Sunday, May 23, 2021

Five Random Cubs Cards

I've got 19,237 Cubs cards from 284 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.


1900s - 1970s: 1976 SSPC #309 Bill Madlock Something seems wrong with his hat.  The C looks kinda messed up and the bill is bent oddly.  It doesn't look like a real hat but more like the cheapy you'd buy at Sears.


1980s: 1983 Big League Collectibles Bill Nicholson  I give them credit for trying to colorize the picture.  But it looks like a kid grabbed some markers and drew over the top of a black and white photo.


1990s: 1996 Score #336 Sammy Sosa  Sammy kicked up a cloud of dust with his slide.  You don't see that any more with the modern clay-type material they use on today's infields.


2000s: 2008 Upper Deck #77 Aramis Ramirez  This would have been a decent picture for Upper Deck to use two years ahead of this one, when they lost their MLB license for the 2010 season.



2010s: 2019 Bowman's Best #46 Anthony Rizzo The stain on Rizzo's right leg is almost a perfect match for the one on Ramierz in the card above.  The RNG had a thing for dirt this week.

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