Card Collecting 23: Wikipedia Wednesday

I'm going to try this and see how it goes.  I'll pick a player I know something interesting about, look him up on Wikipedia, and see if there's enough other interesting info for a post. 

What I Knew:  Dude has a surgery named after him.  

His MLB Career:   September 1963 - May 1989.  288 -  231, 3.34 ERA.  Four-time All-Star.  

Wiki Info:  

-  He was his high school's valedictorian, but did not deliver a speech due to a stuttering problem.

-  Set the Terra Haute, Indiana record for points in a game in high school basketball and was recruited by Kentucky.

-  Pitched for the losing team in three Dodgers - Yankees World Series.   

-  His dentist was Mark McGwire's father.  

-  The oldest player in MLB in 1988 and 1989.

-  His son, Travis, fell from a third-floor window and was in a coma for 17 days before fully recovering.

-  His son, Taylor, was in the Broadway production of Les Miserables. 

-  His daughter, Tamara, married Chicago Bears long snapper Patrick Mannelly. 

1964 Topps 

1966 Topps

  

1976 Topps

  

1982 Donruss (with Ron Guidry)

  

1984 Topps

1986 Fleer

  

1988 Donruss 

That card at the top?  His Topps card from 1975, which he missed entirely while rehabbing after his famous surgery. 

     

Card Collecting 22: Incoming

So my dealer has opened up again on a limited basis - one customer at a time I think.  I had some store credit to spend and I was hoping for a certain basketball card I had seen a while back.  But he couldn't find it.  However, I did get a football card.

1974 Topps

It's #500, so it doesn't help my frankenset.  But it upgrades the Cowboys team page in my binder.  It's tough finding good players for them.

Then, on Wednesday, I received my winnings from Tim's Cardpocalypse give-away. 

2017 Donruss

An SN999 Cracked Ice insert that's shinier in real life.  My first racing card.  Might have to build a mini collection of just Hall of Famers and Danica.  #RacingSnob   

2000 Upper Deck

A Touch the Sky insert.  My first Kobe.  Yet, I have several Jordans.  I'm sure this has nothing to do with being old.  (sigh) 

1982 Donruss

What's better than Diamond Kings?  Pre-junk era Diamond Kings.  Also, a good way to avoid those nasty fake autos on 1982 Topps. 

2015 Topps Strata

  SN99 swatch card.  Had to go to Bing for the image; this is from CJ's Card shop.

1970 Topps

Listed as 6'4", 178 on the back.  LOL.  Eat something, Rollie.     

Useless Trivia:  Fingers played for the 1966 Modesto team that won the Advanced A California League title.  His teammates included Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Tony LaRussa, and Dave Duncan.  

So yeah - Tim hooked me up.  Here's a link to his blog:

https://lovecardboard.blogspot.com

Card Collecting 21: Give-Away Winner

So there was one entry.  I went to the random number generator and asked for a number between 1 and 1.  I got 1.  So that meant the first entry was the winner.   

Congratulations to The Diamond King.  You are the winner.  Please email me your mailing address to the email I provided in the contest post.  

Card Collecting 20: Ten On the Tenth (give-away closed)

#10

Time for a give-away.

Only people who have commented on this blog previously. U.S. addresses only.  Winner should email a mailing address to morganyud at protonmail dot com.   

To enter, just post a sentence or two about your favorite baseball player.  I'll use  a random number generator to select the winner.  Entry deadline - 24 hours after this post goes up.

These are the cards you'll be playing for:

1992 Score

1988 Topps

1992 Score

2000 Upper Deck Victory

1999 Pacific

1992 Fleer

1993 Stadium Club Ultra-Pro

1991 Donruss

1990 Topps

1992 Action Packed All-Star Gallery

Card Collecting 19: A Rose By Any Other Name

would hit as sweetly.



Now that we've dispensed with the weird intro, we can get to the purpose of this post: names.

  









   











The Doors' singer would have been a youngish 33 when the infielder made his MLB debut in 1977.  Just sayin'.

I never knew Dillinger went over to the other side.  In Canada no less.

Anyway, this isn't meant to be a definitive list.  I'm sure people can come up with other guys that should be on here.  Should I have included Steve Lake?  The eternal questions...

Card Collecting 18: Incoming

So I got two more cards from Brian (Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary):

   

I've mentioned my respect for Carew in a previous post.  I like the mountain background in this Fleer '81.

Neilson played over 1,000 games in the NHL.  The Golden Seals are a defunct team, which I like. They played at the Oakland - Alameda County Coliseum Arena, which is where I attended my first NBA game.

I made a TCDB trade with Thomas (UWBone24) and landed a few baseball cards:

   

  

 

An Ainge rookie card.  I like me some Diamond Kings.  Some people might consider these '83 cards junk era, but I consider 1985 the start of the junk era.

I bought some more repacks, so I'll just mention a few gets here:

   

  

   

The Howie and the Biggio are rookie cards.