I wonder.
Does anyone know anything about baseball cards? I mean, I used to collect them when I was a kid (back when years started with "198"), but I never really paid much attention to them. They were just something to have.
Yestertoday, Phill and I were out for ice cream and we passed through a supermarket to get to the parking lot. There was a vending machine with all sorts of cards from baseball to Yu-Gi-Oh! to Magic. But some of the baseball cards were the old Topps that I have a bajillion of, and another series, Bowman (the cards say "The Topps Company, Inc" on them, though). Phill bought two packs of each, '88 Topps and '90 Bowman.
After trying the gum -- which shattered when chewed and tasted like shoe leather, Phill said. I lacked the balls to put any of it in my mouth. Freakin' eighteen-year-old gum! -- I looked through the cards. I recognized some names of the players that had stuck around past 1990, but nothing really special, until I noticed a very young-looking Bernie Williams. He still had braces.
I took a look at the back of the card and there weren't many stats on it, only this: "Bernie made his Professional Baseball debut at Sarasota in 1986. He played at Columbus and Albany in 1989." (I made a typo before; Bernie was in Sarasota in 1986, twenty years ago, not 1896.) with some minor league stats off to the side, indicated by asterisks (I made two (since corrected) typos in that sentence, but I spelt "asterisks" correctly. WTF?). However, this is 1990-series and Bernie didn't make his ML debut until 1991. So... what, if any, value does this card hold?
Anyway, I thought it was really funny how twenty-one-year-old-Bernie still wore braces. :3
I've also got a Darryl Kile card with no stats on it, but he ALSO made his debut in 1991. Unfortunately, he can't sign it anyway, because he passed away four years ago.
Yestertoday, Phill and I were out for ice cream and we passed through a supermarket to get to the parking lot. There was a vending machine with all sorts of cards from baseball to Yu-Gi-Oh! to Magic. But some of the baseball cards were the old Topps that I have a bajillion of, and another series, Bowman (the cards say "The Topps Company, Inc" on them, though). Phill bought two packs of each, '88 Topps and '90 Bowman.
After trying the gum -- which shattered when chewed and tasted like shoe leather, Phill said. I lacked the balls to put any of it in my mouth. Freakin' eighteen-year-old gum! -- I looked through the cards. I recognized some names of the players that had stuck around past 1990, but nothing really special, until I noticed a very young-looking Bernie Williams. He still had braces.
I took a look at the back of the card and there weren't many stats on it, only this: "Bernie made his Professional Baseball debut at Sarasota in 1986. He played at Columbus and Albany in 1989." (I made a typo before; Bernie was in Sarasota in 1986, twenty years ago, not 1896.) with some minor league stats off to the side, indicated by asterisks (I made two (since corrected) typos in that sentence, but I spelt "asterisks" correctly. WTF?). However, this is 1990-series and Bernie didn't make his ML debut until 1991. So... what, if any, value does this card hold?
Anyway, I thought it was really funny how twenty-one-year-old-Bernie still wore braces. :3
I've also got a Darryl Kile card with no stats on it, but he ALSO made his debut in 1991. Unfortunately, he can't sign it anyway, because he passed away four years ago.