Griffey Ripken Ryan

 Lots of collectors have Griffey Jr, Nolan Ryan, and Ripken Jr. cards.  I have a whole binder of cards

for this trio.  However, mine are all oddballs.  Here are some of my favorites.

My Ryan "rookie"

A Ventura sandwich

Smokey Bear

A Hallmark Special

Dept. of Motor Vehicles

I have a lot of SI for Kids

Another phone card

Griffey was on multiple phone cards

another SI

There were so many unauthorized Griffey's

Bob

 I was inspired by Gavin a few years ago to begin collecting cards with Bob or Bobby first names.

There are now over 200 different cards in my "Bob" collection.

Here are some of my favorites.

I forgot my 1952 Berk Ross Bobby Doerr

More 1950's Bob"s

Bob Allison, one of first Rookie Cup

HOF'er and manager

Another Two-fer in my collection

On a few cards he is Bob Clemente

Notice the BOB on his jersey

Hostess Bob

Don't mess with Bob

Just a bit outside

I must be in the front row

TCMA

 I thought I had all the years for TCMA but found out as I was doing this post that I'm missing 1976.

I would be happy to trade some of my other TCMA cards to anyone that has a 1976 TCMA.   Who it is 

doesn't matter.

1972

1973

1974

1975

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

Ironically Roger Maris died in 1985.  He did win his 2nd straight MVP in 1961 after

breaking Ruth's record.   The vote in '61 was close with Mantle  second.

Some coincidental parallels to this season with Judge and Ohtani.

Pieces of Leather

 My first baseball mitt I remember using was an Al Kaline model from K Mart.  For High School I got a

Wilson Model 2000 of Al Kaline.  I still have that mitt to this day and have used it playing softball until a 

couple of years ago.  My recent Baseball card search is to find the earliest card with a colored glove that is 

not Black or Tan.

This 1986 is my oldest so far.

Lots of pictures with gloves on heads

Followed by the glove in teeth

Black and Tan

Left and Right, Was Ken Dayley ambidextrous

Glove on a bat

A boxing Glove

An old mitt

Helps balance the Karate move

Die Cut

 One of my mini collections are Die Cuts.  My quick research shows Die Cuts were originally called

Scraps and were around as early as the 1800's.

There were quite a few baseball "Scraps" in the late 1890's and early Twentieth Century

While I don't have any original Scraps, here is a reprint card of HOF'er

Jess Haines

My die cuts started with the deckle edge

All shapes and sizes

Lots of Heroes

Jersey Die Cut

This is my 10th in this series

Yes Father I got this on Ebay

Probably technically not a die cut but I like it

I thought i should show at least one bubble card

I actually hung this on my tree one year.

Happy Holidays a little early.