The Mets had a lot of good pitchers in the late 60’s and early 70’s. There were guys like Seaver, Koosman, Ryan, McGraw, Gentry and Matlack. Jim McAndrew is not necessarily a name that you would include on that list, but when you’re talking about bad luck players, he might be on the top of […]
Tags: 1969 Topps, Jim McAndrew
Filed Under: Card of the Moment by slangon
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As I’m sure everyone knows by now, Mark from Stats on the Back became a proud papa recently. Being the good father that he is, he’s trying to finish up the 2010 Topps set so that his boy Parker can have his own birth year set. I was able to help them out with a […]
Tags: 1970 Topps, 1982 Topps, 1984 Topps, 1985 Topps, Dwight "Doc" Gooden, Hubie Brooks, Jim McAndrew, junk wax, Mets, Mookie Wilson, Stats on the Back
Filed Under: Trade by slangon
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Or as my mom calls it, St. Paddy’s Day. In honor of all the boisterous teens who were cutting school in order to go to the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade that were on my train this morning, preventing me from reading my newspaper in peace, and the drunken fools who will inevitably be on […]
Tags: 1951 Bowman, 1960 Topps, 1965 Topps, 1966 Topps, 1967 Topps, 1969 Topps, 1970 Topps, 1971 Topps, 1988 Rookies II, 2003 Topps 205, 2009 Topps Triple Threads, 2009 Tristar Obak, Bill Denehy, Billy O'Dell, Cal McLish, Connie Ryan, Custom Cards, Daniel Murphy, Danny McDevitt, Denny McLain, Dick Egan, Jim McAndrew, John McGraw, Johnny Lattner, Ken McMullen., Kevin McReynolds, Lindy McDaniel, Luis Tiant, Nolan Ryan, Roy McMillan, Sam McDowell, SlangKo Award Winners, SlangKo Heroes of the Diamond, Sonny Siebert, St. Patricks Day, T206, Tug McGraw
Filed Under: Weird by slangon
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So here’s the second half of the 1971 Topps Mets haul. Cool action shot, but I must say, possibly not the best choice of cropping. Which one is Bud Harrelson? Couldn’t you have zoomed in on just the play at second? I guess we need to give props to whoever stuck that signature over there. Otherwise […]
Tags: 1971 Topps, Bud Harrelson, Dan Frisella, Donn Clendenon, Duffy Dyer, Gary Gentry, Jerry Grote, Jerry Koosman, Jerry Robertson, Jim McAndrew, Mets, Ray Sadecki, team card
Filed Under: It Came from the 'Bay by slangon
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