DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A DEDICATED YANKEES SECTION IN THE FIFTY CENT BOX? THAT SECTION GOT CLEARED OUT TOO AND I WAS THE, UH, BENIFICIARY. APOLOGIES TO THE YANKEE HATERS, ESPECIALLY THE OLD-SCHOOL ONES
NO ONE CAN HATE DON BAYLOR THOUGH. I MEAN I GUESS YOU COULD, BUT WHY.
THESE ARE FROM 2004 UPPER DECK YANKEES CLASSICS, A SET I HAVE NO CARDS FROM SO THESE ARE ALL NEW TO ME. IT'S A DECENT COLLECTION OF CHARACTERS AT LEAST. THE MAIN REASON I HAVE NONE OF THESE CARDS AND NEVER REALLY CARED TO IS BECAUSE OF THESE:
THESE ARE 2003 UPPER DECK YANKEES SIGNATURE SERIES. A WHOLE ASS SET OF JUST YANKEES. TWO YEARS AFTER A WHOLE ASS SET OF JUST NEW YORK TEAMS. THIS SET WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY AWESOME THOUGH AS IT WAS ABSOLUTELY PACKED WITH GREAT AUTOGRAPH CARDS AND WAS FULL OF SIGNATURES OF GUYS WHO WERE WAY BETTER KNOWN ON OTHER TEAMS. LEW BURDETTE AND AL DOWNING HERE WERE INVOLVED IN PRETTY SIGNIFIGANT BRAVES MOMENTS, AND THIS SET IS WHERE I ULTIMATELY GOT MY BOBBY COX AUTOGRAPH
THE SET LOOKS BETTER, HAS A BETTER CHECKLIST AND BETTER AUTOGRAPHS THAN THE 2004 VERSION, WHICH LOOKS LIKE A CHEAP KNOCKOFF OF THIS SET WITH FEWER AUTOS AND UNWANTED PARALLELS. 2004 SEEMS TO BE AROUND THE TIME THE COOL STUFF OF THE EARLY 00'S STARTED TO DEVOLVE INTO MUCK ANYWAY AND TWO STRAIGHT YANKEES SETS WAS A BIT MUCH. I WOULD CONSIDER COLLECTING THIS 2003 VERSION. NOT INTERESTED AT ALL IN 2004
I WILL ALWAYS TAKE TOPPS PRISTINE CARDS THOUGH. THIS APPEARS TO BE THE TENTH BUCKY FUCKIN' IN THE BOX BUT I DON'T RECALL GETTING A GUIDRY YET. I DON'T EVEN COLLECT PRISTINE, I JUST LIKE TO HAZ THEM
2004 LEGENDARY CUTS I HAVE A WANTLIST FOR, BUT I HONESTLY DON'T NEED IT. THERE'S LIKE THREE OR FOUR OF THOSE OLD UD LEGENDS SETS I'D ACTUALLY LIKE TO FINISH. STUFF LIKE 1999 LEGENDS, 2001 70S, MAYBE ONE OF THE REALLY NICE SWEET SPOT CLASSIC SETS. THIS... EH, I'LL TAKE IT BUT I WON'T HUNT IT OUT. I HONESTLY DON'T REMEMBER IF I NEEDED LOU HERE OR NOT
AWWW YEAAAAH. I LOVE THESE 2020 TOPPS DECADES' BEST CARDS. I'VE ALREADY GOT A COUPLE IN THE BOX AND I WELCOME MORE, EVEN YANKEES. THIS WAS ONE OF THOSE INSERT SETS I WOULDN'T MIND COLLECTING, AT LEAST UNTIL I DISCOVERED THAT THE DAMN THING IS 100 CARDS IN SIZE. I'LL MERELY HOARD THEM FOR NOW
THE LAST YANKEE IN THE BATCH IS THIS BERNIE WILLIAMS ROOKIE (? I THINK) CARD IN AN ANCIENT PENNY SLEEVE THAT FEELS LIKE THE PLASTIC THAT IS WRAPPED AROUND NEW MATRESSES WHEN THEY ARE DELIVERED. IT'S EVEN GOT A 30 CENT PRICE TAG ON IT! I'M NOT SURE IF THIS WAS AN ACTUAL REJECT FROM THE FIFTY CENT BOX OR IF IT WAS SIMPLY IN A SLEEVE AND GOT MIXED IN SOMEHOW BUT IT'S AN INTERESTING END TO THE YANKEE PORTION OF THE FESTIVITIES. I CAN PROMISE THE NEXT BATCH WILL HAVE FEWER YANKEES, ALTHOUGH I HONESTLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS IN THERE AS THESE POSTS ARE TAKING WAY LONGER TO WRITE THAN I EXPECTED. IT WILL BE A SURPRISE TO US BOTH!
True facts: One of the first trading cards I ever had if not THE first card* was a 1978 Burger King card acquired in Toronto on a family trip. That card was of a Tiger and is long gone like my memories of that trip. If it even happened, I don't really know for sure because I was 5 and I can't even remember what I ate for lunch yesterday let alone confirm crap that happened almost 40 years ago. I do know I have this '78 Yankees BK team set because I found the scans in my draft folder. I thought I had posted it already but I forgot. I also forgot who sent me this many years ago, sorry and thanks. Man, it's a drag getting old.
Yeah I know. Yankees. Everyone hates the Yankees. Well I liked, like and will always like the Yankees. Up to the moment Don Mattingly retired at least. All subsequent Yankees teams suck and can go chew on tinfoil. Not crazy about Burger King either, The grease makes me feel oogy and screws up all the numbers in my blood tests. Oh boy did I like their onion rings when I was a kid though. Man, it's a drag getting old.
This set is cardboard onion rings. Mmmmmmmmmm.
*The official 'first card' is now a 1980 Topps Mike Schmidt. It can be seen in my first post. My goodness that was over a decade ago. Man, it's a drag getting old.
I still have some neet stuff left over from the Atlanta Sports Cards run to show off. They have a pretty cool row of dollar boxes there with a good mix of new and old, base and inserts. I've even found autographs in the dollar box before! I like scrounging through for oldies, which means poring though the "original 16" teams. Red Sox are good for oldies. So are the Phillies. I guess the Cubs are too, but I'll try the Cards or Dodgers or Indians first, thankyouverymuch. However, there is no dollar box oldies team like the New York Mickyficking Yankees.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I HATE the New York Yankees. A-Fraud, Cap'n Cheezburger and Tei$eira can all take a flying leap into the Hudson wearing cement bathing suits for all I care and I'm glad the Halos finally took one in the series yesterday. However, the Old York Yankees I love. The cut off point is somewhere around Mattingly but I can't pinpoint it exactly. '20s? '30's? Hells yes! '60s? '70s? Alllll Riiiiiight! '50s? NIRVANA! So I scrounged the dollar Yankee box looking for one old card and found three.
1964 Topps Young Aces
This is the Holy Grail of Infamous Pitcher cards. Al Downing? He gave up a certain home run that is somewhat well known. Jim Bouton? Well, if a baseball fan don't know Jim Bouton, then Dayf's gonna do some shoutin'. This also a pretty good demarcation line between the great Yankee Teams of the '50s and early '60s and the Bllleeeaaaargghhh Yankee teams of the late '60s and early '70s.
1969 Topps Mickey Mantle Checkist
If you have a chance... to get a vintage Mickey Mantle card... ANY vintage Mickey Mantle card... for a BUCK... YOU FREAKING DO IT.
Anyone else who wants to "just do it" ASC had two or three more of these in various stages of mouse nibblings in that box as well. Get to 'em!
1950 Bowman
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET A 1950 BOWMAN CARD FOR A BUCK?? Ok, so the corners are rounder than a mint 1951 Topps card and it's got a double cross crease going right through the dude's face, but 1950! Bowman! So who is this guy?
Fred Sanford
The "G" stands for "Gamer". Or "goat" perhaps, as the Yankee pitcher was mercilessly booed by Yankee fans who expected more from the righty after that $100,000 trade mentioned on the card back. Did you know Redd Foxx's real last name was Sanford? Did you also know that both Fred and Redd's first name was also John? Now ya do!
