This is the fifth post in this series. We’ve already covered the men who’ve serve as managers, opening day starters, catchers and first basemen for the Mets over their 50 year history. Today, we’ll take a gander at the guys who’ve manned second for the Metropolitans over the years, in cardboard form, of course. Charlie […]
Tags: 1962 Topps, 1964 Topps, 1966 Topps, 1968 Topps, 1969 Topps, 1973 Topps, 1978 Topps, 1981 Fleer, 1983 Topps, 1986 Topps, 1987 Topps, 1988 Topps, 1990 Starline Long John Silvers, 1992 Leaf, 1993 Topps, 1996 Topps, 1997 Topps Finest, 1999 Topps, 2002 Donruss Originals, 2004 Fleer Platinum, 2006 Bowman Heritage, 2006 Topps, 2008 Topps, 2011 Topps Update, 2012 Topps, Brian Giles, Carlos Baerga, Charlie Neal, Chuck Hiller, Craig Brazell, Daniel Murphy, Danny Garcia, Doug Flynn, Edgardo Alfonzo, Felix Millan, Gregg Jefferies, Jeff Kent, Jerry Buchek, Jose Valentin, Jose Vizcaino, Justin Turner, Ken Boswell, Luis Castillo, Miguel Cairo, Phil Linz, Roberto Alomar, Ron Hunt, Tim Teufel, Wally Backman, Willie Randolph
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Many, many moons ago, I had written a post about some oddball Mets cards that I had acquired sometime during my first foray into card collection back when I was a youngster. That post elicited one comment from a mysterious “MrHaverkamp”. Mr. Haverkamp wrote: Do some searches on cards from the era called “Broders”. They […]
Tags: 1988 Rookies II, Broders, Gregg Jefferies, oddball
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We’re getting down to it folks. This is the start of the box of cards that Mark from Stats on the Back sent me. To break it down, the box contained exactly 206 cards, 1 of which was a double and 5 of which I happen to have. For all you calculator jockeys out there, […]
Tags: Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Roberts, Don Wilson, Dwight "Doc" Gooden, Gary Carter, George Foster, Gregg Jefferies, Hubie Brooks, Jerry Grote, junk wax, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Mitchell, mail day, Mets, Mookie Wilson, Ozzie Smith, Pat Zachry, Ron Darling, Steve Garvey, Tom Seaver, Wally Backman
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Thanks to the generosity of Beardy, I got the Obak bug. Well, maybe not that bad. I still don’t think I’m going to collect the set, but good ole Beardy sent me 3 out of the 4 Mets cards from the set, so I figured I might as well at least try and track down […]
Tags: 2009 Obak, Autographs, Gregg Jefferies, prospects
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So the second envelope came to me courtesy of everyone’s favorite Orioles fan, Beardy. A while back, Beardy had slapped a post up on his blog saying that since he wasn’t collecting the set, he waould be giving away base cards from the box of 2009 Tristar Obak that he busted. So I left a […]
Tags: 2009 Tristar Obak, Beardy, Gregg Jefferies, mail day, manilla envelope, Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver
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