BATTER UP!

[Fading Fast]

The Goudey people had done this sort of thing earlier with other card sets dealing with Indian chiefs and zoo animals, so it was pretty much standard operating procedure for them by 1933. They managed to stay in business until 1962, although they got out of the card business in the late 1940s, and the story is that the company was in such dire straits by the end that they burned all their back stock of trading cards in the factory furnace just to heat the place. So perhaps there was some poetic justice at work...

Unfortunately, justice doesn't always prevail, but it looks like it did this time. What a scuzzy "business" model they had.

Not so egregiously as Goudey, but when I was growing up, Topps clearly limited the number of big-name cards relative to the others. You had to buy a lot of packs chockablock with Joe Schlubs to get one Tom Seaver.

 

[ChiTownScion]

...and the Sox ain't got nothing resting beneath home at the Cell, or whatever that place is called now. They keep selling the stadium brand over there.

If the quality of baseball at either is mediocre, my rule of thumb is, Wrigley has the prettier girls, and Comiskey/ the Cell/ That South Side Place has better food.

 

[Harp]

... Wrigley has the prettier girls, and Comiskey/ the Cell/ That South Side Place has better food.

Wedding receptions have been held at the Cell, or whateveritscallednow, and my sister once organized her firm's annual party there.
Being the only Cubs fan prodigal black sheep of the family whom no one understands, I absolutely resolutely refuse to step inside the Cell, or whateveritscallednow.

But then again, half those idiot aldermen in the city council are rabid Sox.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I also enjoyed collecting "All-Ugly Team" cards.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Definitely some ugly dudes in there!

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Just a sampling of my albums:
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These beauties are treasured just as much as my ’52 Topps!
Unknowingly... I collected the 1st printing with all the errors and for some reason I
made it a point to have only the cards without the MLB logo on the back.
I have a soft spot for the “colorized” versions. as well. They may not be
valuable, but I wouldn’t trade them at all.

Those are beauts...I've got those, too. And, I'm a fan of the colored/tinted cards, also....they are pretty cool.

Rob

 

[belfastboy]

Those are beauts...I've got those, too. And, I'm a fan of the colored/tinted cards, also....they are pretty cool.

Rob

In 1969 I travelled to SF on Christmas break. Late one night I pulled I to a modest motel outside Monterray (sp). It was after 11pm and as I checked in my eyes found the framed pics of Don Mossi in his Tigers uni....i then realized I was staying in Don Mossi's motel. One of my childhood heroes was up late checking in a guy like me late at night in a very very modest motel. It just did not fit my picture of how it should be.

 

[2jakes]

The huge wood box TV set, Davy Crockett, Elvis, penny bubble-gum baseball cards and baseball players.
Unless you were there, I’m not sure I could convince you how big these events and things were.
At least it was for this kid growing up in that time period.

 

[belfastboy]

I also enjoyed collecting "All-Ugly Team" cards.

I had all these cards except for the Jim Beauchamp. Mossi was better looking in person. He should have punched the photographer!

 

[LizzieMaine]

I always thought Roger Craig's problem was that his hair was too tight.

 

[2jakes]

I always thought Roger Craig's problem was that his hair was too tight.

Nah....it was his pants!

" Too tight!"

 

[ChiTownScion]

Wedding receptions have been held at the Cell, or whateveritscallednow, and my sister once organized her firm's annual party there.
Being the only Cubs fan prodigal black sheep of the family whom no one understands, I absolutely resolutely refuse to step inside the Cell, or whateveritscallednow.

But then again, half those idiot aldermen in the city council are rabid Sox.

I favor the Cubs, but I'm not tribal about it. I usually go to the Cell to see a game with Red Sox Nation Chicago when Boston's in town. They're usually pretty friendly affairs: many of us have friends who support the South Side Team and bring them along. I enjoy the friendly banter and buying beers for our "opponents" more than the usual trash talk- filled Crosstown Series events. Now, if only we could get the organist to play, "Sweet Caroline" for us...

 

[LizzieMaine]

Most Red Sox fans have always been kindly disposed toward the White Sox -- except during 1967, but hey, Stanky started it. Aside from that, there was, I think, a certain shrared understanding of what it meant to suffer for a very long time. I especially enjoyed them during the Dick Allen-Wilbur Wood-Chuck Tanner days of the early '70s. Wood always looked like some guy they'd flushed out of the nearest saloon and put in a uniform hoping nobody would notice.

On behalf of all Bosox fans though, I'm sorry you had to end up with Hawk Harrelson. He honestly wasn't as obnoxious a broadcaster when we had him -- his commercials with Jim Rice for Colonial Meats were amusing and entertaining in a "watching a dog ride a bicycle" kind of way.

 

[2jakes]

 

[Ghostsoldier]

"Yogi-isms"....between him and the "Old Perfessor" Casey Stengel, there was never a dull moment.

Not too many guys left in MLB like those two, if at all.

Rob

 

[2jakes]

The Glory of Their Times -- Special Edition

 

[LizzieMaine]

Today is one of the most infamous dates in New England baseball history -- fifty years ago tonight, Jack Hamilton of the California Angels nailed Tony Conigliaro of the Red Sox in his left cheekbone with a rising inside fastball. Every New Englander who was aware of baseball at that moment -- which is to say, every New Englander who was aware of anything at that moment -- remembers where they were.

And in a chilling bit of coincidence, the photo used on Jack Hamilton's 1968 baseball card was taken on the sidelines at Fenway Park on the very night that, about two hours later, Hamilton would throw the near-fatal pitch.

Hamilton remained in the major leagues for two more seasons, but was badly shaken by the incident. After Conigliaro, he never hit another batter.

 

[2jakes]

 

[Ghostsoldier]

The Glory of Their Times -- Special Edition

I've got a couple of print versions of this, and the audio book. Good stuff.

Rob

 

[2jakes]

I've got a couple of print versions of this, and the audio book. Good stuff.

Rob

Lizzie earlier in this thread mentioned the title of this book and I realized that I
have the book somewhere in my “weight-room”. (where I keep all my stuff)
It makes for some nice reading.

I have Ken Burn’s “Baseball" as it aired on PBS. Segments are on VHS.
One tape at SP quality for each “inning”. I also have the book as well.

I need to transfer the tapes to Mac and saved as much as possible the
VHS tapes from further wear & tear.