I've got 21,141 Cubs cards from 316 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.
1900s - 1970s: 1952 Topps #330 Turk Lown My high-number cards from the 1952 set are not in the best of condition. I'm perfectly fine with that and have no plans to upgrade to better cards. You can see come creases on Turk's hat. Those just give the card some character.
1980s: 1989 Fleer Traded #79 Dwight Smith Thankfully, you didn't see many hatless pictures by 1989. Twenty years earlier the Topps set was loaded with them. 1990s: 1999 Brilliants #175 Roosevelt Brown The cards in this set are chrome and look much better in hand that what the scanner picked up. The brand was a one-and-done, so it must not have been much of any competition to Topps Chrome.2000s: 2006 Topps Walmart #38 Derrek Lee Every blaster sold at Walmart had three cards from this Heritage-type set. 2010s: 2015 Bowman Prospects #117 Addison Russell Well, this started out very nicely but did not end well.
That's a really nice Derrek Lee.
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