Odd baseball cards

[Gantry]

I remember those hot and cold zones, man that was a dumb idea...

[ultimate7]

I remember those hot and cold zones, man that was a dumb idea...

Really?  I liked them.

[Gantry]

Really?  I didn't think they were all too useful, but has been a dozen or so years since I've seen em...

[BDawk]

I have the set of Phillies Burger King cards from 1980

[TempoGL]

i remember somehow having some trading cards with villians from "Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?" when I was a kid. 

[Bonny]

Yo! MTV Raps cards

[Big Hath]

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

[OctoFranco]

Was wandering through the internets and I came across this 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:
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Will Clark looking like a douchebag:


Nolan Ryan beating the crap out of Robin Ventura:


Ripken reading a comic book:


Chili after getting struck out by Dave Smith:


Kirby Puckett with a bat as fat as he is:



Also I know this isn't the Hatcher that's in RBI, but...



I don't know why any of these images would have ever been published on baseball cards.

[TβG]

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...

[BeeJay]

http://funnycards.bravehost.com/

There are only 3 pages.  That's probably easier than Octo saving them all.

[OctoFranco]

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).

[Gantry]

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...

[Gerlost]

Wade Boggs is actually holding a rubber chicken...

[Gantry]

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. 

 
 

[Gantry]

The next set:

 
 

[Gantry]

Set #3, this is taking longer than expected:

 
 

[Gantry]

Set #4, please kill me:

 
 

[OctoFranco]

Does it really take that long to add pics?(?)

[Gantry]

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...

[OctoFranco]

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.