- #252 Lowell Palmer
- #350 Roberto Clemente
- #500 Hank Aaron
- #585 Rusty Staub
- #660 Johnny Bench
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If you want to nominate cards that you don't see on any of the posts, feel free to include them here. Up to five cards (there has to be a limit) will be added to the existing five cards when it comes time to vote.
By then, the comments will be closed for nominations, and it will be time to put everything to a vote.
The Juan Rios card, showing Rios browsing over the bat rack was an unusual pose. I'd pick it over Staub.
ReplyDeleteThen again, it's nice to include the first big star for the Expos franchise, in their crisp new uniforms.
Staub's a keeper. Not so sure about the Bench (or the Clemente or Aaron, for that matter). But the #1 card in the set, literally & figuratively, was the World Champion Mets team card. True, I'm a Mets fan, but I remembered everybody wanted that card that year. It was just such a miracle, everybody wanted a piece...and verification that it actually happened. The Series highlights cards were equally popular.
ReplyDeleteThe key card in the set is clearly the Nolan Ryan. You can't leave out the Thurman Munson Rookie Card. And you really need to have a Seattle Pilot; how amazing was it to have cards for a team that didn't exist (and no cards for a team that did)? No, Larry Haney's '69 does not suffice. Love the Pilot uni's. For that reason, I'm partial to the cards of Bolin and Baldwin and maybe Kubiak--none of whom were with the '69 Pilots.