Post by ndbooster on Apr 10, 2011 6:04:20 GMT -5
I haven't collected with any degree of seriousness since I was about ten, but I still like to pick up packs when the new season cards arrive, mostly to see what the design looks like and secondarily to try to luck into the various goodies (autographs, memorabilia cards, etc.) that companies seed into their packs.
So I'm in my local Meijer about a year ago and they have a bunch of mini-boxes (eight packs per box, also called "blasters") of 2007 Turkey Red, which features current players on cards made to look like old tobacco issues. Turkey Red is normally an insert in regular Topps packs, but a couple of times they've gotten their own stand-alone set, 2007 being the most recent. When new these retailed for twenty bucks a box, but Meijer was offering them at eight dollars; I pick up a bunch of them.
The regular cards look pretty good, a combination of what Topps considered the elite players of 2007 and the most promising rookies. (Including an Andrew Miller card - they can't all be winners.) There's a bunch of Mantle cards, a pointless subset of Presidents (I got John Quincy Adams and Woodrow freakin' Wilson) and a 500-card (!) subset devoted to A-Rod's first 500 home runs, each dinger getting its own card. (I wish I were making that up.) Inserts in this set are few and far between, but I picked up this doozy:
i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj263/stumpfreeman/cards%20for%20trade/Royals/AngelBerroabatcardeRoyals2007Turkey.jpg
Yes, this guy was the AL Rookie of the Year in 2003, in what would be his only decent season. He plays full seasons the following three years, his power stats dropping steadily throughout, and in 2007 (the year Topps chose to encase his bat in the Turkey Red cards) he appeared in just nine games with a BA of .091. That's right: worse than most pitchers, and less than half of the Mendoza line. He then plays half a season for the Dodgers in 2008, batting a mighty .230; in '09 he plays twenty games for the Yankees and about a dozen for the Mets, hitting a collective .143 for both teams. No wonder he couldn't hit: Topps put his bat on a baseball card and he apparently didn't have another.
Angel Berroa did not play in 2010 and is currently not affiliated with any Major League team, which I think means he is not playing at any competitive level. He still has an agent however, I guess in the event you want to hire him to paint your house or something.
Consider this thread open: if you have a baseball card worse than this one, please post it here, so we can all sympathize with your plight (and have a good laugh besides.)
So I'm in my local Meijer about a year ago and they have a bunch of mini-boxes (eight packs per box, also called "blasters") of 2007 Turkey Red, which features current players on cards made to look like old tobacco issues. Turkey Red is normally an insert in regular Topps packs, but a couple of times they've gotten their own stand-alone set, 2007 being the most recent. When new these retailed for twenty bucks a box, but Meijer was offering them at eight dollars; I pick up a bunch of them.
The regular cards look pretty good, a combination of what Topps considered the elite players of 2007 and the most promising rookies. (Including an Andrew Miller card - they can't all be winners.) There's a bunch of Mantle cards, a pointless subset of Presidents (I got John Quincy Adams and Woodrow freakin' Wilson) and a 500-card (!) subset devoted to A-Rod's first 500 home runs, each dinger getting its own card. (I wish I were making that up.) Inserts in this set are few and far between, but I picked up this doozy:
i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj263/stumpfreeman/cards%20for%20trade/Royals/AngelBerroabatcardeRoyals2007Turkey.jpg
Yes, this guy was the AL Rookie of the Year in 2003, in what would be his only decent season. He plays full seasons the following three years, his power stats dropping steadily throughout, and in 2007 (the year Topps chose to encase his bat in the Turkey Red cards) he appeared in just nine games with a BA of .091. That's right: worse than most pitchers, and less than half of the Mendoza line. He then plays half a season for the Dodgers in 2008, batting a mighty .230; in '09 he plays twenty games for the Yankees and about a dozen for the Mets, hitting a collective .143 for both teams. No wonder he couldn't hit: Topps put his bat on a baseball card and he apparently didn't have another.
Angel Berroa did not play in 2010 and is currently not affiliated with any Major League team, which I think means he is not playing at any competitive level. He still has an agent however, I guess in the event you want to hire him to paint your house or something.
Consider this thread open: if you have a baseball card worse than this one, please post it here, so we can all sympathize with your plight (and have a good laugh besides.)
