I've got 21,195 Cubs cards from 316 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Five Random Cubs Cards
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Comparing the Main Brands - 2004
Year - 2004
Main Brands - Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Upper Deck
Number of Players Included Among All the Sets: 41
Players Included in Every Set: 8
The total number of Cubs players surpassed the 40 mark, the first time that had happened since the pre-strike season of 1993. But just eight players were in all four sets. Smaller Donruss (400 cards) and Fleer (500 cards) sets had something to do with that.
Kudos to Topps and Fleer for including some off-season acquisitions, Derrek Lee and Latroy Hawkins. Upper Deck was the only set to have a 2004 Cubs card for Greg Maddux in the base set.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
I Dominated Dominator
This is the green /25 version of Billy Williams' card in the 2023 Donruss insert set Dominators. It is also the ninth of ten possible versions that I now have. The only one that I'm missing is the black 1/1.
The nine cards fit together nicely in a 3x3 mosaic.
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
2023 Cubs #47 - PCA
Touted Cubs prospect Pete Crow-Armstrong was called up on Tuesday and later played in the game that night as a pinch-runner. PCA came to the Cubs from the Mets in the Javier Baez trade. The Mets drafted him #1 in the first round of the 2020 draft. He was injured early in the 2021 season, and was not playing when he was traded. It was a risky trade, but it seems like the Cubs gamble paid off.
He's moved quickly through the Cubs' system, with the two A teams last season and this year in AA and AAA. He's with the big team now as a late inning runner and defensive replacement. It don't think the Cubs are expecting anything from him offensively, yet. But who knows?