Let's keep the Topps Heritage posts coming, shall we? This next pack that somehow showed up at my house is a retail pack of 2016 Topps Heritage High Number Baseball. This set features stars from seven years ago in the 1967 design.
The wrapper depicts a baseball player for a nondescript team getting tripped up by the controversial "mashed potato hazard," a short-lived attempt to slow runners on the basepaths during a portion of the 1966 season. A literal and figurative "hot potato," the obstacle was abandoned after a two-week test run that August. The baseball world never got to see the reputed follow-up, gravy foul lines.
Let's see who we get.
623 Denard Span
536 Ryan Madson
596 Adam Warren
661 Geovany Soto
You know what, I had this card scanned and ready, but I'm going to leave it out of this post. This blog has no space available for men who abuse women. Insert or not, I'm moving on.
Actually, let's go back a step and recognize the good works of Denard Span, who started the Denard Span Foundation, which aims to "serve and empower single-parent homes." Bravo to you, good sir.
523 Logan Verrett
655 Matt Reynolds
558 Mike Napoli
654 Brad Ziegler
As far as I know, no domestic abuse pleas from any of this quartet.
And while we're at it, let's give a shout out to Brad Ziegler, who is apparently a pretty serious card collector. One of us!
Not an amazing pack, but still a nice look back a few years.
Smart move on the Urias. Love the Napoli.
ReplyDeleteRemember Ziegler from his days with the A's. Had no idea he was a fellow collector though.
ReplyDeleteSmart move removing the mashed potato hazard as well!
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