Sunday, December 15, 2019

Five Random Cubs Cards

I've got 17,359 Cubs cards from 203 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.


1900s - 1970s: 1978 SSPC #255 Willie Hernandez  Willie always had a pretty laid-back, cool look on his cards.



1980s: 1989 Topps Stickers #38 Sticker back Ryne Sandberg  The 1989 sticker made you collect both the fronts and the backs.


1990s: 1999 Wrigley Field Top Ten Charlie Root  At least they didn't put Babe Ruth on the card.  Root would not have been happy if he was told that this was a WF top ten moment.  In his mind it was a non moment.


2000s: 2001 Heritage Classic Renditions #4 Sammy Sosa They put Sammy against a barely visible backdrop of an old ballpark and that makes this a Classic Rendition.  Um, no.  We need to see more of the ballpark and more of his uniform to get the idea that this has been set in the past.


2010s: 2019 Heritage Cloth Sticker #30 Javier Baez  I had a hard time getting a decent scan of the cloth stickers.  The gray border got wavy and the picture is grainy looking.




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