A certain Red Sox fan blasphemed against the junk era, so here we are.
Junk Era All-Stars: Baseball
Catcher - Gary Carter
First Base - Frank Thomas
Second Base - Ryne Sandberg
Third Base - Mike Schmidt
Shortstop - Cal Ripken Jr.
Left Field - Rickey Henderson
Center Field - Ken Griffey Jr.
Right Field - Tony Gwynn
Designated Hitter - Barry Bonds
Starting Rotation:
Steve Carlton
Greg Maddux
Randy Johnson
Roger Clemens
Nolan Ryan
Bullpen:
Dennis Eckersley
Goose Gossage
Bruce Sutter
John Franco
Lee Smith
Bench:
Carlton Fisk
Roberto Alomar
George Brett
Barry Larkin
Kirby Puckett
Andre Dawson
There's jewels in the junk...era.
ReplyDeleteMe: "I don't mind junk wax."
ReplyDeleteBrendan: "Blasphemy!"
As someone (1) whose peak collecting years as a youth overlapped the junk wax era, (2) buys repacks and posts weekly poetry to junk wax, and (3) just this month showed off packs of junk wax he bought at a card shop - I'm genuinely puzzled why you called me out like that. It's all good though, we're cool. You got a blog post out of it, and in turn I have an idea for one as well. Happy Collecting!
Solid choices, although I do believe Alan Trammell belongs.
ReplyDeleteGood Job!
He was close.
DeleteA. There are plenty of Junk Wax Era products I'd love to open more than most of the baseball stuff Panini has produced the past 8 or 9 years. They might be overproduced, but like Tom pointed out... there are plenty of jewels in the junk.
ReplyDeleteB. Very solid lineup. Love that you included Gwynn and Rickey together in the outfield.
C. Received your two care packages yesterday. I've got a few other care packages sitting in front of it... but I hope to open them up and scan them in the next couple of weeks. Thanks in advance!