The conspiracy was so large back at the beginning stages of Tribe Cards From Outer Space that I didn't even have time to select correctly when the game was starting. I was supposed to pick the players whose cards would go automatically to me. In my case, that would be Dodgers.His missing the window gave me an opportunity to dive right in. I selected a few Dodgers, perhaps thinking that they'd be trade bait some day. Sure, I enjoy a good Dodger, and I got two of them. Here are the cards that David sent me.
But somehow, I missed the window for picking my players. Or I misread the directions. Whatever. Life saw to it that I'd be behind the entire bleeping contest that lasted the entire bleeping season.
When I realized my lapse, I scrambled to recover and choose whatever Dodgers were left.
Whenever I see Duke Snider in this pose, or Babe Ruth all wound up, I think that I could go to the plate and just push them over. Feet apart, boys.
2013 Gypsy Queen Duke Snider (card # 180) |
I would like to have seen Sandy pitch. I would like to have see the Dodgers manage him a bit better.
2013 Topps Chasing History insert Sandy Koufax (card # CH-50) |
2013 Topps Allen & Ginter Sandy Koufax (card # 10) |
Moving away from the Dodgers, I selected R.A. Dickey. Before he was with the Blue Jay and the Mets he was a UT Volunteer.
2012 Bowman R.A. Dickey (card # 160) |
2013 Topps R.A. Dickey (card # 151) |
2013 Topps Allen & Ginter R.A. Dickey (card # 151) |
2013 Gypsy Queen R.A. Dickey (card # 28) |
I guess I also selected some form of presidential / patriotic thing as well. Side note, Rutherford B. Hayes and I are related. A bit twisty, but one of my mom's kin married into the Hayes family. It is not a direct line, but good enough for me.
2008 Topps Historical Campaign Matchups Campaign '76 Hayes (card # HCM-1876) |
I so want Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to have played ball. I'd loved to seen him in a uniform. I think he would have been a catcher.
2006 Topps United States Constitution Charles Cotesworthy Pinckney (card # SC-CCP) |
So, that's part one of the Tribe Cards from Outer Space haul. More later.
I like the presidential cards.
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