Position player - Pete Rose Pitchers - Louisiana Lightening (Ron Guidry), Goose Gossage
Working on these raw sets: 54 & 55 Bowman 55, 56, 58, & 60 Topps. Have lots of cards, including some PSAs, 53-58 to trade. Also, have Football 55-57 to trade for BB cards.
Me, Jerry Grote. A 7-year-old doesn't look at OPS and OBP stats, but his #15 jersey looked really cool!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Brian Downing, hands down. I loved his arcane open stance. His arms were bigger than my thighs.
I threw all of my Brian Downing cards into my nine pocket pages. '81 Topps, '82 Donruss, '83 Topps, (2) '86 Topps. He took a place of honor next to Pete Rose, Rod Carew, and Steve Garvey (I hated the Dodgers, but loved that green 'N.L. All Star' stripe at the top of his '81 Topps card.
I went to my friend's house for a sleepover. He looked through my album to see if I had anyone he wanted.
"Why do you keep commons in your album?" "Who's common?" "This guy." "Brian Downing, he's a great player." "It's not a rookie, he's not a star. He's only worth five cents. Don't you have anyone better to put in this spot?"
When I got home, I took out all of my Brian Downings (along with UL Washington (I loved that toothpick), Lonnie Smith (he was a Cardinal and a Smith, he belonged next to Ozzie), and Dan Quisenberry (submariners ruled!).
I replaced them with Cory Snyder, Glenn Davis, and Danny Tartabull (the only guy with TWO Rated Rookies cards).
Watching baseball that season, I looked at the game differently. I wanted the players whose rookie cards I had to do well. Brian Downing, Doug DeCinces, and George Hendrick were still good and I still liked to watch them. They were just, well, common. And in a world with Wally Joyner, who has time for the commons?
Carlton Fisk was my idol in that I played catcher in 4th grade. Kind of stuck.
As a side note, my brother has written three books. They are all kind of academic, but they have indexes. He put me in the first one as being referenced on page 27. The second book, he indexed me on page 72. The third one I ran out of uniform numbers, so I went with the old stand-by of 69.
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Jose Cardenal... Literally ate the ivy off the wall at Wrigley Field.
Pitchers - Louisiana Lightening (Ron Guidry), Goose Gossage
54 & 55 Bowman
55, 56, 58, & 60 Topps.
Have lots of cards, including some PSAs, 53-58 to trade.
Also, have Football 55-57 to trade for BB cards.
YOU DON'T RUN ON ROBERTO CLEMENTE!!!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
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Hey mean Joe . . . Need any help ?
Actually , if I remember the commercial correctly Mean Joe threw the kid a Jersey , Joe got the Coke from the kid
Hey Joe ! where did ya get the Coke ?
The kid gave me the Coke , I swear !
I threw all of my Brian Downing cards into my nine pocket pages. '81 Topps, '82 Donruss, '83 Topps, (2) '86 Topps. He took a place of honor next to Pete Rose, Rod Carew, and Steve Garvey (I hated the Dodgers, but loved that green 'N.L. All Star' stripe at the top of his '81 Topps card.
I went to my friend's house for a sleepover. He looked through my album to see if I had anyone he wanted.
"Why do you keep commons in your album?"
"Who's common?"
"This guy."
"Brian Downing, he's a great player."
"It's not a rookie, he's not a star. He's only worth five cents. Don't you have anyone better to put in this spot?"
When I got home, I took out all of my Brian Downings (along with UL Washington (I loved that toothpick), Lonnie Smith (he was a Cardinal and a Smith, he belonged next to Ozzie), and Dan Quisenberry (submariners ruled!).
I replaced them with Cory Snyder, Glenn Davis, and Danny Tartabull (the only guy with TWO Rated Rookies cards).
Watching baseball that season, I looked at the game differently. I wanted the players whose rookie cards I had to do well. Brian Downing, Doug DeCinces, and George Hendrick were still good and I still liked to watch them. They were just, well, common. And in a world with Wally Joyner, who has time for the commons?
As a side note, my brother has written three books. They are all kind of academic, but they have indexes. He put me in the first one as being referenced on page 27. The second book, he indexed me on page 72. The third one I ran out of uniform numbers, so I went with the old stand-by of 69.
Joe Morgan was also a favorite.
Kurt
Steve Largent.