Ron Hunt was back healthy in 1966 and once again was named the Mets representative in the Mid-Summer Classic. Although he had a down year from his 1964 season, his .288 average and .356 on-base percentage still led the team. Sadly, this would prove to be his final season in Queens, as well as his […]
Tags: 1966 Topps, Ron Hunt
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1964 was the first time that the Mets had a player start the All-Star Game, and that player was Ron Hunt. Ron was coming off an excellent rookie year in 1963, when he came in second in Rookie of the Year voting to Pete Rose despite having very similar numbers. He followed it up was […]
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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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Thanksgiving is upon us, and I have to say, this is one of my favorite holidays of the year. It combines all the cool things (stuffing yourself on food and booze, watching foosball all day and hanging with family) but doesn’t have a lot of the stressful things involved in other holidays like Christmas (figuring […]
Tags: 1964 Topps Giants, 1970 Topps Posters, 1982 Davco, 1998 Zenith, 2007 Bowman Heritage, 2009 Allen & Ginter N43, Juan Pizzaro, Mickey Mantle, Mike Piazza, Milt Pappas, Ron Hunt, Tim Lincecum, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey
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This is the finale in the 3 blockbuster trades I made over the last week or two that did extensive damage to various wantlists. Chris from Project ’62 had contacted me letting me know that he recently came across a box of beat up vintage cards and offered me some Mets from the box along […]
Tags: 1962 Topps, 1964 Topps, 1965 Topps, 1966 Topps, 1969 Topps, 1969 Topps Deckle Edge, 1974 Topps, 1976 Topps, 1978 Topps, 2010 Topps Heritage, 2010 Topps Legendary Lineage, Bob Gibson, Cardboard Abuse, Choo Choo Coleman, David Wright, Denny McLain, Elio Chacon, Frank Howard, Gary Carter, Jerry Grote, Jerry Koosman, Len Randle, manager card, Mel Stottlemyer, Mets, Project '62, Ron Hunt, Ron Swoboda, team card, Yogi Berra
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Back around the holidays I had made my first checkoutmycards.com purchase. Shortly after that, I tried my luck with sportlots.com. Then I wrote a post comparing and contrasting the two experiences. My initial verdict was that Check Out My Cards seemed a bit more suited to scoring relics and refractors and autographs and fancy cards […]
Tags: 1962 Topps, 1963 Topps, 1964 Bazooka Stamps, 1964 Topps, 1965 Topps, 1965 Topps Embossed, 1966 Topps, 1967 Topps, 1968 Topps, Al Weis, Amado Samuel, Art Shamsky, Bart Shirley, Bill Wakefield, Bob Hendley, Bobby Klaus, Charlie Neal, Cleon Jones, Darrell Sutherland, Don Cardwell, Don Shaw, Duke Snoder, Ed Bressoud, Ed Kranepool, Ernie Bowman, George Altman, Gil Hodges, Greg Goossen, John Stephenson, Johnny Lewis, Rob Gardner, Ron Hunt, Ron Taylor, Roy McMillan, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw
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