As a Mets fan growing up in Queens collecting baseball cards through the 1970’s, whenever I saw a Mets player was on another player’s card, it was sort of a free bonus – an extra Mets card. We’ve shown a few cards of that sort during this series, (1974 Gary Matthews with Wayne Garrett, 1989 Padres Team card with Gary Carter) and today we’re going to take a look at...
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In this off-season edition of Shoebox Memories, we take a look back at the 2002 Topps Chrome Gold card of Mike Piazza. The 2002 Topps Chrome was a 660-card chromium-stock partial-parallel of the regular 2002 Topps set. Series One (cards 1-331) was released in late January, 2002; while Series Two wasn’t released until June. To reflect the premium value of the set and in an effort to give...
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There are sports writers who did not cast votes for Babe Ruth. Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Mets great Tom Seaver were all first ballot Hall of Famers who voters found a reason not to vote for. Yogi Berra was not elected to the hall of Fame until the third ballot. While only Mariano Rivera has been a unanimous Hall of Fame electee in the 80 year history of the Hall of Fame, one of the more...
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MMO previously analyzed the 1973 Topps Tommie Agee card to determine the date, venue, and other players and umpire shown on that particular card as well as the unseen batter. Today, we’re going to turn the clock back just a bit further and see, armed with our trusty Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat, if we can’t solve the mysteries presented on the 1971 Topps Tommie Agee card #310...
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Having analyzed several Mets Topps cards from the mid-80s recently, and one non-Topps card (we will kindly ignore how the writer thought it was Dwight Gooden pitching at Wrigley rather than Candlestick), let’s go back in time to the 1974 Topps set. Recall fondly that in 1974, the Mets were defending National League Champions. On the card shown below, batter Gary Matthews is sliding safely...
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