Quiz in honor of Scott Hairston

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Keef?

[G-Fafif]

Ron Swoboda

[batmagadanleadoff]

[Vic Sage]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Charley Smith

did you just pick that name out of your ass, or did you look it up? Cuz i had to look it up. I never heard of the dude, and i've been a fan since 71.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy DC wrote: How about that card not spelling Charley's name the way he did?

seawolf17 wrote: Topps don't care. We spell things the way we want to spell things, bitch.

Smith appeared on a Topps card eight times, once a year from 1962 - 1969. Topps spelled his first name correctly only twice; in 1963 and in 1967. Topps' misspelling of Smith's first name is what probably threw Sage off the trail.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy DC wrote: How about that card not spelling Charley's name the way he did? seawolf17 wrote: Topps don't care. We spell things the way we want to spell things, bitch. Smith appeared on a Topps card eight times, once a year from 1962 - 1969. Topps spelled his first name correctly only twice; in 1963 and in 1967. Topps' misspelling of Smith's first name is what probably threw Sage off the trail.

Is this a Mets card or a Chisox card? Or both? Or neither?

[batmagadanleadoff]

More Charlie trouble.

So what's the correct spelling for this guy's first name?



In a random sampling of literature, it's spelled "Charley" in Ryckek's The Amazing Mets, but "Charlie" in Koppett's The New York Mets.

[batmagadanleadoff]

It's "Charlie" Neal, according to the paper of record.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The St. Petersburg Times said "Charley".



http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19611216&id=_19SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PXkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6123,2633688

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The St. Petersburg Times said "Charley".

So did Newsday.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/welcome-to-the-show-the-mets-first-game-1.3736435

[stevejrogers]

seawolf17 wrote: I specifically pick a non-ugly KMac card and you give me that. I'm still kinda bitter that he never signed a Topps contract until he got here. I want to have Topps go back and make retro cards from 1983-1987 in Padres uniforms for me. (Someone get me a Photoshop expert.)

I want to say it may have been done for their Fan Favorites/Archives/Retired lines. IIRC there is a Met card of him somewhere in there, so there must be a Padre one of him as well.

[batmagadanleadoff]

SteveJRogers wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I specifically pick a non-ugly KMac card and you give me that. I'm still kinda bitter that he never signed a Topps contract until he got here. I want to have Topps go back and make retro cards from 1983-1987 in Padres uniforms for me. (Someone get me a Photoshop expert.) I want to say it may have been done for their Fan Favorites/Archives/Retired lines. IIRC there is a Met card of him somewhere in there, so there must be a Padre one of him as well.

No Topps Padres McReynolds cards exist. None were ever produced, not even in Mac's retirement.

[seawolf17]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I specifically pick a non-ugly KMac card and you give me that. I'm still kinda bitter that he never signed a Topps contract until he got here. I want to have Topps go back and make retro cards from 1983-1987 in Padres uniforms for me. (Someone get me a Photoshop expert.) I want to say it may have been done for their Fan Favorites/Archives/Retired lines. IIRC there is a Met card of him somewhere in there, so there must be a Padre one of him as well. No Topps Padres McReynolds cards exist. None were ever produced, not even in Mac's retirement.

As the foremost expert on Kevin McReynolds cards in the world, that is correct.

[Vic Sage]

No Topps Padres McReynolds cards exist. None were ever produced, not even in Mac's retirement.

i would suggest that ALL of Mac's cards as a Met were produced during his retirement.
and i would also suggest that, all these years later, he can still go fuck himself.

[G-Fafif]

Charley Smith ingrained in my head as a onetime Mets slugger because in 1990 when Equitable was underwriting Old Timers Day, the Mets held one with the theme of Mets Third Basemen (which is a great forgotten topic of angst in the Wright Era). The Old Timers Game pitted Mets 3B vs. Mets Opponents and Howie Rose was aghast that Smith was assigned to the opponents given his holding the third base HR record for a single season pre-HoJo.

Forty-four years of listening to this stuff, some of it is bound to stick.