Sunday, January 15, 2023

Five Random Cubs Cards

I've got 20,919 Cubs cards from 316 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.


1900s - 1970s: 1953 Bowman #42 Tommy Brown Bowman didn't exactly do much with card design in 1953, but I like that they used actual photographs instead of paintings.  The first Topps set with photographs didn't come until 1957.


1980s: 1987 Team Issued Bryan Dayette  Baseball Card Day in 1987 was July 29.  Wrigley Field was nearly full, but the crowd went home disappointed as the Expos crushed the Cubs 11-3.  Dayette came into the game in the eight inning as part of a double switch.  He grounded out to third in his only at bat.


1990s: 1998 Topps Diamondback Edition #92 Scott Servais The 1998 season was the last of Servais' four with the Cubs and it was his worst.  In fact, his averaged dropped each year after putting up a decent .286 in 1995.  By the end in 1998, it dropped to .222.


2000s: 2000 Fleer Ultra #201 Henry Rodriguez  Looks like Rodriguez is finishing up a nice running catch.

2010s: 2016 Bowman BCP #116 Pierce Johnson It's pretty cool that they got the ball centered and coming right at us.  Johnson was the Cubs first round draft pick in 2012 but his big league career is not what you'd have expected from a #1 pick.  

1 comment:

  1. O Henry!
    I never liked Servais. Don't like him as a manager either LOL.

    ReplyDelete