Leaf 2003 Fred McGriff: McGriff takes a whack at Wrigley Field. He didn't play for the Cubs in 2003, as the Cubs elected to not re-sign him after 2002. They felt confident in the abilities of rookie Hee Seop Choi to take over at first. Oops! And Leaf, that pixelated stuff on the right side of the card looks dumb.
Allen and Ginter 2008 Carlos Zambrano: This would be the happy Z, not the psycho Z.
Pacific 1999 Mark Grace: The generator give us Mark Grace two weeks in a row. With his blazing (?) speed, I wonder if he was out and the plate. The back of the card list no personal information about the player; no birthday, heigh, weight, home town; none of the information you usually find on the back of a card.
Fleer 1999 Jose Nieves: Four of the five players picked today were great players with All Star game appearances. Jose is the odd man out. He played in two games with the Cubs in 1998 and that was enough for Fleer to include him in their update set.
Topps 1963 Lou Brock: Well, wasn't that nice of the random number generator to remind me of the worst trade in Cubs history. It's a nice card of Brock taken at the Polo Grounds, where he was one of a select few who hit a ball into the center field bleachers.
Brock made Bill James nuts. James figured that someone who had the power to hit one out in the Polo Grounds shouldn't have spent his career slapping at the ball. Seemed to work out okay for Brock, but James thought he should have tapped his inner Willie Mays: power + speed.
ReplyDelete