Best Baseball Card pix

Darrell Porter looks like he fell asleep during wood shop.

 

Ron Santo is so embarrassed that he played for the White Sox he refuse to talk about the season he spent on the South Side.

 

That's funny. Ozzie rookie was by far the best card I got in a pack during my first year collecting. I have about 15 of them, but of course about 12 are just trashed, largely because I was 4 at the time.

I have several of the Montana rookies as well, and fortunately, I was old enough then to know to put them into plastic sheets as soon as I got them.

 

Even more than all the choking the North Side boys did?

(ducking)

 

A couple years ago, I was watching my nephew's little league game and I watched all the kids getting their cards after the game.

Then I watched a couple of them pull out the inserts and throw the rest of the cards into the garbage.

Like I had to be reminded how ruined the hobby is.

 

Just because I wanted to see what a Seattle Pilots uniform looked like.

Unfortunately there are no Dooley Womack Pilots cards.

 

Good gawd, I have about a dozen Ed Olwines. Glad I'm not the only one.

 

The 1975 reduced-sized Topps cards were so small, Goose Gossage had to shave his moustache just to get him to fit.

 

I love that 1975 mini set. I bought it when I was 12 with lawn mowing money. I actually think it is worth roughly the same amount now as it was in 1986.

George Brett rookie
Robin Yount rookie
Jim Rice Rookie
Fred Lynn Rookie
Gary Carter Rookie

 

Not sure what I loved more as an eight-year-old, my card collection or filling up this bad boy:

 

Anybody else remember the baseball cards Hostess printed on the bottom of their boxes in the mid-70s?



Or what about Kellogg's 3D cards from the same era?:

 

Great article on Slate recently about how Upper Deck hit the jackpot by putting that Griffey card as #1 on its inaugural set:

http://www.slate.com/id/2191533/

I, of course, could hardly ever get my hands on a Griffey-type card. I did wind up with about seven Roger Ericksons or Jesse Jeffersons every year I collected cards. Never failed. I grew to hate Roger Erickson and Jesse Jefferson, even though I knew of them only through baseball cards.

Meanwhile, my all-time favorite is the Father Guido Sarducci card: