1980 – Brock & Yaz 1979 Highlights
Now this is a highlight card. Not one of those modern manufactured highlight or year in review insert cards, this card celebrates two legends from two of baseball’s most storied franchises eclipsing the 3000 hit mark in the same year. The card is appropriately #1 in this set and it certainly is fitting that the Brock photo appears to be at Wrigley.
A by product of Jawdy’s Basement Heroes January Break was a trade with Ernest at Blue Heaven: a stack of Cardinals for a stack of Dodgers. I returned from a trip to Guadalajara to find Blue Heaven’s very generous package. He sent a mix of 80’s & 90’s Cardinals, a smattering of vintage cards and then some really, really vintage cards.
Isaac loved the Ozzies, especially the action shots.
Two current Cardinals. Ankiel’s story truly is amazing and I’m reminded of it every time I see his older cards as a Pitcher.
A few vintage cards… plus four 1972 Topps not pictured.
Three interesting Victorian cards from the 1800’s. Check out these links from Blue Heaven for more info: Victorian Baseball Cards, Merchant’s Gargling Oil Cards. Click on the cards for larger images. I doubt we’ll go search these out but, like Japanese cards, they’re fun and interesting.
And finally a pin for Isaac’s jean jacket.
Thanks again to Blue Heaven for a great trade. I only hope the cards we sent in return came close in offering the sheer enjoyment with these cards. Check out his blog for Dodgers info and vintage baseball card and memorabilia information. It truly is a great resource and has pointed us to several items of note we would not have known about.
Another pair from the vintage haul, this time Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm and our first vintage Stan Musial card. That’s him in the back row, second from the left.
- Junior waving goodbye in a White Sox uni is wrong
- Yadier Molina will not be #660 this year
- Glad to see Turkey Red back. The two we have picture modern stadiums
in the background.
- Are we losing a card or gaining a checklist?
- They couldn't find a better shot of Pujols for the MVP card? Really?
- Photography overall is much nicer this year.
- The player cards will give Isaac even more reasons to like Topps
Town. Look for gold parallels in addition to regular TT cards.
Another day, another package for Isaac. Dave from Fielder’s Choice sent a package in exchange for some 2008 Heritage High and some U & H’s. Here are Isaac’s favorites:
David Kopp – 2008 Bowman Chrome Auto. Never heard of him so I told Isaac to look him up in his Cardinals prospects book. He said, without looking, that he wasn’t in the book. I told him to check the book… sure enough he wasn’t listed. The kid has a memory. He loves autographs since the Winter Warmup.
Isaac loves coming home and seeing a package in the mail. I was out of the country last week and it was nice hearing how excited he was each evening as he told me what state the package came from, opened it up, and told me about each card inside. It felt like we were opening the package up together… almost like I was home.
This was our usual trade: a stack of your favorite team for a stack of Cardinals. This time, All Tribe Baseball sent a box of Cardinals our way along with a nice note about collecting with his sons for 16 – 17 years. He sent a ton of nice cards. These are Isaac’s favorites.
Brian Barton – 2007 UD Timeline. More on one of Isaac’s favorite players here.
Two Musial 2004 Diamond King Variants
Two Brocks & one Gibson
Grady Sizemore – 2008 X. Not sure when he became a fan of Sizemore, not to mention Ryan Braun, but he’s started pages for both of them in his Favorite Players binder.
Thanks again, Jack. We’ve filled up the box with Indians and will be sending them tomorrow!
I decided to treat Isaac to a slot on Jawdy’s January 2008 Upper Deck Heroes case break to see if we couldn’t get lucky and get the Cardinals randomly. At the very least, I hoped he’d get a decent team for cards to trade for Cardinals. We didn’t get the Cards but I thought we’d did pretty well pulling the Mets. I was wrong. We got five numbered parallels and two shared hits. The good news is that we shared one hit, a Carlton / Santana parallel, with Dave at Fielder’s Choice and the other, a Jeter / Reyes dual relic, with Ernest at Blue Heaven. I gotta say that he REALLY cleaned up having both the Yankees and Red Sox in the break.
Dave was nice enough to let us have the Carlton as part of an ongoing trade while Ernest let Isaac keep the Jeter in exchange for some modern Dodger cards. In addition, we worked out a mass Dodgers – Cardinals trade that Isaac was thrilled with, more on that later.
Here are the non-base cards from the break. If any Mets fans are interested in these or any Mets base cards from this set let us know and we’ll work something out.
Thanks again to Jawdy, Dave & Ernest for making this break and resulting trades so enjoyable for the little guy.
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