Moments Frozen in Time

by banny - 57 cards (Last updated on Apr 16, 2021)


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Mar 30, 2016 - 2:34PM
C2Cigars
#1 is wrong. That's an Oakland Athletics uniform.
Mar 30, 2016 - 2:38PM
C2Cigars
#3; it's spelled "Vic Davalillo"
Mar 30, 2016 - 2:51PM
banny
Corrected. I was thinking Kansas City A's, and wrote Royals. Also, it's Chuck Dobson, not Pat.
Mar 30, 2016 - 10:19PM
switzr1
This is one of my favorite lists on here. Was a lot of fun to read. Keep up the good work!
Mar 31, 2016 - 11:51PM
kcjays
Wow! I'm impressed. I agree with switzr1, a lot of fun to read.
Apr 1, 2016 - 11:07AM
dilemma19
Fantastic list, and very impressive detective work! I'm planning to steal a couple of these cards to add to my "HOF photobombs" list... I wonder if Topps deliberately used a photo from Buchholz's no-hitter, which they also mention in the blurb on the back.
Apr 2, 2016 - 12:48AM
volbox
George Brett Topps 93 (or 94?) card shows the scoreboard, should be easy to pinpoint.
Apr 2, 2016 - 9:20AM
C2Cigars
#20; That's #3 on the uniform, not 23. So it's Billy DeMars. BTW, Oscar Gamble joined the Phillies after the end of the 1969 season.
Apr 3, 2016 - 12:35AM
volbox
1994 UD #362 CHris Hammond (June 6 vs Padres, McGriff out at first) Also, doesn't the squirrel card qualify? I had searched a few but i cant remember them.
Apr 10, 2016 - 8:24PM
DarkSide830
Er...#22 "Miggy" Montero played for the D-Backs, not the Angels in 2013. Oh, and I love that card.
Apr 11, 2016 - 6:31AM
banny
Card #22 has been corrected. Thank you.
Sep 29, 2016 - 5:00PM
rmpaq5
This list is just awesome!
Sep 30, 2016 - 4:18PM
pistonfan
I think #8 is August 24, 1991. Raines stole second in that game, and it was the only game Chicago played at Cleveland that was a day game.
Oct 1, 2016 - 3:13PM
banny
#8 is updated, thank you, Pistonfan.
Nov 22, 2017 - 9:30AM
Joeyd011

Great work, your time and effort to research the specific games on each card is awesome.  There are a lot of great action shots here captured perfectly by the photographers, and many are definitely worth collecting for in my opinion.  There is an interesting article from 'Sports Collectors Digest' that includes an interview with former Topps employee Butch Jacobs, who described the process of how the photos for each individual card were selected from back in the 70's and 80's.  Looking forward in revisiting your list once updated again.  

Nov 22, 2017 - 12:27PM
IfbBirdsCards

Great list here. Of course, the only two times the Orioles are involved, is when they’re losing. Even former Oriole JJ Hardy couldn’t get on the positive side of things with the Brewers.

Nov 25, 2017 - 7:41PM
IfbBirdsCards

A suggestion: http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/134018/cid/9466307/2017-Topps-226-Logan-Morrison

Morrison rounds third on his way to scoring. Kyle Seager awaits a late relay throw.

Sep 11, 2018 - 7:04PM
steveinphilly

This series is great!  I disagree with your assessment of the 1973 Chris Speier card as being July  14, 1972 because that was a night game.  However, it could have been July 15, 1972, a day game in which Speier hit an inside the park home run with John Bateman (#6) catching and a skinny white guy Ed Goodson on deck.  The fellow on the left of the photo looks like a skinny white guy and seems to be angled to be getting a closer look at the play.  And the third baseman is looking a bit casual, which he might be doing if there was no one else coming around the bases behind Speier.  Finally, check out this picture in the Bakersfield newspaper, which sure looks a lot like the same play:  https://newspaperarchive.com/bakersfield-californian-jul-16-1972-p-28/

 

The funny thing is the paper describes the catcher as Tim McCarver but the boxscore shows it was Bateman.

However, we have the problem that the Phillies third baseman Don Money wore #16 that year.  Later in the season they called up Craig Robinson who played 3B and wore #18, but he never played in SF that season.  The 3B on the card is clearly wearing #18.

I thought maybe the play was instead from June 5, 1971, or game 2 of June 6, 1971, both games when the Phillies 3B was Bobby Pfeill, who wore #18.  But in both games the Phillies catcher was Irish Mike Ryan, who wore #9.  On June 5, Speier scored from first on a double where there was no play at 3B so Pfeill could have been looking relaxed there.  But the on deck hitter was Bobby Bonds, and that doesn’t look like him on the card.  On June 6 in a game they were losing 2-0 in the 8th, Speier scored on a groundout to first base with another runner going from 2nd to 3rd.  The on-deck hitter was Tito Fuentes, a dark-skinned Cuban, so I don’t think that is him on the card.  So on these two plays, we have the right uniform # at 3B but the wrong one at C, and the on deck hitter doesn’t seem to match the baseball card.  Plus the play was from a year earlier.

Money and Pfeill were the same height and had similar weights.  Pfeill left after 1971 and no one wore #18 until that September.  Maybe Money had a wardrobe issue and wore #18 that series on the road.  OTOH, in 1971 Tony Taylor wore #8 and McCarver wore #6, and both were veterans, so there was no way Mike Ryan was wearing one of those numbers.  Plus McCarver caught and Taylor played in that series.  So I think we have to assume that wasn’t Mike Ryan wearing the wrong jersey and it wasn’t 1971.  So I say that is July 15, 1972, John Bateman is the catcher, and Don Money is wearing the wrong number on that baseball card.

Sep 12, 2018 - 5:54AM
banny

  Good detective work, steveinphilly.   July 15th, 1972 is likely the correct date, especially with the inside the park homer, and the write up in the Bakersfield paper.  Thanks.

Apr 13, 2021 - 11:00AM
mkb

This is really cool!

Apr 15, 2021 - 5:22PM
theFalcon

I'm glad this list has popped up recently ... I thought about creating one like it, but you saved me from a lot of work instead!

Regarding the '65 WS card, Ellie Howard was catching for the Yankees, not Ellie Hendricks.  Also, someone posted a comment connected to the '73 Johnny Ellis card and I agree with it.

If you're looking for more examples, this one is at Jarry Park on 4/18/1973 -

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/64028/cid/4226852/1993-Donruss-McDonald's-Montreal-Expos-25th-Anniversary-27-Steve-Renko



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