Sunday, October 29, 2017

Five Random Cubs Cards

I've got 15,132 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: 1977 Fritch One Year Wonders #14 Paul Schramka This is a very interesting card, and not because of the career of Paul Schramka.  He played in just two games and didn't have a plate appearance.  What is significant is on his back.  He wore #14 in the early part of the 1953 season.  At the end of the year it was given to another rookie - Ernie Banks - and it would never be worn by another Cub player again.




1980s: 1986 Topps #485 Gary Matthews What a boring looking card, with the Sarge lined up against a brick wall and shot



1990s: 1995 Team-issued #57 Rich Garces One nice thing about the team-issued cards is that they are often the only sets that have cards of players that had brief Cubs careers.  Garces' time with the Cubs consisted of just seven games, so this is the one and only card.



2000s: 2003 Donruss #251 Alex Gonzalez  I'm still getting over the Cubs disappointing performance in this year's NLCS and the Random Number Generator gives me this...ouch!



2010s: 2017 Allen & Ginter #1 Kris Bryant  This is one of seven base sets that gave Bryant the #1 slot.  He was also  #1 in Topps flagship, Bowman, Fire, Gypsy Queen, Opening Day, and Chrome.


3 comments:

  1. Wow, I didn't realize Bryant was #1 in so many sets. I wonder if that slot will be reserved for Judge or Bellinger in 2018.

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    1. If Topps Update is any indication, then prepare for Judge...

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  2. The #1 will either be Judge, or if the Dodgers win the World Series (rally...) then it could be Kershaw.

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