The vast majority (okay all) of the cards featured in these series of posts are from my personal collection. A card collector as kid, the obsession grew with the advent of online auctions. While perusing Mets cards online, I was able to find the following card to bid on and add to my obsession collection: What we see on the card is obviously a brush-back pitch to the batter Art Shamsky —...
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...
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...
