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Friday, November 23, 2012
1987 Wausau Timbers (ProCards)
Another of several 1987 ProCards sets. I love the team uniform, reminiscent of the Mariners uniforms of the time.
Jose Tartabull Sr. and Deron Johnson Sr. were teammates on the 1962 Kansas City Athletics.
This set contains a real mystery card. Anyone recognize this guy?
The back is no help.
I've checked every other player who played for Wausau in 1986 and 1987 and don't think it is any of them. Anyone know who the mystery guy on 1987 ProCards #1152 is?
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The Standard Catalog just lists 1152 as "unidentified player". I will now make it my missing to track down who this is....sort of like how I'm trying to figure out who is on Matt Williams' 1987 Phoenix Firebirds card.
ReplyDeleteFYI, the player on Matt Williams' 1987 ProCards Phoenix Firebirds card is one Phil Ouellette.
DeleteMaybe watch for 1987 timbers stuff on ebay. Might never come up, but I resorted to identifying a background player on one of my cards through a roster included in an autographed ball I spotted there. Like this guy, the background player had his uniform number visible.
ReplyDeleteIt would be easy if only American card manufactures gave a flip about uniform numbers like companies in every other country. As it is, I'll probably have to track down a game program from a Timbers game. There is a Peoria Chiefs program on eBay right now, from a game against the Timbers. I'm just not sure it's worth $10.50 to me to figure this out just yet.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering the same thing about the unknown guy a couple years back. I think it may be a player named William Diaz who played for them in '86. I found an '86 Wausau card and a couple later cards of him on ebay and the picture looks about the same, although he had a different number in '86. I thought maybe he was intiially on the team in '87 but got moved up before he played a game. Do a search on that name on ebay and take a look at the images.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's Diaz. Even accounting for the different angles of his head in the photos, the nose is different. Also, Diaz had that massive Jheri curl on his 1986 card and still later on his 1988 cards.
DeleteThat's Fausto Ramirez! He played SS/2b behind mike McDonald and Greg and Greg Briley
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