RIP Phil! It's been a hard year on former MLB players, even MLB HOF'ers have left at a lot quicker pace than I ever remember. I don't know if I'm just getting older so I'm noticing it more as some of these players I collected as a kid or if it's just a lot for the year.
Oddly enough, today's random was one of those players we've lost this year. I mentioned the other day when I did the Mark Buehrle post that MB was one of my favorite pitchers, this guy would be my favorite of all time.
These 5 all came from, you guessed it, Jeff at 2x3 Heroes. I like the look of the Warrior on the Diamond. Of course, a few vintage look a likes (Phil Niekro makes another appearance on the 1970 reprint) and I'm not sure which set the last card is supposed to be a replica of. I suppose I could Google it but I'm lazy and don't really need to know. Obviously it's the 1969 set but I don't know if they just made it for the Heritage set or if it's a replica of a subset in '69.
The 10 Tom Terrific cards on this page get my Seaver collection up to 398 cards but don't worry, it'll get over 400 once I get the new Sportlots package logged and scanned.
The last card is based on stickers which were inserts in 1969. Seaver has one in the original set, but with a different picture (the picture from his standard 1969 card). https://images.app.goo.gl/Tior5zxd8qaPtDrx7 Gotta get that Upper Deck Vintage card--nice look at Seaver when he returned to the Mets in the '80s.
ReplyDelete7 Hall of Famers died this year...it's not you, that's a really high number. The most ever.
I just read about 2020 having the most hall of fame members deaths. Very sad.
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