Thought everybody might find these interesting. I went through my baseball cards and came across some noteworthy items.
Donruss All-Stars - 1986
These cards are 5'' x 3.5'', or twice the area of a standard baseball card. I have no idea where I got them, but I have several, including these:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/ozzie.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/murray.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/ripken.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mattingly.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/gwynn.jpg)
Topps Mini - 1986
Card size is 3'' x 2.25 inches. They're a little smaller than a business card. I have to tons of these, most of which are RBIers. I'm too lazy to scan them all, but here's a few:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_saber.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_raines.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_pettis.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_nryan.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_murphy.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_mcgee.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_hernandez.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_gooden.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_daevans.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_coleman.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_boggs.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/mini_sutton.jpg)
The last one of Don Sutton came from the box of twinkies or something. I don't really remember the box, but I remember cutting it out.
7-11 Slurpee Baseball Coins - 1985
These are little hologram coins, about 1.75'' in diameter. I have about a dozen, many of which feature three players in one (if you move the coin, the picture changes). Here's a few:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/coin_schmidt.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/coin_gooden.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Nails/cards/coin_brett.jpg)
i also had some of the Topps mini. Additionally, there were other mini-topps that were part of a sticker album set. i wonder if they still make that kind of stuff? the kids today are probably too busy with yu-gi-o.
i also had some of the big ass donruss - not diamond kings, but regular cards. they were only of good players, though. I think it was the 1984 or 1985 set, i remember I had a dave kingman and eddie murray for sure.
Those are pretty sweet, Nails. Nice to read a post from you again, by the way.
Keith Hernandez is so Keith Hernandez that he doesn't even need a helmet.
The big ones are '86 Donruss All-Stars, should have All-Star gAme stats on the back
The little Topps are '86 League Leaders
good stuff
didn't they do slurpee coins other years than just 1985?
i have some jiffy pop disc cards
i have the entire 1983 Donruss ' big' stars. I have the 85, 86, and 87 4x5 diamond king sets.
high, high quality shit.
'87 Donruss Opening Day Set was one of my favorites. I dug the tray.
I have a handfull of those cards. . . .brown border, right?
I have canseco and bo, for sure.
i used to collect the mothers cookies cards from the giants games. those were pretty cool. did other teams have those?
cubs had the unocal 76 cards. . . . . i got a team set off ebay. I think 7-11 might have done some cub cards in the late 80s.
Quote'87 Donruss Opening Day Set was one of my favorites. I dug the tray.
Fkn great set of cards and full of RBI'ers. Still have it around somewhere.
Another underrated set of cards back in the day was Topps Big.
(http://www.progressiveboink.com/jon/images/toppsbig/5.JPG)
Quote from: Bonny on 09/24/05, 02:18:47 PM
The big ones are '86 Donruss All-Stars, should have All-Star gAme stats on the back
Good call, Bonny. I was also looking through my Diamond Kings and the name must've stuck to my brain.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/mlb/09/02/baseball.cards.ap/
Interesting article
Topps and Upper Deck the only card companies granted MLB license for 2006.
i long for the days of topps / fleer / donruss
Sportflics
Score and UD were okay, but it was about that time (88/89) that baseball cards took a marked turn down the shitter.
MLB is gonna limit them to mainly guys on the active rosters, with occasional draft picks and prospects. Here recently a guys RC would have been the year he was drafted instead of his actual rookie season.
This year I had to go back a do some digging to find my Jeff Francoeur RCs.
good for them. maybe now my kid can enjoy baseball cards.
$1 a pack with 15 cards would be acceptable
Quote from: broiler on 09/24/05, 08:18:30 PM
i used to collect the mothers cookies cards from the giants games. those were pretty cool. did other teams have those?
Yeah, I have a bunch of A's team sets of those.
It's all about Leaf cards, beyatches...And I'm not talking about Ryan Leaf, either.
o-pee-chee
Quote from: Teddyballgame on 09/26/05, 12:43:30 PM
o-pee-chee
They were cool because they had stuff in Spanish.
I have some Pacific cards like that, also, including a Sandberg from his last season.
wasnt o-pee-chee canadian? my memory is fuzzy, but what i recall is that leaf/donruss/o-pee-chee was all the same company? ?
I thought that O-Pee-Chee has the Canadian version of Topps and Leaf was the Canadian version of Fleer?
And, which year/brand of cards had each player's "Hot and Cold" hitting zones on the back?
Quote from: fightonusc on 09/26/05, 02:42:57 PM
I thought that O-Pee-Chee has the Canadian version of Topps and Leaf was the Canadian version of Fleer?
And, which year/brand of cards had each player's "Hot and Cold" hitting zones on the back?
Close. You're right about O-Pee-Chee/Topps, but Leaf was the Canadian version of Donruss. Later, around 1990, Leaf had it's own production that was different that what the Donruss cards looked like
If we can't all agree that Score baseball cards were the worst, then we can't agree on anything...
I have about one billion of the original 1988 Score cards, they sucked. They alternated background colors, and all were hideous. Bought a good chunk at Woolworths at Woodfield Mall..
And Upper Deck was awesome, at least for the first couple of years they were out.
Quote from: Dryden on 09/26/05, 05:23:13 PM
And Upper Deck was awesome, at least for the first couple of years they were out.
They had the hologram so you knew it was high grade shit.
a friend of mine used to be into collecting error cards. i remember when he was trying to get every version of the billy ripkin fuck face card.
That must have been awfully tough. I hear they made very, very few billy ripkin fuck face cards.
i dont know if he ever got all of them. i remember him having like three versions of the card
Quote from: fightonusc on 09/26/05, 02:59:53 PM
If we can't all agree that Score baseball cards were the worst, then we can't agree on anything...
Score '91 were pretty good - they had lots of inserts ("Dream Team", "The Franchise", "Rifleman", etc., plus the Sandberg "Man of the Year" card). The inserts are generally worthless now, compared to the regular cards of players, but at the time, I thought they were awesome.
The favorite baseball card I found when recently sifting through my collection was the following of Billy "Mustache" Buckner:
(It's the card on the bottom-right -- couldn't find any better pictures of it online so I'll scan mine in this weekend if I remember)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/brekenhov/buck.jpg)
i'm starting a new thread. . . . thank you octomongolian!
i liked score when i was a kid - because it had the paragraphs where they gave you more info about the player. even though every card was amazingly upbeat, they would go on and on about how great Bill Schroeder was, even when he hit .156 that season.
Yeah, some cards later on started to skimp on the unimportant stuff like "information" and "stats" which is part of the reason why the industry went to shit.
Remember when Bowman made a comeback? For some reason they used larger cards and decided to put some confusion "stats versus each team" on the back instead of the normal stuff. Really shitty cards...
yeah, i was actually just thinking to myself "man, those bowman cards sucked!" for some reason they sold them at Michael's craft stores though, and they didn't have any other baseball cards. so i have a bunch due to pestering my mom to buy a pack when she would make us go to the store.
Quote from: fightonusc on 09/26/05, 02:42:57 PM
I thought that O-Pee-Chee has the Canadian version of Topps and Leaf was the Canadian version of Fleer?
And, which year/brand of cards had each player's "Hot and Cold" hitting zones on the back?
The 1987 fleer had the hot and cold zones on the back.
I remember that I treasured it when I got the 87 fleer update card of mark mcgwire and the same of reggie jackson. That was the first reggie in an A's jersey card that I ever got. I love that card!
(http://www.skiltech.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000018/87%20fleer2.jpg)
That is what the front and back of the 87 fleer looked like. The back is of a pitcher's card so it isn't hot and cold zones but rather a 'scout's rating of his stuff'.
(http://www.sportscardheroes.com/graphics/products/1987FleerUpdateGlossyBB.jpg)
Here is the mcgwire that I love (and some smo named maddux).
(http://mlb.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pMLB2-1477062reg.jpg)
The above is RBIer ellis burks with the hot and cold zones!
I remember those hot and cold zones, man that was a dumb idea...
Quote from: Gantry on 09/29/05, 12:55:33 PM
I remember those hot and cold zones, man that was a dumb idea...
Really? I liked them.
Really? I didn't think they were all too useful, but has been a dozen or so years since I've seen em...
I have the set of Phillies Burger King cards from 1980
i remember somehow having some trading cards with villians from "Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?" when I was a kid.
Yo! MTV Raps cards
Quote from: ultimate7 on 09/29/05, 12:57:48 PM
Quote from: Gantry on 09/29/05, 12:55:33 PM
I remember those hot and cold zones, man that was a dumb idea...
Really? I liked them.
yeah, I was a fan of these as well - and I thought they were fairly accurate
and those Bowman cards were terrible that first year - the pictures were all splotchy and grainy - and if I recall they weren't action shots, just players standing around looking goofy
Was wandering through the internets and I came across this (http://funnycards.bravehost.com/funny1.html) site of unusual baseball cards. Some good stuff, including some with RBI'ers, a few of which I present for you:
Tony Gwynn and Wade Boggs holding fishes:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/brekenhov/97gwynfish.jpg) ____ (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/brekenhov/87boggs.jpg)
Will Clark looking like a douchebag:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/brekenhov/97will.jpg)
Nolan Ryan beating the crap out of Robin Ventura:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/brekenhov/ryanventura.jpg)
Ripken reading a comic book:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/brekenhov/97ripken.jpg)
Chili after getting struck out by Dave Smith:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/brekenhov/1997scorechili.jpg)
Kirby Puckett with a bat as fat as he is:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/brekenhov/93kirby.jpg)
Also I know this isn't the Hatcher that's in RBI, but...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/brekenhov/hatcher.jpg)
I don't know why any of these images would have ever been published on baseball cards.
apparently they dont want to remote link... why don't you save and post again. the captions sound good, i wonder if the pictures are...
http://funnycards.bravehost.com/
There are only 3 pages. That's probably easier than Octo saving them all.
Quote from: Teddyballgame on 02/15/06, 04:14:17 PM
apparently they dont want to remote link... why don't you save and post again. the captions sound good, i wonder if the pictures are...
Really? They appear for me, probably because they're already in my cache... I'll see what I can do.
Edit: There. (Hopefully).
These are great Pics? BeeJ and Octo. Instead of driving in traffic, I'm going to add every single pic to the database before I go home. Stay tuned...
Wade Boggs is actually holding a rubber chicken...
Here is the first set - I added them to each player's appropriate RBIdb page. Lots of little cleanups along the way (rbi stats, links etc) so they are taking awhile.
(http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/8/8e/RyanFootball.jpg) (http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/6/65/Cansecoshovel.jpg)
(http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/d/d0/ClarkMac97.jpg) (http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/0/0a/KingClark.gif)
The next set:
(http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/7/78/McdowellCamera.jpg) (http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/1/18/GwynnFish.jpg)
(http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/2/2c/BoggsChicken.jpg) (http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/9/92/ClarkCowboy.jpg)
Set #3, this is taking longer than expected:
(http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/3/33/OzzieWizard.jpg) (http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/9/9c/ChiliBat.jpg)
(http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/0/03/RipkenComic.jpg) (http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/3/3f/GwynnBat.jpg)
Set #4, please kill me:
(http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/f/f2/PuckettBat.jpg) (http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/d/dd/PuckettShirtless.jpg)
(http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/c/c9/RyanVenturs.jpg) (http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/e/ed/ClemensAngry.jpg)
Does it really take that long to add pics?(?)
No, but many of the players never really had any work done. So I had to make sure they all had an intro paragraph, RBI Bio (with the appopriate templpate), external links section to baseball reference, etc. When the basics were there, then I could upload the pic and add a Pics? section...
If you look at the time of posting, the last four only took 11 minutes because all those players (Ryan, Puckett and Clemens) had all the appopriate sections completed. The previous sets took about 30 minutes each. That's why getting a sane, consistent db page for everyone will make future edits a breeze...
Also I was going to include the Clemens card as well, until I saw it said V.J. Lovero and thought it was just a lookalike.
Also I thought the Pucket titties would have made this thread NSFW.
THe VJ Lovero one is also on the Clark/McGwire pic, must be the photographer/artist or whoever. Puckett was still sexy in that photo (in fact I captioned it "Sexy Kirby, pre-lardass" on the db) but a recent one would be NSFW...
The VJ Lovero cards were part of an Upper Deck subset shot by Lovero. He was an SI photographer or something.
That for the info BeeJ... I said "artist" before because the Clark/McGwire pic almost looks like a painting, but it obviously wasn't:
(http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/d/d0/ClarkMac97.jpg)
Quote from: Gantry on 02/15/06, 08:09:06 PM
(http://dee-nee.com/wiki/images/d/d0/ClarkMac97.jpg)
If they were naked, they'd each have the exact same expressions on their faces.
They were naked, that's why I thought it wasn't real. They painted on uniforms...
that one of will clark on the rangers with cowboy boots and hat is terrible.
Quote from: BeeJay on 02/15/06, 04:18:43 PM
http://funnycards.bravehost.com/
There are only 3 pages. That's probably easier than Octo saving them all.
Hey guys,
My name is Bob Torba, Jr. I'm he site owner of the "Funny and Strange Baseball Cards". Thanks for taking the time to check it out. I hope you enjoy the funny baseball cards.
I also appreciate it that you didn't "remote link" the images from my server, as it would eat up my limited bandwidth. ;)
Here's the direct link to the site:
http://funnycards.bravehost.com/funny.html
Thanks,
Bob
:)
No problem Bob, I'll modify all the links to your site, thanks!
busted
Quote from: Nails on 02/19/06, 03:48:57 PM
busted
Quote from: NYJeterFan on 02/19/06, 02:46:18 PM
I also appreciate it that you didn't "remote link" the images from my server, as it would eat up my limited bandwidth. ;)
Nails, he was thanking us for NOT remote linking in the first place, not telling us to stop. I think Gantry may have misread this too.
Welcome to Dee-Nee in any event, NYJFan! You ever play any RBI?
Busted twice!
goddammit. crushed in my moment of glory.
I was wondering why I couldn't find any remote links when modifying the posts, it was because I can't read....
Quote from: OctogenarianFranco on 02/19/06, 03:55:52 PM
Quote from: Nails on 02/19/06, 03:48:57 PM
busted
Quote from: NYJeterFan on 02/19/06, 02:46:18 PM
I also appreciate it that you didn't "remote link" the images from my server, as it would eat up my limited bandwidth. ;)
Nails, he was thanking us for NOT remote linking in the first place, not telling us to stop. I think Gantry may have misread this too.
Correct. It looks like most, if not all of the images placed on this thread are hosted on photobucket. Anyway, if I recall, my host (bravehost.com) doesn't allow "hot linking" of images with the package deal I have with them. ::)
Quote
Welcome to Dee-Nee in any event, NYJFan! You ever play any RBI?
Thanks for the welcome. I don't think I've ever played RBI, sorry.
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YANKEES SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
aside from that, welcome.
Quote from: erhajj on 02/19/06, 08:31:29 PM
YANKEES SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
aside from that, welcome.
i agree. and change your aviator.
This is a regular issue card from the 1975 Topps set. It's one of my favorites, though, because it's the only card I know of where the position listed for the player is Pinch Runner.
(http://www.first-to-third.com/catalog/Oct22_36_tn.jpg)
Herb Washington played in 100 or so games without ever batting or playing the field. Only a pinch runner.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/washihe01.shtml
Holy crap, that's unbelievable, he really never has a PA or an inning at a postion, combine that with the fact that he stole 31 bases in 48 attempts, that's terrible, but he scored 29 runs in 1974. I never heard of this before, thanks EDF.
wow, I wonder if there are more instances of this happening
This is another great card from the standard set. 1976 Topps this time.
Kurt Bevacqua: Bazooka Bubble Blowing Champion
(http://www.padresnation.com/oldschool/kurtbevacquacard.JPG)
I have this card, as well as the Washington card.
On the back of this card, it has the tournament bracket.
HOF'er Johnny Bench was ousted by Bevacqua if memory serves. There were several players of note in the contest.
Herb Washington is my new hero.
what do those posts have to do with RBI?
anyway, that is a weird anomoly... that herb washington was probbaly a lot like chone figgins in the 2002 world champion season for the angels. he would basically just pinch run.... lots of speed.
My posts in this thread have had nothing to do with RBI. They have everything to do with my laziness and not starting another odd baseball card thread in anything goes
Quote from: Teddyballgame on 04/07/06, 10:58:04 AM
he would basically just pinch run.... lots of speed.
disco-stu dee-nee u '06?