THE TWELVE DAYS OF CARDMAS: LAUNDRY EDITION - DAY 5

FIIIIIIVE GOOOOOOLDEN RIIIIIINGS

JIM ONLY WON ONE RING BUT WHOS' COUNTING

THIS IS THE FIRST CARD IN THE LAUNDRY LIST THAT I DIDN'T ACTUALLY PULL FROM A PACK. I AM NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHERE I GOT IT, BUT I KNOW IT WASN'T FROM A PACK OF SWEET SPOT. I PICKED UP A COPY OF BALL FOUR AS AN IMPRESSIONABLE TEEN AT THE GOODWILL BOOK SALE AT NORTHLAKE MALL IN THE 80S AND REACHED ENLIGHTENMENT VERY SOON AFTER. I'VE READ IT MANY TIMES SINCE THEN AND I GET A LITTLE SAD WHEN JIM GETS TRADED TO HOUSTON EVERY TIME. BOUTON HAS A TON OF AUTOGRAPH CARDS BUT AS FAR AS I CAN TELL THIS IS HIS ONLY JERSEY CARD. I'M HAVING A HARD TIME EVEN FINDING THIS ONE ONLINE HOW SCARCE ARE THESE THINGS

WHY IN THE HECK IS PINKIE PIE IN THE TOPLOADER WITH BOUTON? THIS IS NOT A BIT, I PULLED THE CARD OUT OF MY RELIC BOX AND GOT HORSIED. I OFTEN SLIP AN EXTRA CARD INTO SUPER THICK RELIC TOPLOADERS TO KEEP THE CARD FROM SLIDING OUT BUT THIS IS AN ODD CHOICE EVEN FOR ME

THE NAME OF THIS RELIC SET IS PINSTRIPES, TO GO ALONG WITH A SHORT PRINTED YANKEES SUBSET. THE VAST MAJORITY OF JIM'S TRADING CARDS HAVE IN IN A YANKEES UNI, BUT THERE ARE A HANDFUL OF PILOTS CARDS. HOW COOL WOULD IT BE IF JIM HAD A PILOTS RELIC CARD? I'VE WISHED FOR A LICENSED BOUTON CARD IN A BRAVES UNIFORM FOR A VERY LONG TIME NOW, BUT IT HAS ALSO OCCURRED TO ME THAT THERE DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE A HOUSTON ASTROS BOUTON CARD EITHER. THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT'S EVEN CLOSE. IT SHOULD BE A LAW THAT EVERY TEAM A PLAYER IS WITH GETS AT LEAST ONE CARD WHERE THEY ARE WEARING THAT UNIFORM. BILLIONS OF DIFFERENT CARDS ARE PRINTED EVERY YEAR, WE CAN GET ONE JIM BOUTON CARD IN A 'STROS UNI. GET ON IT, FANATICS

THE CROWD IS STARTING TO FILL IN, IT'S REALLY GETTING FESTIVE UP IN HERE

Card Of the Week 6/30/08

Ok, you know the drill. Too busy, no time, here's card, text later. This post officially kicks off 2001 UD Legends week month on the Junkie. Check out that awesome stripe. Anyone know why the stripe is significant? You'll find out soon.


In the meantime, Since Bay Rat inexplicably asked for it in this post:

Shatner.

SINGS



Ah, I have smart readers. Somebody guessed. We have a "game used jersey" card of Hank Aaron with a Braves uniform that he never wore during his playing days. Here's Hank's Dressed to the Nines uniform page. Try to find a uni with red pinstripes in there. The Braves had blue pinstripes from 68-71, but the red ones weren't worn until 1976. Hank was wearing this uniform in '76 though. A quick recap:

Hank wearing the Blue Pinstripes

Larry McWilliams showing off the horrific red striped unis

Red Stripe on the jersey card

So Hank was retired by the time these uniforms were used by the Braves. Hank has been part of the Atlanta Braves' organization since forever, maybe he was wearing the uniform as a coach? According to MLB.com, he was never a coach for the Braves. But Tommie Aaron was... Oh dear lord, did I way overpay for a Tommie Aaron jersey card? If I did, so did everyone else who bought a 2001 Legends jersey of Aaron 'cause they all have the stripe.

So I overpaid for the card, had to hound the seller for almost a week to get him to send me an invoice before I finally get fed up and paid with (blech) PayPal, once it arrived it showed up in a penny sleeve with wrinkles around the swatch, and the swatch may be from a Tommie Aaron or Rowland Office or Adrian Devine jersey to boot. But it's HANK. And besides, it says "Hank Aaron game-used jersey right on the back. It's got Richard P. McWilliam's signature and everything. Upper Deck would never lie to me would they? O God... I better watch more Shatner to get my mind off this.