Foil the Royals: The 1st ever CPF World Series Card Thread.

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Plus an interloper that ain't Whitey Herzog.

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Edited October 24, 2015 by Guest

[Zvon]

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There is no way you can post this w/o sharing the details on Ray's origin story! Tease!

[G-Fafif]

That 1995 draft pick wasn't Carlos Beltran. Who was he? Story here.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: [fimg=300]https://farm1.staticflickr.com/723/22400965296_18daeda63e_o.jpg[/fimg] There is no way you can post this w/o sharing the details on Ray's origin story! Tease!

I wouldn't know the Sadecki origin story because I never read that comic book. It's a #1 issue so I sealed my copy in a protective sleeve. There's an even rarer alternate #1 issue, but I've only seen pictures of the cover. I never even saw the alt issue on ebay.


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Edited October 25, 2015 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: That 1995 draft pick wasn't Carlos Beltran. Who was he? Story here.

Jeez, You spotted another interloper besides the first interloper that isn't Whitey Herzog. Talk about a way to sneak into a card thread. Would you like a Bob Miller '73 Padres DIY Topps as a prize?. It's got Steve Rogers name on it, you might've heard by now.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zvon wrote: There is no way you can post this w/o sharing the details on Ray's origin story! Tease! I wouldn't know the Sadecki origin story because I never read that comic book. It's a #1 issue so I sealed my copy in a protective sleeve. There's an even rarer alternate #1 issue, but I've only seen pictures of the cover. I never even saw the alt issue on ebay. [fimg=300]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5744/22427946926_ccfb858439_o.jpg[/fimg]

lolol. Love it!

[Lefty Specialist]

"35 Sexy Tips Yogi Berra Ignored in the '73 World Series"

Comedy gold.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Splittorff seems pretty interloperorff to me.

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: There is no way you can post this w/o sharing the details on Ray's origin story! Tease! I wouldn't know the Sadecki origin story because I never read that comic book. It's a #1 issue so I sealed my copy in a protective sleeve. There's an even rarer alternate #1 issue, but I've only seen pictures of the cover. I never even saw the alt issue on ebay. [fimg=300]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5744/22427946926_ccfb858439_o.jpg[/fimg] lolol. Love it!

Frank Sadecki, the son of Polish immigrant parents, spent his childhood working in the family grocery store rather than playing baseball. As a result, his greatest wish for his son Ray from the beginning was to be �left-handed, (to) like baseball, and become a major leaguer.�1 Frank�s wish was granted as his son, after just a brief minor-league apprenticeship, burst into the big leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1960, the start of a long and successful career in baseball. Raymond Michael Sadecki was born on December 26, 1940, in Kansas City, Kansas, to Frank and Josephine Sadecki. Frank Sadecki, a sheriff who worked out of the US marshal�s office in Kansas City, often had the task of escorting prisoners to the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, and he sometimes took Ray along, stopping on the return trip to catch Cardinals and Browns games in St. Louis. Ray began to garner serious attention as a player while at Ward High School in Kansas City (where he was also an excellent student). Not long after graduating in 1958, Sadecki, just 17 years old, signed with Cardinals scout Runt Marr for a $50,000 bonus plus another $18,000 over the first three years. While in high school, Sadecki had also attracted the attention of a cheerleader named Diane Rush. The two married on July 13, 1960. Sadecki said he never regretted forgoing college for baseball. �College probably wasn�t as big a deal, just in life,� he told an interviewer in 2009. �We were still postwar people who thought, �Hey, go get a job.� � SABR BASEBALL BIO PROJECT

Diane Sadecki, who I suddenly realize actually has been in my kitchen, was good with the rod 'n' reel.

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: Splittorff seems pretty interloperorff to me.

Splittorf gets to barnacle onto Cram. The rule is that on multi-player cards, so long as there's one player who played for both teams, the rest of the players on that card get a free pass. That's Cram's only Royals card -- that's why I used it.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Sorry, sir... I'll go sit in the corner for an hour haha.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Caucasian Chris Young looks a little suspicious.

[seawolf17]

I think the interloper is Kyle Farnsworth, because I THOUGHT WE ALL AGREED THAT "KYLE FARNSWORTH, MET" NEVER HAPPENED.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Though we didn't foil the Royals, we did foil our interloper gamers. Our World Series interloper is Dennis Ribant, whom the Royals sold to St. Looey one week before the start of their inaugural 1969 season. Never a Royal, Ribant nevertheless holds the distinction of being the first player ever to appear on a Topps baseball card in a Royals uniform -- a record that still stands today.

Thank you for playing. We'll be back next week with another card thread featuring Mets who once played for the current opponent.

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