Cards that make me happy

You get a nine pack today!  Each of these cards make me smile for different reasons.

Dream Team Robbie Alomar - He's leaping out of nowhere!  Literally nowhere!  For effect!
Pinnacle Tribute George Brett - This card is great.  No Brett, just the infamous bat.  It has a sinister feel to it.  I love it!
Dream Team Frank Thomas - Staged pose with a huge bat.  Hilarious.  Oh what, that's his normal bat?  Oh.
84 Fleer Larry McWilliams - Here's a cute idea, hold this card of yourself!  Maybe it'll take the focus off your funky Pirates hat.  And your mustache!
84 Fleer Jay Johnstone - Rain delay.  Time to get out my Budweiser head-brella!  Yay!
91 Topps Wade Boggs - Overused now, but this was one of the first good sky background card.  And since Boggsie was a fave of mine, I always loved this card.
83 Fleer Champ Summers - Born in 1946, that makes Champ 36 years old on this card.  I'm 40 and I'm sure glad I don't look that old!  Then again, he played in MLB and I'm a scrub...
84 Fleer Glenn Hubbard - Holy famous snake card batman!  We've all seen it, but I stll giggle each time I run across this one.
80 Topps Garry Maddox - The man is HAPPY!  The man is HAIRY!  The man is STYLISH!  I love it.  Makes me want to play baseball.

Thanks for the read!

Cards that make me smile #3

In today's edition of Cards that make me smile, you get a two-fer!!

These were my 2 favorite players growing up (I had a huge mancrush on high batting average).  This 2 card pairing will always hold a spot in my tiny Grinch heart, along with lots of the Fleer 'Super Special Star' subsets.  This subset was a neat-o view into players from different teams on the same card, a rarity in the 80's.

Anyways, these two couldn't look much different at first glance.  Carew is an African American, born in the Panama Canal Zone, convert to Judaism and soft spoken.  Boggs is a white, Nebraska born heavy drinking chicken lover.  But when you look at their hitting, they were both beasts!

And if you are too young to remember Carew's unique batting grip and stance, go do some research online.  The guy was great!

Cards that make me smile #2

Some cards you love because the player on the card was a great guy, a fun player who did things right.

Some cards you might like because the player on them is on a team that you don't remember him from, creating a jarring sensation of ...  'Whaaaat?'

And of course some cards you love because the big, manly ballplayer on it is struggling to keep from peeing his pants!

Luckily for me, this card has all three.

OK, I know Pedro isn't really practicing his bladder challenged base running, but seriously, who at Upper Deck green lighted that pose?  Hahahaha!

Check out previous Cards that Make Me Smile

Cards that make me smile #1

I have been trying really hard to organize my collection into the cards I want and the cards I want to get rid of.  I haven't been having much success.  One of my problems is that there is a 'middle class' of cards that I like, but that don't fit into the keeper part of my collection.  I've been making a stack of these cards and have decided to categorize them as Cards that make me smile.

I will be posting one every so often, maybe even once a day, and explaining exactly why they make me smile.  Hope you enjoy it!

Here is the 1st card that makes me smile...

I LOVED the Fleer Super Special Star subset when I was a kid, and this is a prime example of why.  Poor Mr. Baylor got a card for being hit by pitches!  It is simple and cryptic at the same time.  Just looking at the front, you probably would have no idea what this card is about at all.  Only on the back do you get the skinny on Big Fat Baylor's habit of stepping into pitches.  The pic of him is great!  You'd never see a pic of a ballplayer like that on other cards, but it fits this one perfectly.

Thanks to Don Baylor for his persistence and Fleer for making the card!!!  Enjoy the series.