Bowman Beaters - Boston Red Sox

Gonna try to blow the beaters out pretty quick. Don't have a lot of time to post right now so some eye candy is the way to go. Except these cards aren't really candy, they're more like eye Limburger cheese or pickled herring. Good, but an acquired taste. Here are the two Red Sox cards I snagged from the quarter box.

Pitcher Tom Brewer here. I'm digging the scoreboard in the background. Anyone know what stadium this is? The interesting part of this card is the bit that is stuck onto the top right corner. The bottom bit folds back to show that the card that it came from is actually 1955 Topps and not Bowman.

Outfielder Sam Mele is in a little better shape,  it just has a water mark instead of paper glues to its top corner. I like the flag in the background. This photo was taken in the same stadium as Brewer's card and if you put them side by side it looks like one big panoramic photo. With all the old cards I've looked at over the years you'd think I could pick out individual stadiums by now...

Interleague Far East Matchup

Time to put down the cards for a few hours and check out Kenshin Kawakami face off against Daisuke Matsuzaka in Fenway.

Nate McLouth just gave Kenshin some breathing room with a leadoff homer off Dice-K.

New Sox

The Red Sox just introduced new uniforms, just in time for the Holidays. A major element in them will seem very familiar...


Yep, Boston is reviving the old 'pair of socks' logo. They are even using the logo on their alternate uniform caps. Here's a gallery of the new uniforms featuring Jim Rice. I'm not 100% sure about those road unis, but hey, it's a good excuse to post an '87 Sammy Stewart card.

Card Of the Week 11/04/08

If I get this posted quick enough I can coincide it with the first votes cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. (rats, missed it) The subject of this week's COTW is obvious considering what's going on today.

Now anyone who has followed this blog knows I love the HELL out of the Upper Deck Presidential Predictors set. I love it so much I banned the company from the site for a month when they pulled the Hillary/Morganna pulled card/short print shenanigans. While I liked the original set I really liked the Series 2 set. Why? FIGHTS!!!!

Each of the 5 cards in the set (10 with the Hillary variations) depicted a famous baseball fight with the candidates in place of the brawling ballplayers. Here are the five, with corresponding real life girly slapfight.

PP-10 - Barrett vs. Pierzynski

Note the most egrigious example of the rewriting of history here since Greedo shot first. Barrett popped Pierzynski! Not the other way around! Mickeyfickey deserved it from all acounts too...

PP-11 - Varitek vs. A-Rod

I've always liked Varitek since he went to school at Georgia tech, but this image here ensures I'll be a fan forever.

PP-12 - Piniella vs. Ump

This is from his freakout against the Braves. You'll never catch Bobby in ejections Lou, so quit being a baby!

PP-14 Piazza vs. Clemens

Here's the biggie, the World Series moment between roid raging Clemens and Mike Piazza. The Hillary version of this card is my favorite, I absolutely adore the innocent "Who, ME!?!" look on her face.

None of these are the Card of the Week though. That honor goes to card PP-13, this one here:

A big ol' scrum between the Red Sox and Yankees. And it's in black & white too, so it's got to be from a long time ago back when the world was black & white. I'd love to tell you what game this fight was from, but problem is, I don't know. I've looked everywhere for a similar fight between Yankees and Red Sox players but they've been fighting for a long time now. Is it Powell vs. Cronin? Fisk vs. Piniella? Pepitone vs. Petrocelli? Fisk vs. Munson? (Fisk gets in a lot of fights, apparently) Or is it simply the timeless battle of Good vs. Evil? Many would say when talking about The Red Sox & Yankees or Democrats vs. Republicans it's a case of Evil vs. Evil, but that's neither here nor there. At any rate, this is a nice card of a crawling, scratching, shoving baseball sissy fight and it's a pretty good metaphor for the grueling Presidential campaign WHICH IS NOW THANKFULLY MERCIFULLY OVER. We can finally all have panic attacks about other things now. Upper Deck got the back right too:

IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!!!

Hopefully the credit crunch doesn't completely bork the entire economy no matter which one of these jokers gets into office or we'll all be burning our cards for heat this winter. I'd never burn this card though. Everyone knows Upper Deck is good eatin' cards. Lots of fiber in them suckers.
*burp*

Oh yeah folks, one more thing:

GET YER ASS OUT AND VOTE!!!!!!!!!

UPDATE: Early voting results are in!

Dixville Notch, New Hampshire:
Barack Obama - 15
John McCain - 6
Chipper Jones - 0?!

Hart's Location, New Hampshire:
Barack Obama - 17
John McCain - 10
Ron Paul - 2
Chipper Jones - 0!!!

Not one vote for Chipper Jones! DAMN YOU NEW HAMPSHIRE!!!!!!!!!!

Old Dirty Sox

Some even have holes in them. They don't stink though. Adam E. knows what to do, the rest of you out there sit back and enjoy some comfortable Sox. Yes, even the Rays fans. Your post will be up soon.

1951 Bowman

1955 Bowman

1952 Topps

1954 Topps

1956 Topps

1959 Topps

Hail To the Champs

The 2007 World Series Champion
Boston Red Sox

Sorry I didn't get this out sooner, but I forgot where I put the thing. In the next few weeks look for eleven cards from eleven Boston Red Sox players, one for each playoff victory. As always I take requests...