- Great game action shot of Thome about to catch the ball at first base. It didn't take Thome long to transition to 1st base as his fielding percentage was routinely in the .990s after the move.
- Hard to tell, but it looks as if Jim has both the eye black on his face, along with the sunglasses. Overkill?
- Bio on the back: "...(Jim) is the first Indians left-handed batter with back to back 30 plus homer seasons since Hal Trosky in 1936-37." I know that I've mentioned that before somewhere on the blog...
- Robert
- Loved the idea of this card, collectors pulled these out of packs and if the player scored on the date listed, you won a "really cool" 30 card. Each player had 3 different dates to score on.
- February 3rd, 1996 the Avalanche played the New York Rangers and won. Joe scored two goals that night, so someone could have sent this in and claimed their prize.
- I could go on twitter right now, and tell people that Sakic scored on Glenn Healy that night and would get responses such as "not surprising" and "good". A lot of people from the Great White North did not enjoy listening to Glenn on their hockey telecasts...
- Robert
- Bio on the back: "Jim Thome smacked a pair of no-doubt-about-them home runs against the White Sox on 6/3/97 for the fifth two homer game of his American League career." Wonder why Fleer found it necessary to put in "American League"?
- I've never been to Jacobs Field in Cleveland, but I'm assuming that the stadium below Jim represents that. Please correct me if I'm wrong...
- I like the baseball in the upper right corner, it appears that it's headed towards the moon. If it were an actual baseball coming off of Jim's bat, that would have been even better...
- Robert
- Had a trio of Nordiques cards still to show, but they belong in a mini-marathon so I decided to get the first card of Joe in an Avalanche uniform out there today.
- No beating around the bush, this card is HEAVY! Almost as heavy as the thick as a brick the Cup cards.
- 5 copies of the card are currently listed on COMC, ranging from $1.45 to $2.74. Might be able to make more if I melted the card down....
- Robert
- What does a guy gotta do? The one season that Matt Williams spends in Cleveland, he wins a silver slugger and gold glove. What do the Indians do? They trade him to the Diamondbacks for Travis Fryman.
- Wonder what would have become of Thome's career had he remained at 3rd base instead of moving to 1st when Williams arrived...
- Need the Blue Jays version of this insert, which features Roger Clemens and Jose Cruz Jr. There are some great duos featured in this insert set, including Griffey/ARod and Vlad Guerrero/Pedro Martinez of the Expos.
- Robert
- First of the Pacific brand of cards for 1998; I only showed one for Thome from 1997.
- What is that design in the background? Pinwheel? Chinese throwing star? Any ideas? Also I found it interesting that the blue background you see on the scan is actually silver in hand.
- Only 3 copies of this card on COMC right now, 1 is at 73 cents, the other 2 at 74 cents. Sounds about right.
- There are 19 unique Pacific branded cards (incl. parallels) listed for sale on the site. I'd be surprised if I have half of them.
- Robert
- Similar to the McCutchen card in yesterday's afternoon post, the horizontal shot makes all the difference here. Gotta wonder if he stopped the Bruin featured in the shot here...
- This is another example of me having the parallel card and not the base card. I've really got to change that...
- I love the border. The greenish/blue marble effect has always been a favorite of mine, and it hasn't changed in 25 years.
- Robert
- I've never been big on companies such as Classic, but this card I really like. I'll be damned if I can remember who sent it to me, but thank you to the person that did!
- It took a bit of searching to find out exactly what set that this card was from. I finally found it on COMC.
- This will probably be one of the few cards that you will see featuring Felix in his St. John's Maple Leafs jersey. I think Classic was the only company to release cards of him with that particular logo...
- Robert
- Believe me, I get it about people not liking unlicensed cards. To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of them myself. But done right, you have to admit that some of them look pretty good. I do like this card.
- Not sure why I had this card mixed in with the 2014 page of McCutchen cards, it clearly says on the back 2012 Prizm. Brain fart!
- Team MVP indeed. .327 average, 194 hits and 31 homers is going to be tough to beat out for top dog honors.
- At Andrew's current pace, he would hit the 3000 hit mark sometime during his age 40 season. I think that 2500 is a more reasonable objective for Cutch.
- Robert
- I think that this card was made even better by the fact that it's a horizontal shot. If the baseball was in the frame, the photo would have been absolutely fantastic. I still miss the dreads.
- It had been almost a month since I posted a McCutchen card, so I decided to make up for it today by posting two MVP related cards. No, the next post will not be the base card version of this one...
- I was curious to see how much this card would be selling for on COMC. When I went there, no copies were for sale! The series 1 base blue parallel had a few copies, selling from 64 cents to $2.25.
- I was a little surprised (but shouldn't have been so..) that this was the first card from the 2014 Topps set featured on this blog. I'm sure that I'll find a card or 2 from this set for Brett Lawrie to post as well...
- Robert
