I've got 19,507 Cubs cards from 285 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.
1900s - 1970s: 1958 Topps #66 Lee Walls Walls had a great season for the Cubs in 1958 as he blasted 24 homer, drove in 72 runs, and hit .304. He even made the All Star team. It was by far the best season of his career.
1980s: 1981 Cramer #33 Ernie Banks Cramer put out 30-cards sets for four years starting in 1980. The cards were number consecutively throughout the run. That explains why he has card #33 from the 1981 set that had just 30 cards. 1990s: 1991 Upper Deck #742 George Bell A card from the one and only season Bell was with the Cubs.2000s: 2007 Just Minors #5 Darwin Barney This is one of the few non-Cubs cards in my collection. I went all-in on Darwin Barney and got all the cards from his college and minor league days, too. 2010s: 2014 Tribute #76 Billy Williams This is one of my favorite modern cards of Billy Williams.
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ReplyDeleteTrue confession time -- I don't do this early in the morning. I'll usually do it after supper and then schedule it for the morning. Often I'll write several posts at one time and schedule them for the next days.