I've got 21,863 Cubs cards from 317 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.
2000s: 2005 Vine Line Carlos Zambrano This card is part of an eight card pack that was given to anyone who subscribed for one year to the Cubs magazine Vine Line.
2010s: 2018 Kris Bryant Highlights #3 How crazy is it that Topps put out an insert set of 30 cards featuring highlights of a guy with three years MLB experience. He averaged 152 games over those first three seasons. which were the peak of his career. In the following seven years he's averaged just 83 games a season.
Not positive... but I think the Cubs were the only team to receive the floating head treatment in the 1981 set.
ReplyDeleteI've been collating a bunch of those lately in hopes of building the set. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty certain you're correct, Fuji.
DeleteFloating heads!
ReplyDeleteTopps went through a fad of doing those sets for young players. It was nuts. It would make so much more sense to do that for guys at the end of their careers--right now maybe Verlander or Scherzer. More interesting cards, more variety, more team collectors to appeal to.
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