Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Yankees! Yeah! Let's go!

 Not much to get excited about with the display on the field, but a surprise package of Yankee cards from Johnny's Trading Spot is still a lot of fun. So much good stuff that I feel a little bit bad picking cards out of his giveaway that he posted today. I'll wait until tomorrow to pick some cards, let everyone else go first.

OK, Boone-era Yankees aren't the most fun. Still some nice shiny cards and odd parallels. I think Johnny finally purged Gary Sanchez from his PC. One of many fine young players the Yankees have ruined over the last few years. 

Back when the Yankees had too much pride to let a team with an identical record steamroll them like this. (OK, the Yankees have a mini-rally right now and Judge is up as the tying run. Better hit "publish" before he strikes out.) (EDIT - wow, HR! OK, maybe some good luck here after all.) (EDIT 2 - wow, they won! Guess Johnny's cards gave them luck! Either that or my whining did.)
Sign here. And here. And here. A couple of Jesus Montero's in here - he was Gary Sanchez before Gary Sanchez.
Reggie! Johnny is up to the middle of the alphabet in his sorting exercise. Love all the Mr. October cards. Would he be the best player on an all-eyeglasses team?
Another great mid-alphabet Yankee. There were some Godzilla cards up in the earlier photos; here's King Kong. Wait until Panini finds out that there was more than one photo of Charlie Keller taken during his playing career.
Now here's the big highlight for me. Broders and magazine cards. I can't get enough of these. Technically the Pascual Perez card is neither but it's a great oddball of one of my favorite Yankees from when I was a kid and would have been thrilled for the team to be as "bad" as they are now.

 

2 comments:

  1. Not sure if the site is accurate, but according to Wikipedia... there are only four baseball players who wore glasses in the hall of fame: Jackson, Greg Maddux, Dick Allen, and Chick Hafey.

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