Friday, June 3, 2022

Snapping up some Yankees

Lately Crocodile Sports Cards has been giving away some cards on his blog. I claimed three Yankee cards, all from 1998, which was certainly a great year for the Yanks. Bernie Williams was one of the best players on that team. Homer Bush was fun to watch and had a fun name. Jason Halper was a 54th round pick as a favor to his dad, a famed memorabilia collector, whose collection included a small ownership share of the Yankees. (To quote John McMullen, "There is nothing quite so limited as being a limited partner of George Steinbrenner's".) Halper's 11 game pro career was already over by the time this card was released.



3 comments:

  1. They drafted him in the 54th round in '96 and the 45th round in '97. He went to Columbia, so he probably didn't need baseball to make a living.

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  2. Glad they got there in one piece. I haven't been so lucky lately.

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  3. I hadn't heard of Jason Halper, or his dad, before this post. It seems like if you're gonna get a cheap in like this, you should probably at least try to be a serviceable player.

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