- Surprised when I saw the Colorado Rockies ASG logo on the front of the card that this didn't turn out to be some kind of parallel. Nope...
- Bio on the back: "Thome's first home run of the 1998 season came at a very opportune time. ...he came up with two men on and two out in the bottom of the 10th inning and delivered a game winning blast as the Indians beat the Angels 6-5." That was career homer #134 and Troy Percival was the victim.
- Career homer #176 wast hit July 4th, 1999 against the Kansas City Royals. Kevin Appier gave up the long ball, and was part of a wild game which saw the Royals win 10-9. Both teams scored 4 runs in the ninth.
- Robert
- The #70 isn't quite as big as the #25 that was featured earlier today, but it certainly stood out for me, so I decided to do a 2nd post today with the big number theme.
- I decided to look up this set to see how big it was, thinking it might be 20-30 cards. It was 90! There were some guys on there that represented a stretch for me to hit 70 in a season (Javy Lopez and Edgar Martinez to name a couple), so this kind of lost its luster a little.
- There are 3 copies of this card on COMC, ranging from 65 cents to $1.24. $1.24 seems to be a popular price on COMC, I'm not sure why....
- Robert
