Odd baseball cards

[fightonusc]

It's all about Leaf cards, beyatches...And I'm not talking about Ryan Leaf, either.

[TβG]

o-pee-chee

[BeefMaster]

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.

[TβG]

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? ?

[fightonusc]

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?

[ericdavisfan]

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

[fightonusc]

If we can't all agree that Score baseball cards were the worst, then we can't agree on anything...

[Gantry]

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..

[Dryden]

And Upper Deck was awesome, at least for the first couple of years they were out.

[fknmclane]

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.

[broiler]

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.

[Attezzobal]

That must have been awfully tough. I hear they made very, very few billy ripkin fuck face cards.

[broiler]

i dont know if he ever got all of them.  i remember him having like three versions of the card

[BeefMaster]

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.

[OctoFranco]

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)

[RedBarron]

i'm starting a new thread. . . . thank you octomongolian!

[TempoGL]

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.

[Gantry]

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...

[TempoGL]

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.

[erhajj]

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!



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'.



Here is the mcgwire that I love (and some smo named maddux).



The above is RBIer ellis burks with the hot and cold zones!