When I claimed the Cardinals - and Mark McGwire and Todd Stottlemyre - in the pack-per-day giveaway held at TribeCards, I had no idea just how many cards I'd wind up with, and how many different players. So that I can tag all of the sets and Cardinal players, I've broken this up into a series of who knows how many posts. Thanks for all the cards, David.
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Part II]
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1991 Topps
#262 Tim Jones
#734 Bryn Smith |
Here are Tim Jones and Bryn Smith sporting a look the cardinals have brought back this year, red caps on the road.
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1990 Score
#235 Scott Terry
#347 John Costello
#537 Greg Mathews
#556 Ken Dayley |
More road shots except for Scott Terry. These cards kind of remind me of the blue and red parallels modern Topps has.
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1991 Studio
#65 Storm Davis
#106 Mark McGwire |
Storm Davis arrived via the randomizer, and here's the final McGwire I received.
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1991 Studio
#232 Pedro Guerrero
#237 Lee Smith
#240 Todd Zeile |
Now here are 3 guys I remember well from when I first started watching baseball. I'd have traded you any other 1B, Closer, or 3B for these cards back then.
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1995 Topps
#167 Bret Wagner
CyberStats #173 Todd Zeile |
Bret Wagner - never heard of him. I enjoy how baseball-reference.com let's me immediately find out what happened to these unknown draft picks, though. Bret made it up to AA, then got traded to Oakland, but stayed at AA. The Todd Zeile card is a parallel set with a dumb name but an interesting concept. Topps jumped at the rare chance to simulate the rest of the 1994 Season after the strike, and put out the projected stats onto cards. Todd would have hit over 50% more doubles than he did in the real season (38 vs 25), but just under 37% more home runs (26 vs 19). I wonder why that is.
That's it for today, and there are still plenty more to go.
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