Sunday, August 19, 2018

Five Random Cubs Cards

I've got 15,960 Cubs cards from 134 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.




1900s - 1970s: 1968 Topps #159 Don Kessinger  Looks like Kessinger is taking a mean cut!  The Cubs shortstop was an All Star in 1968 despite his .240 batting average.  It was the first of six times he would be named to the squad.




1980s: 1984 Team Issued Gary Matthews  Sarge must have taken a huge rip, swinging himself out of his helmet.  This card was probably the first to show him as a Cub.  Acquired at the end of spring training, all the major releases show him with the Phillies.



1990s: 1996 Score #395 Rey Sanchez  This is the second time in three weeks that the RNG has come up with a card for Rey Sanchez.  1i 1996 Ryno come out of retirement and Sanchez went back to shortstop.



2000s: 2002 Fleer Tradition #351 Ron Coomer The Cub current radio color man is shown with the Cubs in this 2002 card, but he spent the season with the Yankees.



2010s: 2011 Topps Kimball #11 Starlin Castro  I liked the Kimball inserts.  I thought they were well done.  The action shot is weird looking, though.  It almost looks like Castro is surrendering to the runner about to slide into him.


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