are awful. They're the official NBA/NHL card licensees; Topps has MLB and the NFL.

[Edgy MD]

This post is what a good day is made of.

Great to see Kash Beauchamp make an appearance. Kash-Money-with-a-K was a big shot when I was growing up, and a rare number one overall pick (but in the old supplemental January draft, I think) who never drank from the golden cup of a major league water cooler.

[Ceetar]

[Zvon]

These have been touched on here. Got a pack last week. Didn't get any Mets I got a Strasburg, gave it to my brother.

For the kid in us older guys this is a great pack to open. There's something about seeing those old card borders that transport you back to a simpler time. And the coolness of seeing todays players within the borders is sweet. I'll be buying more of these.




The Harvey card from that Triple Play set.

[seawolf17]

I'm a huge fan of the Archives set. Won a box on Beckett (including a Ronnie autograph!), and have bought a few packs. Working on finishing off the set and the two "1983" styled insert sets, so if you wind up with any of those that you have no use for, Z, I'm happy to work a trade.

[Edgy MD]

This is my friend Park Slope Dave, apparently still of the stubborn belief that good music needs good cover art.

Identifying Dave's fellow players here, over at 10:00, we have Steve Carlton, the next one clockwise (Tigers #19) is a mystery, Tom Seaver, Hank Aaron, Hank Aaron again, And what I can only guess is Bill Buckner with an N missing from his name. Is that like a famous Topps screwup?

[seawolf17]

That Buckner is odd, because no, that's not an error anywhere that I can find, but he's the only MLBer born 12/14/49. Can't imagine why that'd be Photoshopped, though.

Tiger is Dave Lemanczyk. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lemanda01.shtml

[Edgy MD]

Nice job with Lemanczyk, who I managed against in Pee-Wees when I was a teenager.

[stevejrogers]

Looks like someone is taking Zvon's idea and making some wistful thinking custom cards!

Image is too large, so here is the eBay link...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-Topps-Willie-McCovey-New-York-Mets-/400319223959?hash=item5d34e29897

[Zvon]

SteveJRogers wrote: Looks like someone is taking Zvon's idea and making some wistful thinking custom cards! Image is too large, so here is the eBay link... http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-Topps-Willie-McCovey-New-York-Mets-/400319223959?hash=item5d34e29897

That is very very kool. I don't know that it was my idea. Grimm is the cardman. I don't think anyone here has thought to turn great non-Mets into Mets. I like that. If I made some a those I guess the first one Id pick is Brooks Robinson. Imagine if Brooks was on the Mets in 69-70. *slobberdribblesalavate*

[stevejrogers]

Zvon wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: Looks like someone is taking Zvon's idea and making some wistful thinking custom cards! Image is too large, so here is the eBay link... http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-Topps-Willie-McCovey-New-York-Mets-/400319223959?hash=item5d34e29897 That is very very kool. I don't know that it was my idea. Grimm is the cardman. I don't think anyone here has thought to turn great non-Mets into Mets. I like that. If I made some a those I guess the first one Id pick is Brooks Robinson. Imagine if Brooks was on the Mets in 69-70. *slobberdribblesalavate*

Hmmm...whom am I thinking of then?

A guy here made a custom set of Met history cards based on the 1971 Topps design.

[Zvon]

SteveJRogers wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: Looks like someone is taking Zvon's idea and making some wistful thinking custom cards! Image is too large, so here is the eBay link... http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-Topps-Willie-McCovey-New-York-Mets-/400319223959?hash=item5d34e29897 That is very very kool. I don't know that it was my idea. Grimm is the cardman. I don't think anyone here has thought to turn great non-Mets into Mets. I like that. If I made some a those I guess the first one Id pick is Brooks Robinson. Imagine if Brooks was on the Mets in 69-70. *slobberdribblesalavate* Hmmm...whom am I thinking of then? A guy here made a custom set of Met history cards based on the 1971 Topps design.

Oh, I did that, sorry. Also started a 50th anni set* but never finished it. Those cards were all Mets. That McCovey card is different. He's taking a player who never played for the Mets and making him a Met. I really wish Id a thought of that.
*

[dinosaur jesus]

Maybe you could take some Mets and make them non-Mets. Bonilla's an obvious one.

[Zvon]

^ha, missed that.

My brothers and I had what we call a "pack party" during the ASG. I cleaned up!

My top non Mets:


Metly cards


Had two packs of 2012 Topps Update cards. Got the Harvey rook in the second pack.

[Zvon]

I saw this pic of Tejada and first thing I thought was this would have made a great 73 Topps card. It was just many of those cards had odd but awesome pictures used. So I had to see how it looked. Grimm knows what I'm sayin. It looks kool.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Does anyone know why the border/background on the 1968
Topps' cards is sometimes one way and sometimes another?

[seawolf17]

How do you mean?