Love it when you go pre-1985 (no matter how far back) as a fairly serious collector (50,000 cards dating from 1888 until today with a heavy emphasis on 1910-1978). Thanks to many trades with a middle-school History teacher in the late '70's, I came into a wealth of 1950-52 Bowmans. Still have most of them. No doubt you've featured the '51 Bowman Paul Richards (sorry if I missed it) - how can you not love creative license on a trading card? Up there in weirdness is the '76 Topps Kurt Bevaqua bubble gum champ card. The '51 Bowman Sibi Sisti is also great - for name recognition alone, but also for the wistful look of an era that many fans, like me, wish they could've witnessed first hand. Thank you for the classic takes.
Those are some classic cards you mention! I'm actually not sure if I've done anything with the Richards -- maybe on Twitter, but not sure about a post. That Sisti is great, and I wholly agree with your use of "wistful" and a wish to have sampled a bit of that era first-hand. Maybe we'll be able to "Quantum Leap" it some day! Thanks for the memories!
I always liked that Yaz card. Pretty sure that photo is from around 77-78. Early Donruss used a lot of photos from the late 70s, probably in anticipation of getting an MLB license.
Doesn't it seem weird that Topps would use a brown font color for the Blue Jays? It's like the Red Sox in yellow, but that's a thing too, I guess?
Creative license, I suppose. Or they just had some brown ink left over from the Padres cards.
Love it when you go pre-1985 (no matter how far back) as a fairly serious collector (50,000 cards dating from 1888 until today with a heavy emphasis on 1910-1978). Thanks to many trades with a middle-school History teacher in the late '70's, I came into a wealth of 1950-52 Bowmans. Still have most of them. No doubt you've featured the '51 Bowman Paul Richards (sorry if I missed it) - how can you not love creative license on a trading card? Up there in weirdness is the '76 Topps Kurt Bevaqua bubble gum champ card. The '51 Bowman Sibi Sisti is also great - for name recognition alone, but also for the wistful look of an era that many fans, like me, wish they could've witnessed first hand. Thank you for the classic takes.
Those are some classic cards you mention! I'm actually not sure if I've done anything with the Richards -- maybe on Twitter, but not sure about a post. That Sisti is great, and I wholly agree with your use of "wistful" and a wish to have sampled a bit of that era first-hand. Maybe we'll be able to "Quantum Leap" it some day! Thanks for the memories!
I love the simplicity and the photo illustration of the older cards.
Agreed. Some of the complicated designs started to lose me around 1991 or so. I've been old forever. lol
How about two cards from 1984 Fleer.... Glenn Hubbard and Jay Johnstone?
Definitely a couple of fun cards. The 1986 Fleer Mickey Hatcher is another in that same vein.
I always liked that Yaz card. Pretty sure that photo is from around 77-78. Early Donruss used a lot of photos from the late 70s, probably in anticipation of getting an MLB license.
Yep, the photo is in the oldie-but-a-goodie category.