General All Purpose Baseball Card Thread

Benjamin Grimm · March 7, 2014

Thanks Michigan, Steve, and Zvon. I've passed your responses on to the person who wrote to me.

G-Fafif · March 7, 2014

Get to know Zvon!

batmagadanleadoff · March 7, 2014

Brilliant!

The Topps Cards

The Fantazy Card.

Zvon · March 7, 2014

Ha, thanks Bats.

That was so kool those guys did that. James Preller seems like a very kool nice guy. I also said that the CPF was a great place to hang and watch a game with other fans but that wasn't included. Well, he couldn't keep everything in cause I was goin on and on and on like I do. ha.

I'm particularly proud of this most recent card. This one really should have been.

Frayed Knot · March 7, 2014

That was so kool those guys did that. James Preller seems like a very kool nice guy. I also said that the CPF was a great place to hang and watch a game with other fans but that wasn't included.

Yeah it was:
I shared these digital cards with my on-line Met friends at the �Crane Pool Forum� [link included] and they liked them. Great small group of Mets fans there.

Zvon · March 7, 2014

That was so kool those guys did that. James Preller seems like a very kool nice guy. I also said that the CPF was a great place to hang and watch a game with other fans but that wasn't included.

Yeah it was:
I shared these digital cards with my on-line Met friends at the �Crane Pool Forum� [link included] and they liked them. Great small group of Mets fans there.

I went on to say great place to hang and watch a game. Basically I wouldn't shut up, lol.

To me that was the most important part, to try and get more in here to enjoy the IGTs. But he couldn't know that.

Frayed Knot · March 7, 2014

Hey, it's positive publicity and it'll be picked up by at least a few peeps who have no idea of our existence so it's nothing to sneeze at.

stevejrogers · March 7, 2014

Zvon wrote:

Not to be too much of a "That Guy" but every place I've seen listing Met coaches list Robinson's nickname "Sheriff" and not his first name, including the 1972 Yearbook's roster page.

Zvon · March 7, 2014

SteveJRogers wrote:

Zvon wrote:

Not to be too much of a "That Guy" but every place I've seen listing Met coaches list Robinson's nickname "Sheriff" and not his first name, including the 1972 Yearbook's roster page.

I'll never pass up on using the name Warren when possible. There aren't enough of us around.

Zvon · March 7, 2014

Frayed Knot wrote:
Hey, it's positive publicity and it'll be picked up by at least a few peeps who have no idea of our existence so it's nothing to sneeze at.

Can't hurt.

I've tried watching the game with folks on fb but it becomes such a shattered experience, jumping from this thread to that. If they could just keep it in one thread.

Does the CPF ever do an IGT on fb? fb needs one stable thread for game talk. Or we go pull everyone in here. One game, one thread.

March 7, 2014

G-Fafif wrote:
Get to know Zvon!

That is awesome!

stevejrogers · March 7, 2014

Zvon wrote:

I'll never pass up on using the name Warren when possible. There aren't enough of us around.

Fair enough... =

March 7, 2014

themetfairy wrote:

G-Fafif wrote:
Get to know Zvon!

That is awesome!

Love it!!!

Zvon · March 7, 2014

G-Fafif wrote:
Get to know Zvon!

I got a bone to pick with you over horizontal cards.

G-Fafif · March 7, 2014

Zvon wrote:

G-Fafif wrote:
Get to know Zvon!

I got a bone to pick with you over horizontal cards.

Ya got the wrong Fafif. You want Jason. He's the one who dreads the entry of horizontal cards into The Holy Books...though he once identified the '74 Matlack as his favorite ever, and that couldn't be more side to side, as opposed to top to bottom.

Enjoyed that interview (thanks for the non-bonepicking shoutout). James and Michael were part of the same primordial AOL Mets board ooze that produced Jason and me.

ashie62 · March 8, 2014

Noah's first card as a Blue Jay 2010 Bowman Draft...

ashie62 · March 8, 2014

And in 2013 as a Met..

Zvon · March 8, 2014

G-Fafif wrote:

G-Fafif wrote:
Get to know Zvon!

I got a bone to pick with you over horizontal cards.

Ya got the wrong Fafif. You want Jason. He's the one who dreads the entry of horizontal cards into The Holy Books...though he once identified the '74 Matlack as his favorite ever, and that couldn't be more side to side, as opposed to top to bottom.

Enjoyed that interview (thanks for the non-bonepicking shoutout). James and Michael were part of the same primordial AOL Mets board ooze that produced Jason and me.

Where's Jason? Lemme at him.
Yes, some cards can't be resisted like the Matlack. He must not fight the force.

Thanks Greg. Wow, AOL? That's pretty incredible.

Zvon · March 8, 2014

Ashie62 wrote:
And in 2013 as a Met..

OOO,nice. You really have to hold a chrome in your hands to see how beautiful they are. Web does not do them justice.

March 9, 2014

Zvon wrote:

Ashie62 wrote:
And in 2013 as a Met..

OOO,nice. You really have to hold a chrome in your hands to see how beautiful they are. Web does not do them justice.

As a poorly photoshopped Met!

Benjamin Grimm · March 9, 2014

Ashie62 wrote:
And in 2013 as a Met..

Geez, time sure does fly. I can't believe that Noah Syndergaard is forty already.

ashie62 · March 9, 2014

Freddie Krueger? lol

batmagadanleadoff · March 14, 2014

batmagadanleadoff · March 14, 2014

In 1965, Travis's last name was spelled with a leading small capital D ----> D'ARNAUD

batmagadanleadoff · March 14, 2014

Terry Collins is on at least as many Mets cards as Ol' Case.

[fimg=282:1r7z5mlf]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7314/13150968235_4031aabd77_o.jpg[/fimg:1r7z5mlf][fimg=222:1r7z5mlf]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3719/13151017995_ea6296f899_o.jpg[/fimg:1r7z5mlf][fimg=222:1r7z5mlf]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2676/13151139673_b620509332_o.jpg[/fimg:1r7z5mlf] [fimg=222:1r7z5mlf]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7422/13151018925_535f3d4428_o.jpg[/fimg:1r7z5mlf]

It's like one of those Presidential before and afters, where the President ages like 10 years in just one term.

Zvon · March 14, 2014

Sweet cards. That rook card. Pop out Flores and pop in Thor and Im droolin.

Zvon · March 21, 2014

Would it be safe to say that Duffy Dyer's pinch hit double in the Ball On The Wall Game was the biggest hit in his MLB career?? Did he do anything else of note as a Met or otherwise?

batmagadanleadoff · May 16, 2014

Omar Quintanilla joins the club of major leaguers who played for the Mets in at least three different seasons without appearing on a Topps Base set card as a Met -- charter member -- Bobby Heise.

Omar did appear on those giant sized Topps that are used to highlight the Citi Field starting lineup. Good luck inserting one of those into your nine-pocket card sleeve holder.

ashie62 · May 16, 2014

I picked up a Dominic Smith 2013 Bowman Draft Refractor recently....

batmagadanleadoff · October 4, 2014

Mets Card of the Week: 1968 Tom Seaver
by Doug Parker � August 13, 2014 � 5 Comments

[fimg=233]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1968-Seaver-regular-213x300.jpg[/fimg]

Tom Seaver shared his 1967 Topps rookie card with Bill Denehy.

Of course, Seaver won the Rookie of the Year award that season, earning himself the privilege of not just a stand-alone card in 1968, but also one numbered with the coveted divisor of 5 (45), and adorned with the all-star rookie trophy.

In the portrait photograph selected for his 1968 card, Seaver looks impossibly young. His hat looks impossibly blue. And the sky looks only slightly less-impossibly blue. It is an impossibly beautiful and simple card.

But if the scheming Seaver had had his way, the aquarian star-children of the day would have pulled something quite different from their first-series packs.

You see, back in spring training of 1967, before he�d thrown a pitch in a big-league game, the sly rookie tried to pull a fast one on the Topps lensman, and posed in a follow-through motion as a left-handed pitcher.

And as it happens, Topps initially chose a picture from this session for Seaver�s 1968 card, going so far as to run at least one proof sheet with this layout. He would have gotten away with it too, if not for some meddling proofreader who pointed out that Seaver was indeed a right-handed pitcher.

There is only one known copy of this proof card extant, so all I can share is a degraded iPhone snap of a reproduction of a second-generation scan:

[fimg=233]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1968-Seaver-219x300.jpg[/fimg]

It turns out that Seaver wasn�t the only right-handed future Hall of Famer who tried to pull this stunt in 1968� Bob Gibson also appeared as a lefty on his initial proof card. Not sure if they were in cahoots, or if there was just something southpaw in the air that year�

[fimg=233]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bob-Gibson.jpg[/fimg]

http://mets360.com/?p=22707

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