Sunday, October 22, 2017

Five Random Cubs Cards

I've got 15,108 Cubs cards from 123 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.




1900s - 1970s: 1978 Topps #663 Paul Reuschel  The 1978 season was the last one that the two Reuschel brothers were on the same team.  While Rick's career was going sky high, Pauls was on fumes.  Though his record was 2-0, his ERA was 5.14 and the Cubs sent him to the Indians in late June.




1980s: 1981 Topps Giant #8 Rick Reuschel I swear the RNG really did pick this card...a big card of Big Daddy.  Not only do we get the other Reuschel, but we get him in his final year with the Cubs.  After average 36 starts for eight seasons, Reuschel finally broke in 1981.  The Cubs traded him to the Yankees in mid-June.



1990s: 1996 Upper Deck #22 Brian McRae  Red gloves and a red bat.  Someone needs to tell Brian that he plays for the Cubs, not the Cardinals



2000s: 2002 Bowman #233 Hee Seop Choi  There was alot of buzz about Choi when he came to the Cubs in 2002.  He was going to be as good or better than Mark Grace.  Um.... no.



2010s: 2017 Archives #137 Kyle Hendricks  It was good to see Topps including Hendricks in more products this year.  Since his ERA was up in 2017, I wonder if that means his Topps inclusion rate will go down?


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