Broken bat

I've seen some broken bats' cards, but at this point!?

It even seems that the bats top is heading to a different direction that the swing.

But at least the ball seems to be going to the right place.

A bunt is always a bunt - Willie McGee

Even more when you see the ball right after the bunt.

1993 Leaf Series 2

Today I'm showing two packs of the Godzilla Set!

I know night owl called it an other name but for me it is the Godzilla!

And I think everyone knows why.

The cards back shows a picture of the team's city and the player.

An example from the mentioned night owl.

I confess the first time I looked to the back of on of the cards I instantly hated it!

What bloody hell in the world was that!?

And the stats are difficult to read.

But like they say 'first you wonder then you entrench'.

It's not one of my favourite sets for sure. But I don't hate it like before.

I simply ignore the back. Because I don't have nothing against the front.

#264 Pat Listach SS@MIL - Rookie of the year for the previous year. If it was Topps this card would have the famous cup.
#273 Tony Fernandez SS@NYM - In'93 would play for the Blue Jays and would win the WS title.
#282 Greg Gagne SS@KC - Love the sun-glasses-field-play.
#291 Rickey Henderson OF@OAK - Mister Henderson ready to still?
#351 Willie Banks P@MIN
#368 Rich Rodriguez P@SD
#357 Greg Olson C@ATL - Screaming to make the ball reach the 2B faster?
#346 Roberto Hernandez P@CWS

#281 Daryl Boston OF@COL
#396 Willie McGee OF@SF - Bunt to the ground. Did McGee succeed on reaching safely the 1B?
#245 Roberto Alomar 2B@TOR - Breaking the bat and still picturing the ball!? Great photo!
#256 Bret Barberie 2B@FLA - This Florida uniform is too much blue. I firstly thought it was the Royals.
#267 Eric Davis OF@LAD
#278 Tom Henke P@TEX - Won the WS the previous year with the Blue Jays.

#437 Carlos Quintana 1B/OF@BOS
#336 Sean Berry 3B@MTL
#345 Rene Gonzales 3B@CA
#354 Erik Hanson P@SEA
#293 Doug Drabek P@HOU - Drabek always look like the grandfather of the rest of the team.
#314 Kirk Gibson OF/DH@DET
#303 John Cummings P@SEA
#292 Chuck Finley P@CA

#335 Ramon Martinez P@LAD
#355 David Hulse OF@TEX
#351 Willie Banks P@MIN - Getting only 2 packs and getting duplicates none the same is way no fun at all.
#350 John Jaha 1B@MIL
#339 Stan Belinda P@PIT
#438 Omar Olivares P@STL


As you may see I'm not that impressed by this set for the cards I got.

But perhaps in a few years I'd change my opinion.

Card Chase - 1993 Flair Premier Edition by Fleer

And it's today I end opening packs from the Card Chase box I got so long ago!

Here goes my last pack of the box, the 1993 Flair Premier Edition.

Well, the first time I looked at the pack (if you can call it that, it's more like a mini-box) I thought this was like a mini-super-set.

When I turned the pack I saw the set were 300 cards.

That's something for what Premier stands for me. I thought Premier were not only the cards but also the players, and having 300 Premier players sounds like a bit too much.

Premier is like Selective.

Well...nevermind.

The pack also stated that there were a sub set of 20 rookie cards called 'Wave of the Future'. As you can see by the following photos I got none of those.

The cards are quite hard! And they sure are quite thickness!

And They have this softness and brightness and colourness and...Yep. They look like a Premier product.

Well, at least for what I can picture for a '93 product.

The front design is simple on what writing is about. You have the Flair logo and the players name. And That font and colour makes me go bahhhhhhh.

I cannot read it easily. It's not that I don't like it's simple because it's not that easy to read handwriting type of letter in this things.

About the photo...I like the main photo but the 'ghost' one I'd pass.

If to make a design like this at least separate the photos and don't do the 'ghost' thing. Sometimes you get what seems like two players batting each others heads or punching each other faces.

No cool.

The card back has the normal statics facts and an other photo! Now that I like! Having a almost 2/3 of photo on the back is a bonus.

But again what could have been a perfect card back is spoiled by the handwriting letter again. And now, having more to read makes me go more like grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Now lets see what players I got.

#47 Bret Barberie 2B@FLA - Started MLB career with Expos but is better known for being in the inaugural Florida Marlins team in '93 and he even got the first hit by a Marlin on opening day. This makes this card pretty meaningful to me!

#52 Bryan Harvey P@FLA - Also a member of the first Florida Marlins. Got a career 2.49 ERA. Not bad for a closer.

#57 Jeff Bagwell 1B@HOU - Like a superstar in Houston that saw his career shorten because of health issues. He got a very good swing photo.

#62 Steve Finley OF@HOU - In '93, he led the league in triples with 13 shots and would lead tied in '03 with 10 with Rafael Furcal. Finley ranks #89 in the 2K hits list with 2,548 hits. Ranks #131 in the 300HRs list with 304 rounds. Ranks #141 in the Leaders in SB list with 320 career total. Ranks #167 in the 1K RBIs list with 1,167 RBIs. Ranks #79 in the 1K Runs list with 1,443 scoring runs. Ranks tied in #90 for the list of players with 100 triples with 124. And finally ranks #99 with 449 doubles in the 400 doubles list. WOW! Not only for this but Finley's card is my favourite.

#69 Jim Gott P@LAD

#74 Roger McDowell P@LAD

#167 Jeff Russell P@BOS

#173 Damion Easley 3B@CA - Look at his photo. He looks like he left the diapers a few days ago.

#183 Alex Fernandez P@CWS

#203 Kirk Gibson OF@DET - This is my second favourite card. Love the photos. '93 was the year Gibson returned to Detroit where he would end his career in '95. Right now Gibson is the D-Backs manager. And I do like Arizona.

So, all-in-all I liked the Premier cards I got. Wish there were more than 10 or at least that I could have get a Yankee.

Like a Don Mattingle card...

Black & White - Is that a bad thing? - take 2

I'm back.

Yesterday's post was me venting a bit.

All set to get back to the hobby.

I posted a couple of days ago a black and white Jeter photo that I liked and said I'd gimp it to be some kind of a card-looking-photo.

Actually I didn't gimp it but I paint it.

I really cannot get along with gimp like the way I did with photoshop.

So I reverted to basic tool that every windows PC has. Paint.

Here is the amateur result of it.

I like the diagonal design. I saw a few cards with it and have a few.

For example the 1993 Leaf set, the 'Godzilla' set, have only one corner 'cut'.

But I think the set that pop up always in my mind when talking about double-cut-corners is the 1989 Fleer set.

I like it. Even the gray background. Sadly I don't have any card from this set.

But I also like that year Fleer SuperStar look even with no gray.

This one kind of have both bottom corners on diagonal way. This set I have.

I like diagonal layout on cards because it gives somehow movement to the card.