General All Purpose Baseball Card Thread - 2015

[batmagadanleadoff]

SteveJRogers wrote: What about card #s? Do you not count O-Pee-Chees since they have the same card image on front but number is different?

I count 'em the way I'd collect 'em. I'd only want an O-Pee-Chee if the image is different than the one on the Topps card.

[Zvon]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: And what's with METS (R) and NL (TM). Get that shit off my baseball cards.

Totally agree. I was gonna say something too. It defaces the card as far as I'm concerned. It ruins the visual flow.

[stevejrogers]

Well, put it THAT way:

Davey Johnson 9 Topps 7 (includes 1984 Traded) Topps Special sets 2 (1988 AS, 1990 UK Mets Set, Donruss 2 (both special 1988 All-Star Game sets)
Willie Randolph 8 Topps 4 (includes 2005 U&H) Other Topps Sets 3 (Allen & Ginter 2006-2007, 2008 Heritage with John Maine), Upper Deck 1
Casey Stengel 6 Topps 6, 4 solo cards and 2 with others
Joe Torre 6 Topps 4 (3 as inserts in Team Photo Card), Donruss 1, Fleer 1
Gil Hodges 5 Topps 5
Bobby Valentine 3 Topps 2 Topps Special 1 (2000 Subway Series set)
Art Howe 5 Topps 3 (includes 2003 Traded) Other Topps Sets 2 (2002's Topps 206, 2003's Topps Heritage)
Terry Collins 5 Topps Heritage 5
Wes Westrum 2 Topps 2
Yogi Berra 2 Topps 2
Joe Frazier 2 Topps 2 (both insert in Team Photo card)
Frank Howard 2 Topps 2 (includes 1983 Traded)
Bud Harrelson 2 Topps 2 (includes 1990 Traded)
Jeff Torborg 2 Topps 2 (shares his 1993 card with Tom Kelly)
George Bamberger 1 Topps 1
Dallas Green 1 Topps 1 (shares his 1993 Topps Traded card with Davey Johnson as a Red...I'd have to guess that's a rib on the Mets)
Jerry Manuel 1 Topps 1

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[batmagadanleadoff]

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[G-Fafif]

I just mentally undressed four packs of cards from 1975.

Got three of these, because I always do.

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[Edgy MD]

That guy is COOL!

You just know he captures bad guys by doing flying tackles into a row of garbage cans.

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[dgwphotography]

Maybe, but he's not wear-your-headband-outside-your-cap-cool like Tito Fuentes, who it seemed was in every one of my 1974 Topps packs...

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

The difference between the 1974 set and the 1975 set is just one year, but about a million miles. LOVE the '74 set.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Same. Good photos, portrait/landscape mix, understated design no preprinted autographs (who called for that feature?). Only quibble maybe is that the pics were relatively small but so toowere the 75ss'.

[bmfc1]

I love the Heritage set. If anyone has a second Mets' set that they'd like to sell, let me know. I'd rather deal with you than eBay.

[ashie62]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: What about card #s? Do you not count O-Pee-Chees since they have the same card image on front but number is different? I count 'em the way I'd collect 'em. I'd only want an O-Pee-Chee if the image is different than the one on the Topps card.

I count each unique manufacturer & card number as one card. I do realize the same photo will be used for many players as sets roll out during the year.

[G-Fafif]

There was a Colombian kid in eighth grade who wore gym shorts over his sweats. Always made me think of Tito. (He also wore a headband.)

Difference between '74 and '75, I realize now that I'm thinking about it, was in fifth grade ('74) the exercise felt if not exactly obligatory but something I had to do. 660-card set, came close, eventually got 'em all. It was business on some level. In sixth grade ('75), the pursuit was pure joy. Maybe it was all those bright colors, maybe it was seeing Joe Torre get a Mets card so soon after he was traded. Also I was in a better mood in sixth than I was in fifth, getting out of elementary school soon, which struck me as mind-boggling. There was a textbook with an illustration of what Europeans supposedly thought the world looked like before Columbus, with dragons awaiting those so foolish to sail off the edge of the map. I think I wondered if that's what happened once dared to voyage to junior high. (Seventh grade turned out to kind of suck but it was too late to turn back now.)

Anyway, got the 660 cards in '75, too, though I needed to give some wise guy a couple of bucks in 1978 for the last couple I was missing. It was worth it. It's four decades later and I'm exulting in it still.

[Edgy MD]

First year of Junior high was a 10-month nightmare. You don't navigate that so much as a grab onto a floatation device and surrender.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I wish I had a youtube video of flipping cards at day camp
in those years. Serious business.

[Zvon]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: I can't figure out what Topps is trying to do with the new designs. What's in the border? Is that supposed to be rocks? Infield dirt? And what's with the white lines around the team logo and in the background under the name? Is that some kind of electronics motif?

Border looks to be just foily glitz that fades from silver to the team color. The circles eminating from the team logo is just a design touch. I thought it was a thumb print when I first saw them on-line. Yea, behind the name is 'puter chipish. I reserved judgement until I saw one with my own eyes, and personally I like the design. That the color scheme of the card matches the teams color theme, that's a big plus with me.

MGIM gets an early birthday present because ever since I saw the pic (on fb or here?) I had to whip up a card from it. Don't fret. I'll still bake you a Mets cake.

[Edgy MD]

That's some big-league beltwearin'.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Zvon wrote: Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: I can't figure out what Topps is trying to do with the new designs. What's in the border? Is that supposed to be rocks? Infield dirt? And what's with the white lines around the team logo and in the background under the name? Is that some kind of electronics motif? Border looks to be just foily glitz that fades from silver to the team color. The circles eminating from the team logo is just a design touch. I thought it was a thumb print when I first saw them on-line. Yea, behind the name is 'puter chipish. I reserved judgement until I saw one with my own eyes, and personally I like the design. That the color scheme of the card matches the teams color theme, that's a big plus with me. MGIM gets an early birthday present because ever since I saw the pic (on fb or here?) I had to whip up a card from it. Don't fret. I'll still bake you a Mets cake.

BEST. PRESENT. EVER!!!!!!! Love this to death!! Thank you so much!

[stevejrogers]

Testing something out, but that is your leader in the clubhouse when it comes to major Topps brand releases by a sitting Mets skipper! =

[stevejrogers]

Okay, the current guy does seem to be catching up.