Quarter Box Bounty - Part 6 '35 Goudey

Not much to say about these, this insert set is really the only thing I like about 2009 Goudey. I knocked 4 off my list at least. Most of the cards in the set have a theme to them, no matter how obtuse.

Red Soxes

Yankees

Oh goody. SportsCenter on cardboard.

Japanese Asian Players

Chien Ming Wang is from Taiwan, Upper Deck. I guess they all just look alike to  you, Upper Deck , I SUPPOSE. What, Hideki Matsui was busy?

Ummmm.....

What the hell is this? Random All-Stars? I must figure this out. Let's see... Total Douche, Smilin' Douche, Not a Douche, King Kamehameha Dreadlocked Super Douchey Douche. Damn, Jim Thome screws the Douche theme all up. Wait! 500 Home Runs! Well that's not bad at all! I need to quit being so cynical. I wonder if fans back in the '40s thought these same things about Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx and Mel Ott?

Quarter Box Bounty - Part 4 Goudey

Today kicked my butt and I'm ready to go to sleep, so I'm going to get through today's quarter box bounty as quick as possible so I can pass out. Yo Momma offers have been received and will be responded to once I wake up tomorrow and get some caffeine in me. Card budgets were tight in 2009 and Goudey more or less got left out tin the cold. I'll still pick up a few cards I like if I find 'em cheap though.

183 David Price RC

 

I'm pretty much convinced that Price will win 20 games sooner or later so if I see a rookie card cheap, I'ma buyin' it.

229 Mike Schmidt

SCHMIDTTY SHORT PRINT. The man is a powder blue ninja about to rip your heart right out of your chest and knock over the center field wall.

247 Nicklas Lidstrom

After the Kovy trade, the Thrashers were just about dead to me. Evander Kane is the only reason they will get one last chance. Make the playoffs and I'm still a fan. Miss the playoffs and I'm done with 'em forever. The Red Wings are on the short list of teams I will choose from to be "my team" if they blow another season.

149 Kurt Suzuki mini

Kurt is a pretty good young catcher. Not as good as McCann, but no Corky Miller either.

80 Roy Oswalt mini blue back

This is something I hope Upper Deck figures out this year. If you're going to have Donruss-like levels of parallels in your mini sets, AT LEAST MAKE THEM ONE PER PACK. Allen & Ginter figured this out in 2006, get with the times, Goudey.

161 Nate McLouth

WOO A BRAVE. Slightly before he became one, but still a Brave. I'm actually having a bit of a difficult time getting used to his new cards in a Braves uni.

25 Kevin Youkilis

I almost left Youk in the bargain box. Then I realized I was a damn fool and rescued him. Welcome to your new home, Youk! Meet your new cardboard friends! All 8 million of them! Ok, I don't have 8 million cards. It just seems that way sometimes.

Mini-bipped by gcrl

Here's another one card trade post for you, I've added a mini-bipping that coincidentally occured for Thorzul's amusement.

gcrl traded Mario of  Wax Heaven fame a whole bunch of Luis Polonia cards and in return got some Tristar Obak in return. I coveted the Gene Conley auto since I first saw it on Wax Heaven so I offered him a Maury Wills auto for it. Jim accepted the offer and sent the Obaks plus a whole mess of Braves in return. There are at least two other posts I can pull out of that box, but it's Sunday, I'm tired from work, I'm sick as a dog and I'm gonna be lazy and do the easy post.

Goudey 1935 4-in-1 Braves blue parallel

I'm not a big fan of '09 Goudey in general, but this one insert set makes up for the rest of the mediocrity of that set. I would have given Democratic Roadkill a healthy chunk of my set, but someone beat me to it and filled up his wantlist. The 4-in-1s I like though. The original 1935 Goudey set basically took images from the original 1933 Goudey set, shrunk them down and put them four to a card more or less grouped by teams. One of the Braves' cards from that set has Babe Ruth as one of the subjects, commemorating his brief stint with Boston to finish his career. This card here has a nice group of Braves (and ex-Braves) on the card.

Chipper Jones - Face of the Franchise, so recognizable as a Brave that if you put Babe Ruth in a red home alternate jersey, 99.9% of humanity thinks it's Chipper. The other .1% don't follow baseball and Babe Ruth is the only ballplayer they can think of. Chipper is nearing the end of his career, and there's a lot of worry in BravesLand that he might not be able to produce like he once did in '10. I think he can still be at the very least a 20 homer, 85 RBI .290 hitter for two or three more years,but I'm a homer.

Jeff Francouer - Mr. Natural, Hometown Hero, The Lilburn Flash, fan favorite, makes all the girlies swoon, chicks wearing #7 jerseys all over the ballpark and forcing their boyfirends to do the same. And he got traded to the Mets for a guy we DFA'd . How could this happen? Well, he forgot how to hit for one thing. Or just never knew how to in the first place. He's had some success up in New York, we'll see this year if he can build on that or if the clock strikes 12 and he turns back into a pumpkin.

Kelly Johnson - The guy sure knows how to hit, it was finding a position for him that was the problem. The Braves stuck him out in left field for a season, then moved him to second base when Marcus Giles was abducted by aliens. He was a good, patient (if not too patient) hitter but when the injury big bit in 2009, Martin Prado stepped in and Wally Pipped him all the way to Arizona.

Brian McCann - Chipper's heir apparant as Mr. Brave, the best catcher in the National League, an All-Star every full full season in the bigs, quite a handsome devil, always kind to animals, a gentleman and a scholar, flosses twice a day, loves his mother and a hell of a dancer.

Not a bad lineup for a Braves fan like myself. gcrl also inadvertantly mini-bipped me in the package:

There were only three Glavines and Jim didn't insult my manhood while bipping me as is the custom, but I thought it was notable. Thanks Jim!

Heavyweight Retro Championship of the World: Card 5

The whole "Every celebrity on the planet dying all at the same time" thing has got my mind messed up so I took most of the weekend off. Time to get back on track with card #5.

#1 Heritage Young Hill Stars

This is a pretty cool card, although I'm almost certain James Shields is pasted in. The original Young Hill Stars card from 1960 featured Jack Fisher, Milt Pappas and Jerry Walker.

4 points

#2 Heritage High Joakim Soria

Forget the fact that this guy has his own trading card set, The best part about this card is on the back:

Cha cha cha!

2 points

#3 Goudey Mark Teahen

Ordinarily the sheer blueness of this card would be good for a high score, but poor Mark got caught up in a bad matchup. Story of this career, really.

1 point

fifth round, yadda yadda, scores...

2009 Heritage 12 - 2009 Goudey 11 - 2008 Heritage High Series 11.

Heavyweight Retro Championship of the World - Card 4

I'm already a day behind on this. Upper Deck's double barrel rack pack give them an advanage on this one.

#1 Ron Santo Ryne Sandberg Derek Lee Aramis Ramirez 4-in-1 Red

Since the Goudey racks are split into two packs of 8 cards each, it's possible to pull an insert or short print out of either half. This Goudey rack has a Cubs 4-in-1 '35 Goudey insert in it. I actually like these cards better than the base set. Not entirely sure why there are four different color variations when there was only red and blue in the original set (oh, yeah, now I remember, more parallels means soaking set collectors for more money) but I don't mind mixing and matching so no big deal. Normally I loathe all things Cub on this blog, but I've got nothing against Santo or Sandberg.

4 points

#2 Heritage Chad Tracy

I greatly appreciate the beard/no beard photo variations on this card. I also like the pinky-orange peach color to the bottom color bar. I'm not fond of pink cards, but I like peach. Go figure. The real genius of this card is on the back:

Chad's charity is responsible for teaching Ed Norton how to read. Nobody gets this reference, do they. You're all thinking about Fight Club now. Sigh, no one studies the classics anymore.

2 points

#3 Heritage High Miguel Tejada

Miggy should have beat Tracy, but I can't see Tejada in any uniform other than A's green without feeling uneasy. Besides, it was just discovered that the copyright was falsified and that this card is from 2006 and not 2008. I feel obligated to give equal time to Tejada's cartoon, but I can't think of a joke that isn't rude.

You guys make up your own captions on this one. After the MJ stuff VOTC sent me yesterday I'm sure there will be some good ones.

1 point

A quarter way through the battle, there are the standings:

2009 Goudey 10 - 2008 Heritage High Series 9 - 2009 Heritage 8.

Heavyweight Retro Championship of the World - Card 3

I have to be diligent about this and post at least one round a day or else I'll be finishing this up around Halloween.

#1 Heritage High Series Dioner Navarro

Catcher's mask and helmet perched upon a regular cap while Dioner sport sthe cool shades and a bad ass look on his face. If this card had come out in 1959 it would have made many straight-laced Eisenhower Era collectors wet their britches.

5 points

#2 Goudey Garret Anderson

Ok, so Braves don't always automatically win. Even if Garret was in a Braves uni and was living up to the absurdly high expectations Braves fans had for an end-of-career stopgap corner outfielder he wouldn't have beat bad-ass Dioner.

3 points

#3 Heritage Brandon Lyon

This one's pretty meh all around. There's a building a I guess. And Brandon's got a goatee. And it's red and blue. Yawn.

1 point

At the end of three:

2008 Heritage High Series 8 - 2009 Heritage 6 - 2009 Goudey 6.

(Don't Forget! Contest!)

Heavyweight Retro Championship of the World: Card 2

Note: Don't forget the contest... You have about a day to get in on it.

Goudey makes a comeback in the second round, and at least two bloggers may make snide remarks on my choice. They won't be that far off the mark to be honest, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

#1 Goudey James Parr

I'm the judge so I get to be biased. Braves always win. Even if they're a Gwinnett Brave. Besides, the card is not disgusting like the Guillen and you can read the BEACH patch on Parr's uniform.

3 points

(tie)#2 Heritage Khalil Greene

Anyone else remember when he was on the wrapper of every Draft Pick set? Now he's on his second franchise, playing a new position and is suffering from an anxiety disorder. Prospecting is a fickle business. I don't understand why Khalil's color photo isn't a portrait. That's the point of '60 Topps, you get an extreme close up in color and a tiny action shot in black & white.

1 point

(tie)#2 Heritage High Joe Crede

You know, in the '50s and early '60s pink was a very manly color often worn by men completely comfortable with their sexuality. Then the '80s happened and someone wrote a book about quiche and women started wearing huge shoulder pads and everyone got all uptight about everything and now pink is all messed up in the heads of the poor souls that had to grow up during that nightmarish decade. Poor Joe now has to suffer the brunt of Pink Bigotry. The blue tarp in the background don't help matters at all.

1 point

Two rounds in the books:

2009 Heritage 5 - 2008 Heritage High Series 3 - 2009 Goudey 3.

Heavyweight Retro Championship of the World: Card 1

Ok, let's get this party started. You guys voted that the next pack war be between jumbo packs of Retro products Heritage & Goudey. I threw a curveball at ya and added a jumbo of '08 Heritage High series. Let's see which retro product reigns supreme! (at least until Allen & Ginter comes out)

The Rules: I will be matching up each card as they come out of the pack. I'll rank them in order of who I think is the best and assign 0-5 points to each card. Whichever pack has the highest number of points will be teh winnah. If I am unable to determine the winner of a certain round I'll have you guys decide in the comments.

Let'e start 'er up... Card 1:

#1 09 Heritage Cole Hamels

The man won the NLCS and the World Series MVPs. Not a bad pitcher at all. I like th fact that Topps was able to stay with the '60 Topps mugshot motif and still get an interesting background with the stadium press boxes over his shoulder.

4 points

#2 08 Heritage High Ryan Ludwick

Quad-A player who finally broke through last year. Nice posed swing as he stares off into the distance gazing at his FUTURE. The spring training scoreboard and ads don't hurt neither.

2 points

#4 09 Goudey Carlos Guillen

This card is hideous. I totally understand Carlos isn't Brad Pitt or anything, but did Upper Deck really need to make him look like Quasimodo wearing pajamas? Ugh, this card disgusts me.

0 points

After one round:

2009 Heritage 4 - 2008 Heritage High Series 2 - 2009 Goudey 0.

Jackie vs. Mickey: Teh Winnar

Chris Carpenter won in a rout so as promised, I picked up a pack of series 2 with Robinson on the wrapper when I stopped by the card shop for some bubble mailers today. Here are the results:

453 Javier Valentin

Full catcher's gear throwin out a RUNNER! Awwww yeah.

520 Adrian Gonzalez

Does he have a nickname? 22 homers in two months you need a nickname. Gonzo perhaps? A-Gon? Skippy? Yeah, that sounds right. Skippy with the mighty cut.

583 Francisco Cordero

The joys of cropping. I think part of my obsession with this is that I'm becoming an old geezer very quickly and the eyes (which were never good to begin with) are starting to go.

607 Jarrod Washburn
636 Armando Galarraga
Not interesting enough for scans.

416 Josh Whitesell RC

The red jersey and border and orange dirt make this a nifty looking card. Is he playing on Mars or something? Did the bag get swiped by a Mars rover?

606 Nick Johnson black border #17/58

These black border cards are nifty. I like the sparkly on the border. I've got an autographed minor league ball of Nick in my collection for some reason. It seemed like a good deal at the time.

TTT48 Blech.
536 Khalil Greene
Boring

325 Jim Thome

Posed shot of a 500 home run hitter! Do this more often Topps!

595 Vernon Wells

Crash imminent!

Pretty good pack, it was the last Jackie in the box too. Lots of David Wright packs in the box for some unknown reason.

As for the next war, 17 of you wanted to see Jumbo packs of Topps and UD, 5 of you wanted to see a 1989 Topps 100 card pack fight with a First Edition basketball blaster, 7 preverts wanted me to make love not war and the winner with 25 votes was...

2009 Topps Heritage Jumbo

vs. 2009 Upper Deck Goudey Jumbo

But wait, there's more! A third party has jumped into the ring!!!

2008 Topps Baseball Updates and Highlights presents 2009 Topps Heritage High Number Series with Three Completely Superfluous Updates and Highlights Cards Per Jumbo Pack!!! AND GUUUUUM!!!!!111ONE

A three way battle for Retro Supremacy! I think the High Series pack may have snuck in a FOREIGN OBJECT! Stay tuned for this one folks! But don't hold your breath, I have 46 cards to scan for this thing. I'll start this puppy by Monday at the latest.

Wal Mart Goudey Rip Off Pack

Found this in a gravity feed box at Wal Mart. It was friendly and small and cute so I let it hop in my cart. Since $5 rack packs with 16 cards were right next to it and Target has 8 card packs for $3, I guessed a mini pack of Goudey would cost a couple of bucks, right?

WRONG. $2.97. For five cards. What a gyp. Who does Upper Deck think they are, Donruss? I guess they took my complaints about 8 card hobby packs costing two bucks more than 8 card retail packs and responded by cutting the number of cards in the retail pack. The damage is done, here's what was in the pack.

No.15 Adam Jones

Why do I keep wanting to call him Pac Man? I should know better by now.

No.257 Jerry West Sport Royalty SP

This is my first Sport Royalty card for the '09 set. Jerry West is cool, but why the black and white photo?

No.14 Kelly Johnson blue mini

Now I'm feeling kind of stupid for complaining. Results may not be typical. One thing I just noticed, the color of the Goudey bar at the bottom is the same as the ink color on the back. That's convenient.

No.101 Rafael Furcal

Furcal's not hitting too well this year so far is he? Aaahh, schadenfreude.

No.155 Ryan Howard

Cool, a real live superstar. Ryan is on the wrapper of the Series Two Topps pack I should have bought instead of this. I like the blue Phillies cap.

Ok, so that pack was pretty good, but the 5 card packs are still a rip off. Caveat emptor, kiddos.

2009 Goudey retail pack video

I've got 5 meetings scheduled for this afternoon so enjoy the viddy, it's all you're getting today.




For those who can't stand that awful hum in the audio on my videos (HOW DO I GET RID OF THAT??!?) here are details from the base cards from the pack organized from decent looking to most dorkiest.









The fugly, it burns!