Silent George.
George is pretty cool in my book. Played on the Cardinals in the early 1980s and was a big part of the 1982 Cardinals World Series team. He was also traded for John Tudor who became one of my favorite mid-late 1980s Cardinals players. I also went to college with one of George's kids who had the second most fumble recoveries in a season while playing at Southeast Missouri.
I don't have many 1970s Hendrick cards, maybe something on the A's or Padres, but nothing on the Indians. Not really one of my favorite teams, so they get skipped over often. Anyway, I really like the 1975 Kelloggs cards, not sure if they are my favorite all-time design from that company, but they are high up there. Which brings me to a throw-in to the throw-in.
It started out as a quick thank you message for the cards I had originally traded for along with the Hendrick. I made note to say something nice about the Kelloggs Hendrick card since I really enjoy those cards. That prompted my trading partner to mention the fact that they had a cool Kelloggs oddball, also a 1975, which I would really enjoy.
A few days later in the mail I received a white envelope with this card inside......
What is it? It's another 1975 Kellogg's card. This one is from the American Presidents sets. I did not know such a thing even existed. Kind of good timing considering that my son has been really into Presidents for the last few months. We have books, pictures, look at coins to see what President is on them, etc, etc....
Anything with Presidents is cool, so I will have to stash away Franklin Pierce and see if he wants to put this card in with all of his other stuff. Although, if you know anything about Franklin Pierce he was arguably one of the worst Presidents........
ever. He had a sad start to his Presidency and then lived the rest of his life in sort of an alcohol induced stupor.
Learned two things from this post:
ReplyDelete#1 - Kellogg's produced a Presidents set in 1975.
#2 - Franklin Pierce was a US President.