Recently while thumbing through some old baseball cards, I came across the 1978 Felix Millan shown below, card number 505 from the Topps set that year. Felix Millan was one of my favorite Mets growing up. Partly because he was a gritty ballplayer who played the keystone well, and partly because I also had the following card from the 1976 set, which showed the Mets second baseman with one of the...
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With all due respect to James McCann, he’s no Mike Piazza. On this Shoebox Memories, the chosen subject is from the 2003 Topps Stadium Club set produced by Topps in November 2002, just in time to be given as gifts under the tree. While most sets are released the following year with stats and pictured from the previous season, this set contains stats from 2002, during which Mike Piazza...
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The card above is from the 2002 Fleer set. I came across it recently while cleaning out and organizing baseball cards that haven’t been seen by the author in quite some time. What was the date of the game played? Can we determine the exact play in the game? Was Jay Payton safe on the play? Who is the umpire, and who is the opposition player also shown on the card? Did the Mets win the...
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In the 1960s, quarterbacks would call the plays in the huddle. In the 1970s, as coaches took more control of what was happening on each play, teams would rotate players into the game and the new player would bring the play the coach had instructed from the side line. In the 1980s, with a shorter time clock to speed up the game, hand signals came from the sideline, instructing the quarterbacks...
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Often we take a look at cards featuring Mets stars and marvel at the action shown on the card. At times we are satisfied to determine the game and play of the action showed on the card front. In this article we’re going to do things a little differently as we review together this 1992 Upper Deck (card #689 from the set) that features Chris Gwynn sliding into third, which is manned by...
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