So there is this really good Dodgers prospect named Jose DeLeon. He has a bunch of cards out, he's been rated in the Top 100 Prospects almost universally across the board, and he seems well liked. So, this weekend I was working on finishing up a trade when the other party asked me about Jose DeLeon cards. He was a Pirates fan, but naturally I pulled out a few cards of the Dodgers kid....
Welp, wrong Jose DeLeon and I probably should have known better as a Cardinals fan. After all, for a few years in the late 1980s, Jose DeLeon was a pretty good pitcher for the Cardinals. I was really surprised that someone was asking me for the 1980s version of Jose DeLeon. Maybe, I was a little unprepared, but it was fun to look back through some of my old late 1980s and 1990s Cardinals cards when DeLeon pitched in St. Louis.
Apparently, the guy I was trading with met him once as a kid in Pittsburgh and has collected his cards for more than 30 years. Sounded like a cool and unique collection. In the end, I ended up finding a few oddball DeLeon cards to pass along to the first ever Jose DeLeon collector I have encountered.
My favorite out of the group of cards traded was a duplicate of a 1991 St. Louis Police Cardinals Stadium Giveaway.
While the old Cardinals team set giveaways are not too difficult to find, they were given away in essentially wrapped in a plain white envelope with the cards loose inside. I found this picture off of an Ebay auction showing the cards in their original envelope....
The majority of the baseball card giveaways that I picked up from Busch Stadium as a kid are definitely in rough shape, but about fifteen years ago I found almost all of the sets, in great condition, at a little card shop outside of St. Louis. I was happy that a little purchase from a card shop fifteen years ago could help out a fellow collector and help me pick out an old card for my weekly Monday post.
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