Baseball Card Sets – 1972 Topps
Every year Topps Baseball Cards changes their design. My baseball card collection covers ninety-five years, so each time I review my cards it’s like flipping through a massive Rolodex of colors, graphics, designs, paper stocks and styles. With this post I’m introducing a new category: Baseball Card Sets. I’m going
What’s Wrong With This Card Solved – Sammy Drake
The problems with Sammy Drake’s 1962 Topps card have been identified. Jimmy, our first respondent, recognized there was a problem with the batting record on the back of the card. The top, or “YEAR” row, gives Drake’s statistics for the 1961 season, when he played for Houston, which at the
What’s Wrong With This Card – Sammy Drake
Only twenty-five men could make the ignominious claim that they were members of the original New York Mets, and Sammy Drake was one of them. Drake was an infielder who started his professional career in the Negro American League with the Kansas City Monarchs in 1953. From there he was signed
What’s Wrong With This Card Solved – Hanley Ramirez
Several readers submitted partially correct answers in connection with this card, identifying the incorrect number 22 on Hanley Remirez’ jersey. Of course his correct jersey number is 2. However, the question posed in the post five weeks ago asked “can you identify what’s wrong with the card and explain the
What’s Wrong With This Card – Hanley Ramirez
The good people at Topps have been issuing cards with errors in them for a very long time. Below is an example of their new spin on these conversation starters. Rather than make the mistakes themselves, they simply catch others doing so and present them to a curious public. Here
What’s Wrong With This Card Solved – Lenny Barker
Several readers solved the riddle posed by this infamous card, which credited the wrong catcher. It was Catcher Ron Hassey who partnered with Lenny Barker to craft this perfect game, not Bo Diaz. Hassey enjoyed a fourteen-year big league career, logging most of his innings with the Cleveland Indians, Oakland
What’s Wrong With This Card – Lenny Barker
Even though I have issues with this 1982 Fleer card, I really like it. Here’s why: The card commemorates the perfect game thrown by Cleveland’s Lenny Barker on May 15, 1981. Perfect games, where twenty-seven players come to the plate to take their at bats without any of them getting on
What’s Wrong With This Card Solved – Lou Brock
The solution to “What’s Wrong With This Card # 3” eluded many readers. After initial, partially-correct answers, my friends Barry & Gary, of the outstanding Mets Musings Podcast, came up with the solution. This card wasn’t issued by Topps. It was put together by a fan of baseball cards. In short, the
What’s Wrong With This Card – Lou Brock
First, the card. This Lou Brock issue is among the sharpest 1971 Topps cards I’ve ever seen. Every collector I know has it in for baseball cards with black borders. Any nick, scrape, ding or crease is there for all to see, sabotaging the card’s appearance and value. Among the
What’s Wrong With This Card Solved – Chris Short
We have a winner, and once again it’s Gary, who correctly noted the picture of Chris Short was taken in the Polo Grounds, which was last used during the 1962 and 1963 seasons by the New York Mets. That’s what I find disturbing about this card. The 1969 Chris Short Topps baseball
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