Sunday, August 6, 2023

Five Random Cubs Cards

 I've got 21,177 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: 1946 Hall of Fame Joe Tinker  Tinker, Evers, and Chance all went into the hall together in 1946.  Chance was the only real HOFer of the three.


1980s: 1984 Fleer #505 Lee Smith  After a couple of lean years after trading Bruce Sutter, it was nice to have a dominating closer again with Lee Smith.


1990s: 1994 Kraft #23 Mark Grace  No Sandberg in the 1994 set (he was in 1993) but Grace's card is #23, so we get a sorta Sandberg, too.


2000s: 2004 Fall Classic Covers 1910 Cubs  Some day I'll have to make one of these for the 2016 World Series.  The 1910 series was the Cubs fourth in five years.   


2010s: 2018 Heritage #264 Carl Edwards He will always be remembered as the guy that got the first two outs in the tenth inning of game 7.

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