Baseball cards can sometimes predict the future! Three examples:

Estil · July 1, 2009 2:13PM

1989 Topps Mark McGwire: This card is #70, and '89 is the year Mark hit 70 home runs in reverse ('98).

1998 Donruss Mark McGwire: Correctly predicted Mark would break Maris' single season home run record that year. How? The card happens to be #62!

1992 Donruss Kent Mercker/Alejandro Pena #616: This card was issued to commemorate the combined no-hitter these two Braves pitchers threw. The date it occured? September 11, 1991. And all of you know what happened exactly ten years later.

This isn't a card, but this is interesting to point out too. In the movie Back to the Future Part II Marty sees a billboard that reads "CUBS WIN WORLD SERIES...OVER MIAMI". Well in 2003, the Cubs came within seven outs of winning the NLCS over Miami!! Not exactly the World Series but can you imagine how freaky that would've been had the Cubs pulled it off?

jeffcbay · July 1, 2009 2:17PM

I'll have what HE'S having! lol

just kidding, good stuff!

Robb · July 1, 2009 2:32PM

RRRiiiggghhhttt...

billwaltonsbeard · July 1, 2009 2:48PM

and also, Lincoln and Kennedy both had the same number of letters in their names

Allen · July 1, 2009 9:27PM

Also every player who has appeared on Topps regular issue card #666 has been the spawn of Satan.

Bottom9th · July 1, 2009 11:49PM

What was the song..."too much time on my hands"

billwaltonsbeard · July 1, 2009 11:54PM

<< <i>What was the song..."too much time on my hands" >>

Nathaniel1960 · July 2, 2009 12:49AM

The 1987 Kentucky Wildcats Football Press Book claimed that Florida would win the next 22 ganes in the series. How right they were.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/preview?gameId=282990057

BunchOBull · July 2, 2009 2:31AM

This may very well be the subject of a future History Channel special.

gregmo32 · July 2, 2009 4:54AM

The Washington Bullets / Wizards franchise is undefeated in their entire history when they outscore their opponent.

MULLINS5 · July 2, 2009 5:00AM

Back to the Future part two also introduced the first digital camera

TonyC · July 2, 2009 5:25AM

This card, from 2009 Upper Deck Baseball, is one of the best examples of how cards can predict the future:

AkbarClone · July 2, 2009 6:52AM

I don't understand example #3. What does a combined no-hitter have to do with predicting a terrorist attack 10 years later?
Maybe I just don't see something everyone else must see.

70chip · July 2, 2009 7:08AM

Thanks for sharing, really.

wolfbear · July 2, 2009 7:15AM

The mind boggles ...

larryallen73 · July 2, 2009 7:15AM

Time for a job Estil! You need to put your education to work!

detroitfan2 · July 2, 2009 10:04AM

"I'm not going hunting with anyone that plays the same position as I do."

-Derrick Coleman, on why he repeatedly turns down invitations to go hunting with teammate Jayson Williams.

Now that, my friends, is predicting the future.

otwcards · July 2, 2009 10:27AM

<< <i>and also, Lincoln and Kennedy both had the same number of letters in their names >>

Don't forget the other coincidences with Lincoln and JFK:

** Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
** Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
** Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
** Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
** Lincoln was elected in 1860.
** Kennedy was elected in 1960.
** Lincoln's assassin pulled the trigger in a theater and hid in a library.
** Kennedy's assassin pulled the trigger in a library and hid in a theater.
** Lincoln and Kennedy were both replaced by their VP's . . . both named Johnson (Andrew - born 1808 and Lyndon - born 1908).
** Both Lincoln and Kennedy championed the cause of African-Americans (abolition of slavery and civil rights).
** Both assassins (Boothe and Oswald) were shot and killed before standing trial.

Interesting parallels . . .

justmichael · July 2, 2009 11:21AM

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<< <i>and also, Lincoln and Kennedy both had the same number of letters in their names >>

Don't forget the other coincidences with Lincoln and JFK:

** Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
** Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
** Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
** Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
** Lincoln was elected in 1860.
** Kennedy was elected in 1960.
** Lincoln's assassin pulled the trigger in a theater and hid in a library.
** Kennedy's assassin pulled the trigger in a library and hid in a theater.
** Lincoln and Kennedy were both replaced by their VP's . . . both named Johnson (Andrew - born 1808 and Lyndon - born 1908).
** Both Lincoln and Kennedy championed the cause of African-Americans (abolition of slavery and civil rights).
** Both assassins (Boothe and Oswald) were shot and killed before standing trial.

Interesting parallels . . . >>

Are those really true?I had no idea about any of them.Thanks for the interesting tidbits.
Mike

Baseball cards can sometimes predict the future! Three examples:

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