The Boys of Indian Summer

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Indian Week preview.

[Edgy MD]

Bigger, Phil! I fucking want the the MLB logo to be BIGGER!

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That smile right out of a Norman Rockwell painting against the bluest sky .... sweet shades of Ozzie Sweet!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

That Gooden card is both beautiful and oh-so-wrong.

Myron Ginsburg?

[Zvon]

THE AGEE! BIG WOW MOMENT! Awesome card. I have never seen that one before. Real or not that ones amazin'.

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Zvon wrote: THE AGEE! BIG WOW MOMENT! Awesome card. I have never seen that one before. Real or not that ones amazin'.

The '64 Agee's a DIY I found on the web. I think that the Agee photo is one of those unused Topps' archives deals that was sold off. The two photos at the bottom of the original post are also Topps Archives photos (Ron Taylor '62 and Warren Spahn '73, pitching coach)

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metsguyinmichigan wrote: That Gooden card is both beautiful and oh-so-wrong. Myron Ginsburg?

Joe Ginsberg.

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More Boys of Indian Summer, from the Topps Archives photo collection.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: metsguyinmichigan wrote: That Gooden card is both beautiful and oh-so-wrong. Myron Ginsburg? Joe Ginsberg.

Ah! Thank you.

[Lefty Specialist]

Keith looking like he'd rather have a root canal than wear an Indians uniform.

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More Boys of Indian Summer, from the Topps Archives photo collection.

Red Kress


Bob L. Miller (a three-month Indian)

December 10, 1969: Traded by the Minnesota Twins with Dean Chance, Graig Nettles and Ted Uhlaender to the Cleveland Indians for Luis Tiant and Stan Williams. June 15, 1970: Traded by the Cleveland Indians with Barry Moore to the Chicago White Sox for Buddy Bradford and Tommie Sisk. September 1, 1970: Purchased by the Chicago Cubs from the Chicago White Sox.

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One more Boy of Indian Summer from the Topps Archives. No Indian baseball card of this player exists. If you can identify him, or figure out why his crotch is all wet, you can win this cyber photo of either Chief Noc-A-Homa or a Braves bobblehead.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: One more Boy of Indian Summer from the Topps Archives. No Indian baseball card of this player exists. If you can identify him, or figure out why his crotch is all wet, you can win this cyber photo of either Chief Noc-A-Homa or a Braves bobblehead.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That's Harry Chiti, who peed himself when he found out who thew PTBNL was.

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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That's Harry Chiti, who peed himself when he found out who thew PTBNL was.

That's right! It's Harry Chiti, the human punchline to a team that was mostly, nothing but punchlines. There's a Zvon project in that photo. Zvon could photoshop a Met uniform onto Chiti, and then make up a fantasy baseball card with a split screen effect, using both Chiti images to highlight the odd Mets/Indians trade.



Chiti never played a single game for the Tribe. His career was effectively over once the Mets returned him to Cleveland. Keith Hernandez might sympathize.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zvon wrote: THE AGEE! BIG WOW MOMENT! Awesome card. I have never seen that one before. Real or not that ones amazin'. The '64 Agee's a DIY I found on the web. I think that the Agee photo is one of those unused Topps' archives deals that was sold off. The two photos at the bottom of the original post are also Topps Archives photos (Ron Taylor '62 and Warren Spahn '73, pitching coach)

Turns out that the '64 Agee DIY wasn't from a Topps unused photo, as I speculated. Whoever photoshopped Agee's card put a lot of time and effort into the work.