Posts on Trades on Cards

hey everybody,

it seems i'm no different than a lot of my blogger brethren who fall behind on putting up trade posts.  my hat's off to those of you who have the discipline to stay on top of it.

Kerry has been posting some great trade bait of past players over at the cool blog Cards on Cards.  go on over there and check his posts from october.  there might be some good stuff remaining.

(note: in the latest frustrating development with blogger, i can no longer use red for the color of the font in my links.  links now accept only the color blue. hence, the almost invisible font on links. *sheesh*)

i was able to pick up some great cards to fill out my player collections. first up, mike schmidt...

these 'legends' series cards look great.  this is a most excellent shot of the proper way to play the hot corner.

the proper way to watch a bomb sail over the fence

anybody know about that '100' patch on his arm?  is that 100 years for the phillie franchise?  maybe 100 years of philly cheese steak sandwiches?

MVP!

above is a great card of the hit king.  we recently had a good back-and-forth here in ATBATT about cheating players.  i wrote a post about mark mcgwire and mentioned pete rose.  a couple of folks weighed in with their opinions and i really appreciated that.

sure, it's fun to have a blog and opine on all things large and small, but it's even better when you, my readers and fellow bloggers drop in with your thoughts. we call it a community for a reason.

speaking of cheaters, here's LA's most famous member of that club.  i hear manny is still playing in some off-league somewhere.  if he can work his way back into baseball shape, i would be really interested in seeing how he does...with a different club.  

 THANKS for the great trade, Kerry ! 

Vintage League Leaders Trade Bait

hey everybody,

here comes some 1976 topps league leaders.  there are a total of 15 if you want to collect all of the '76 leader cards.   among those not included here are cards featuring the top firemen, ERA and victory leaders.   that said, check out this line up of yesterday's heroes...

i love vintage cards with vintage stadiums in the background.  those levels behind dave kingman look like they go straight up!

rivers looks like he still can't believe they actually pay him to play ball.

names that just ring 'old timer'.  how about those cartoon graphics!

i love the way these cards give you their '75 numbers at a glance.  i don't know who george scott is, but i wanna party with any dude sporting those superfly chops.  

after Lopes, everybody else's numbers fall off the map.  nice.

Luzinski with a classic '70's baseball face.  where's the spitoon?

THANKS for reading!

Binder Page Heroes 11 Mike Schmidt Edition

hey everybody,

today's binder page features ol' schmidtty, mr. mike schmidt, the long-time phillie who was bad-ass enough to actually sob at his retirement announcment, and nobody snickered or questioned it.  i think we all felt it with him.  heck, it still chokes me up when i watch this clip...

 it also took some brass to wear that tie, schmiddy.  check it out at the 30 second mark.


most of my schmidt cards came to me through trades, so this binder page is definitely a bit of a tribute to my fellow blogger-reader-trader buddies out there.  mike schmidt is always welcome in an offer or package here at ATBATT. 

here's the man who patrolled the hot corner for the phillies for his  entire career...

schmidt looks a bit like he's fighting the flu in this shot

schmidt was a 12 time all-star.  according to this card, mike likes electric trains.  can't you see him in one of those striped engineer hats?

the blue of his uniform absolutely rocks with the blue photo border.  it's one of my favorites.

picked this up in a trade. THANKS !

this card is great because it's rare for me to find a card with schmidt playing defense.  anybody have an original out there for trade?

THANKS for reading !