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Jim Palmer's last MLB Appearance Line Up Card

IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,495 ✭✭✭✭
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I picked this 05/12/84 lineup card off ebay the other day. When I initially saw it offered, the date didn't jump out at me so I checked Baseball Reference & noted that the Orioles got thumped by Oakland 12-2 that day and that Cal Ripken Jr. went 1 for 3. I then happen to notice that Jim Palmer pitched the last couple innings in this game ("mop up duty") and gave up a few runs.

It then made me think that this was approximately the time that Palmer retired that spring and in checking Palmer's page on BB Reference, it confirmed that this was his LAST MLB appearance...His name can also be seen written in by the home plate umpre on the card (lower right)...

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  • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 328 ✭✭✭
    Nice pickup! I love lineup cards as a collectible...great detective work as well. Makes it a double score (Ripken/Palmer)
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭
    great piece, congrats!!


    Let's go O's!!!
    Fred

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  • 1all1all Posts: 511 ✭✭✭
    I love the lineup card. You've got "Fat Floyd" catching and hotdog eating Todd Cruz at 3b. I love the story of Cruz getting sent down to the minors and being caught at the concession stand ordering a hotdog when he was supposed to be in the clubhouse.

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  • esquiresportsesquiresports Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭
    Whoa - awesome score! Final game memorabilia is some of my favorite. Congrats.
    Always buying 1971 OPC Baseball packs.
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,495 ✭✭✭✭
    speaking of the late Todd Cruz, while in the minors he was busted stealing watches from a jewelry store and I read that when he was with the Orioles, his teammates would constantly bust his chops by asking him what time it was....lol

    Todd Cruz Watch Theft Article

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    Edited to add: In 1994 I was at a card/autograph show in the Baltimore area & Cruz was in attendance as a signer. I was unaware that he was going to be there and there was a specific card I owned that I wanted him to sign. During a lull in the signing, I approached him and told him my dilema and he said to mail it to him and he'd sign and return it. He took a yellow post it note, wrote his home address on it & and within a week, I had the signed card I wanted back from him.....Guess what?, to this day I still have that post it note that he gave me, just because I don't have the heart to get rid of it.
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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice pickup. I also enjoyed the related articles on Mr.Cruz.
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