Guest star card. Delino DeShields (Joe Carter)

 A future Jay sliding in under an Expo.

 Bonus cards of Joe smiling.

I don't think Joe got this one. I think the fan in the Mattingly shirt pulled it in.

Joe could laugh about it later.

Joe was a true RBI guy. A lot of his numbers didn't look great, but I think that Joe was from the old school that believed that the clean up hitter was meant to drive in runs, not draw walks. And right or wrong, in the end he did his job exceptionally well. And there's no questioning that Joe hit better with men on base.

He played where he was needed and did a decent job with the glove, he stole a few bases, hit for power, and was clearly a big part of the chemistry of the teams he played for. He may not be a Hall of Famer, but he'll never have to pay for a drink in Canada, that much is for sure.

Fred McGriff. Conductor?

 Get that horn section pumping Freddie!

Swing sequences. Dave Winfield.

Lots of Dave today.

Random cards. Dave Winfield.

 Here's looking at you kid.

 The same play from different angles from different companies.

 Big men deserve big cards.

WTF cards. Cito Gaston & Tommy Harper.

So, both these guys "virtually rewrote their team's record books" in 1970. And in fact, they both had spectacular seasons. Cito never got near to that level again, and while Tommy had some other good seasons, 1970 was also his best.

So where's the WTF?

Well, rewriting a team's record book isn't really that big of a deal when in both cases, the team was only in its second season! Silly rabbits.

Guest star card. Benito Santiago (Tim Raines). Card back.

Another in a series.

Benny's got those snazzy photo armbands on. Gotta love them.

Random card. Tony Gwynn.

"Damn it, I just know that jerk Hoffman is taking shots of my ass again".

Some more fun cards.

 Jeff Conine skips some rope. Why was he never called "Conine the Barbarian?" Heck, he had the bone and everything (see my last post).  I guess barbarians don't skip.

I bet Jack Armstrong didn't have to do this when he was an all star in 1990. Jack switched from the number 40 that he wore in his glory day with the Reds to the number 77 in his stints with the Indians, the Marlins, and the Rangers. Based on his stats in those three seasons, I'm thinking that 77 was about the max he hit on the radar gun.

Randy Myers practices his moonwalk. He should have been practicing ducking, as he got hit pretty hard in his stint as a Jay. Randy made 13.5 million in 1999 & 2000. He pitched exactly no innings in those 2 seasons. He made one appearance for Tacoma in the PCL in 2001. He faced 4 batters, gave up 3 hits (including a home run) and a walk and 4 earned runs.

And the now-retired Trevor Hoffman pisses off some photographer by wasting film on close ups of Tony Gwynn's ass.
No doubt that Trevor was the best former minor league shortstop with an older brother named Glenn who also played in the majors to ever pitch in the bigs.