Five Random Cubs Cards

I've got 16,134 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: 1971 Kelloggs #61 Billy Williams  Kelloggs did a nice job with this one.

1980s: 1981 Donruss #482 Bill Buckner  I was in college in 1981.  I knew that the first Topps set, 1952, was worth a lot of money.  I figured that if I bought the first Donruss set, in 30 years I'd be sitting on a fortune.  I am not sitting on a fortune today.  When adjusted for inflation, a 1981 Donruss set is worth less now than in 1981.  But I do have cards like this one, showing Bill Buckner's neck hair.

1990s: 1994 Bowman #26 Mike Morgan In 1994 Mike Morgan was paid $3.375 million by the Cubs.  He won two games and lost ten.  I think that paying nearly $2 million per win was overpaying.

2000s: 2009 Topps Factory Set Bonus #CHI5 Kosuke Fukudome .... and speaking of overpaying!

2010s: 2013 Topps #561 Josh Vitters  No overpaying here, just over-rating.  Remember when Josh Vitters and Brett Jackson were going to come up from the minors and lead the Cubs to greatness?  After hitting just .121 over 36 games in 2012, he never made it back to the majors.  I think Theo rushed both Vitters and Jackson to the majors to show the fans just how bad the minor league system was.  That bought his rebuild program some time.