The '82 Box Sorted

Last night, I watched Zombieland and sorted through the 1982 box of cards from the garage sale haul. Since the sewingmachinegal was out for the evening, Zombieland was the choice. The sewingmachinegal doesn't like such movies. "I don't like movies with psychos", she always says. Woody Harrelson was great in his role as an ass kickin' red neck.
Onto the loot.
First, let's get this right out of the way... there was no Ripken rookie card. There were a bunch of Future Stars though.

The box had been raided of most of the big stars. There were no Rose, Brett, Schmidt, Henderson, Yaz, or the like. The raiders did overlook these guys though. 9 Molitors, 8 Rices, 4 Blylevens, 5 Gossages, 9 Stargells, and 6 Murrays.

Most of the good All Star cards had been snatched. I was left with a bevy of these guys. My boyhood friend Connie Swanson used to do a Scotty McGregor when we would play home-run derby in his driveway. McGregor sort of had an across the body delivery. Connie had it down.

Up until the early '80's, most baseball card images had guys in awkward poses. Like this Tanana. Joe Garagiola once said about Tanana, "You could catch him using a Kleenex."

Possibly because cards like the Tanana are fugly, or perhaps the feedback was positive for cards with game action shots, Topps introduced a sub-set called In Action. Most of the big names were removed from this box, but there were some good ones left behind. I bet Luzinski was ecstatic with the Sox jersey's that didn't have to be tucked in.

There were a few Tigers in the box. Gotta show 4 of my favorites from the team that would win the '84 World Series.

Last but not least, a card of one of my all-time favorite players... in name only. My first ever blog post was about Shooty.

Well, that's it for the 82 box. I will probably go ahead and put together a set of this stuff now. When I get it all sorted out, I will have a bunch of mint doubles to deal.
Thanks for reading. Peace.

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And now, a League Leader card for your enjoyment. 1982Topps #168. Oh the joy of facial hair... kempt and unkempt. Kempt? I guess.

When the Card Fits the Player

I have been looking for cards that fit the player to a T. 1982 Topps #610 is a perfect example. Snagged on eBay for $15 bucks.

The all-time stolen base king (1,406 swipes) is shown edging his way off first base. In my time, Rickey goes down as one of the top 3 most dominating players. He single handedly changed games with his speed on the bases. When pitchers tried not walking him, he cranked home runs (297 career/81 to lead off games).

Inducted into the Hall-of-Fame with 94.8% of the vote. Who are the dickhead sports writers that don't think Rickey is a first ballot Hall-of-Famer?