I won this Brandon Lowe autograph in an Ebay auction. More on the Cardinals cards in a minute, but I also ended up with a Carlos Carrasco autograph since nobody else was bidding on the card.
Notice that the Carrasco and Lowe have the same pattern on the background. Feels a little lazy considering that Topps usually has all sorts of different patterns on these cards. Sort of the whole theme of the set.
I saw Carrasco as a Phillies and Indians prospect when he was coming up through the Minors. Not sure that most people remember him being in the Cliff Lee trade.
The Cardinals checklist is not promising in this set. There is Rick Ankiel, but after that there are people like Paul DeJong. Likely going to take a hard pass on getting any Cardinals here.
Picked up one other Durham Bulls card last week in a trade. I actually sent another collector a bunch of cards to help with completing a set, this was the card I got in return.
A little more low tech than the Lowe and Carrasco cards above. Back of the card.
I love that the Durham Bulls appear both in the stat line, and in the highlight above the stat line with the blurb about Lolich throwing a no-hitter in the Carolina League. I have never been able to find out much about the no-no other than it happened. Regardless, happy to have a new Lolich card in the collection.
Read a cool fact about Lolich in a 1991 Tuff Stuff magazine awhile back. At the time, he was the only player in MLB history to hit a home run in the post season while never hitting one in the regular season. Not sure if that record held up over the past 28 years or if it was even true that he was the only player, but I thought it was interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting. I will have to look around and see if I can find anything about any other players accomplishing that task.
DeleteI have a bunch of unorganized cards of Mickey, they were meant to be added to two different collections (players born in Portland, and former Beavers), but neither collection has really taken off as of yet, hence the lack of organization.
ReplyDeleteI know Lolich, Johnny Pesky, and Kent Bottenfield. I am sure it's a pretty good list of players. If you get going on the collection you should find an autograph of Bottenfield. It's art work.
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