1900s - 1970s: 1969 Jewel Don Kessinger I love the photography in the 1969 Jewel set. Most, like this, were taken at Wrigley Field.
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Five Random Cubs Cards
I've got 16,095 Cubs cards from 135 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.
1900s - 1970s: 1969 Jewel Don Kessinger I love the photography in the 1969 Jewel set. Most, like this, were taken at Wrigley Field.
1980s: 1988 Donruss Baseball's Best #138 Rick Sutcliffe The set is called "Baseball's Best." So was he? In 1988 he was 13-14. That's more suited to a set called "Baseball's Middle of the Pack."
1990s: 1994 Fleer #379 Jose Bautista He was coming off his career-best year of 1993, when he was 10-3 with an ERA of 2.82. The 1994 season saw him return to form, unfortunately, as he was 4-5 and hit ERA ballooned to nearly 4.
2000s: 2006 Greats of the Game Pewter #35 Fergie Jenkins This is from one of my all-time favorite sets. I went all-in with the 2006 set, picking up the base, pewter, and copper versions, along with the autograph cards.
2010s: 2017 Donruss #67 Javier Baez Javier's arm placement covers up the Cubs logo on his chest, and his head it turned to eliminate most of the C on his helmet. If you have to make logo-less cards, this is about as good as you can do to still make it look real.
1900s - 1970s: 1969 Jewel Don Kessinger I love the photography in the 1969 Jewel set. Most, like this, were taken at Wrigley Field.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The card of Jose Bautista, he looks an awful lot like Pedro Martinez. Too bad they weren't swapped!
ReplyDelete