Sunday, December 23, 2018

Five Random Cubs Cards

I've got 16,197 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: 1955 Bowman #137 Bob Talbot  Talbot played in 114 games in 1954, which was good enough to get a card in the 1955 Bowman set.  Yet after 1954 he never played in the major leagues.  He knocked around in the minors until 1960.



1980s: 1982 Fleer #603 Lee Smith  This is one of Smith's first cards.  Fleer, Donruss, and Topps all made a card for him for the first time in 1982.


1990s: 1990 Baseball Wit #19 Ernie Banks  This card uses a nice-look mid-Sixties picture of Mr. Cub at Shea.


2000s: 2006 Upper Deck #103 Ryan Dempster  Dempster was always someone who appreciated the fans.


2010s: 2013 Topps Cut to the Chase #34 Ernie Banks These die cut cards from 2013 were awesome.  Too bad they don't make them any more.


2 comments:

  1. The random number generator is obviously quite excited about Lee Smith getting the call to the Hall!

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