Sunday, March 29, 2020

Light at the end of the tunnel

Still no baseball games of any sort [sob]. Just playing various baseball video games and going through my baseball card collection.

As far as my baseball card collection. As almost always focusing on Cubs Team sets. I just need 2002 and 2003 Topps Cubs team sets to fill my team shelves (and about 15 more bins to put the rest of the sets in). Looking now at how to acquire these for the best price/quality.
I am not sold on the 2002 Topps. Although a very interesting design, I am considering the 2002 Fleer as a replacement for Topps 2002. Why? Simply because it is a better looking set. My opinion of course, but I think the blue on blue looks awesome. Additional goals, I'm also looking to complete my 1981 Fleer and Topps for Cubs and White Sox. 1981 Topps is almost complete and need quite a few for Fleer. http://mrgibson.com/baseballp.php?year=1981
Also I need 5 more cards for my 1983 Topps Cubs. I'm lucky to have the 9 core cards. http://mrgibson.com/baseballp.php?year=1983
Lastly, I wold like to complete my Topps 1959 Cubs team set.

Every Cubs Catcher from 1874 to 2020


Player Name          Year(s) Played
Fergy Malone         1874
Henry Gilroy         1874
Terry Connell        1874
Dick Higham          1875
Scott Hastings       1875
Deacon White         1876
Bill Traffley        1878
Phil Powers          1878
William Harbridge    1878-1879
Tom Dolan            1879
Lew Brown            1879
Silver Flint         1879-1889
Sy Sutcliffe         1884-1885
Jim McCauley         1885
Bill Krieg           1885
Ed Gastfield         1885
George Moolic        1886
Lou Hardie           1886
Tom Daly             1887-1888
Dell Darling         1887-1889
Duke Farrell         1888-1889
Pete Sommers         1889
Jake Stenzel         1890
Chuck Lauer          1890
Tom Nagle            1890-1891
Marty Honan          1890-1891
Malachi Kittridge    1890-1898
Bill Merritt         1891
Bill Bowman          1891
Pop Schriver         1891-1894
Bill Moran           1895
Tim Donahue          1895-1900
Con Daily            1896
Art Nichols          1898-1900
Roger Bresnahan      1900, 1913-1915
Johnny Kling         1900-1911
Mike Kahoe           1901-1902, 1907
Pete Lamer           1902
Tommy Raub           1903
Larry McLean         1903
Peaches Graham       1903, 1911
Tom Stanton          1904
Fred Holmes          1904
Jack O'Neill         1904-1905
Tom Walsh            1906
Pete Noonan          1906
Pat Moran            1906-1909
Jack Hardy           1907
Doc Marshall         1908
Tom Needham          1909-1914
Jimmy Archer         1909-1917
George Yantz         1912
Dick Cotter          1912
Harry Chapman        1912
Mike Hechinger       1912-1913
Bubbles Hargrave     1913-1915
Earl Tyree           1914
Jack Wallace         1915
Bob O'Farrell        1915-1925, 1934
Johnny O'Connor      1916
William Fischer      1916
Clem Clemens         1916
Nick Allen           1916
Art Wilson           1916-1917
Rowdy Elliott        1916-1918
Pickles Dillhoefer   1917
Tommy Clarke         1918
Bill Killefer        1918-1921
Tom Daly             1918-1921
Kettle Wirts         1921-1923
Gabby Hartnett       1922-1940
John Churry          1924-1927
Mike Gonzalez        1925-1929
Johnny Schulte       1929
Tom Angley           1929
Earl Grace           1929-1931
Zack Taylor          1929-1933
Rollie Hemsley       1931-1932
Gilly Campbell       1933
Babe Phelps          1933-1934
Bennie Tate          1934
Walter Stephenson    1935-1936
Ken O'Dea            1935-1938
John Bottarini       1937
Bob Garbark          1937-1939
Gus Mancuso          1939
Bob Collins          1940
Al Todd              1940-1943
Clyde McCullough     1940-1948, 1953-1956
Greek George         1941
Bob Scheffing        1941-1950
Marv Felderman       1942
Chico Hernandez      1942-1943
Paul Gillespie       1942-1945
Mickey Kreitner      1943-1944
Billy Holm           1943-1944
Mickey Livingston    1943-1947
Joe Stephenson       1944
Roy Easterwood       1944
Dewey Williams       1944-1947
Len Rice             1945
Ted Pawelek          1946
Rube Walker          1948-1951
Carl Sawatski        1948-1953
Rube Novotney        1949
Mickey Owen          1949-1951
Smoky Burgess        1949-1951
Harry Chiti          1950-1956
Bruce Edwards        1951-1954
Johnny Pramesa       1952
Toby Atwell          1952-1953
Joe Garagiola        1953-1954
Walker Cooper        1954-1955
Jim Fanning          1954-1957
El Tappe             1954-1962
Hobie Landrith       1956
Charles Silvera      1957
Gordon Massa         1957-1958
Cal Neeman           1957-1960
Moe Thacker          1958-1962
Sammy Taylor         1958-1962
Earl Averill         1959-1960
Del Rice             1960
Jim Hegan            1960
Dick Bertell         1960-1965, 1967
Cuno Barragan        1961-1963
Jimmie Schaffer      1963-1964
Merritt Ranew        1963-1964
Vic Roznovsky        1964-1965
Ed Bailey            1965
Chris Krug           1965-1966
Don Bryant           1966
Randy Hundley        1966-1973, 1976-1977
John Stephenson      1967-1968
Bill Plummer         1968
John Felske          1968
Gene Oliver          1968-1969
Randy Bobb           1968-1969
Bill Heath           1969
John Hairston        1969
Ken Rudolph          1969-1973
Jack Hiatt           1970
Adrian Garrett       1970, 1973-1975
J.C. Martin          1970-1972
Chris Cannizzaro     1971
Danny Breeden        1971
Frank Fernandez      1971-1972
Elrod Hendricks      1972
Tom Lundstedt        1973-1974
Rick Stelmaszek      1974
Steve Swisher        1974-1977
George Mitterwald    1974-1977
Tim Hosley           1975-1976
Mike Gordon          1977-1978
Dave Rader           1978
Larry Cox            1978, 1982
Tim Blackwell        1978-1981
Bruce Kimm           1979
Barry Foote          1979-1981
Mike O'Berry         1980
Bill Hayes           1980-1981
Jody Davis           1981-1988
Butch Benton         1982
Mike Diaz            1983
Steve Lake           1983-1986, 1993
Ron Hassey           1984
Mike Martin          1986
Steve Christmas      1986
Jim Sundberg         1987-1988
Damon Berryhill      1987-1991
Rick Wrona           1988-1990
Joe Girardi          1989-1992, 2000-2002
Hector Villanueva    1990-1992
Erik Pappas          1991
Rick Wilkins         1991-1995
Jorge Pedre          1992
Matt Walbeck         1993
Mark Parent          1994-1995
Todd Pratt           1995
Joe Kmak             1995
Mike Hubbard         1995-1997
Scott Servais        1995-1998
Brian Dorsett        1996
Tyler Houston        1996-1999
Sandy Martinez       1998-1999
Benito Santiago      1999
Jose Molina          1999
Jeff Reed            1999-2000
Mike Mahoney         2000, 2002, 2006
Robert Machado       2001-2002
Todd Hundley         2001-2002
Josh Paul            2003
Damian Miller        2003
Paul Bako            2003-2004, 2009
Mike DiFelice        2004
Michael Barrett      2004-2007
Henry Blanco         2005-2008
Geovany Soto         2005-2012
Jose Reyes           2006
Koyie Hill           2006-2012
Jason Kendall        2007
Rob Bowen            2007
Welington Castillo   2008-2015
Steve Clevenger      2009-2013
Blake Lalli          2010-2012
Taylor Davis         2011, 2013-2019
Raffy Lopez          2011-2015
Anthony Recker       2012
Dioner Navarro       2012-2013
J.C. Boscan          2012-2013
Willson Contreras    2012-2020 (Present)
Eli Whiteside        2013-2014
John Baker           2013-2014
Taylor Teagarden     2014-2015
David Ross           2014-2016
Miguel Montero       2014-2017
Victor Caratini      2014-2020 (Present)
Tim Federowicz       2016
Rene Rivera          2017
Alex Avila           2017
Chris Gimenez        2018
Martin Maldonado     2019
Jonathan Lucroy      2019


Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Completed my Cubs Topps 2014

I don't know why it took so long, but I have completed my 2014 Cubs Team set with 26 cards. Possibly because I have been obsessed with my Cubs 50s and 60s sets. But the fact is I love Topps Standard 2014 cards and the variants. It is truly one of Topps better modern sets.



Full listing can be seen on the below link:
http://mrgibson.com/baseball2.php?team=cubs&year=2014

Friday, March 6, 2020

My Top 58 best Cub sets - 7 worst

Below is a list of 60 Cubs Team sets that I adore

Rank Set       Year   What is great_____________
  1  Topps     1965   5 great Players, design
  2  Topps     1983   Sandberg Rookie, design
  3  Topps     1984   Players Design
  4  Topps     1967   blue skies design
  5  Topps     2016   World series team
  6  Topps     2017   World series
  7  Topps     2018   great design
  8  Topps     2014   love the alternates within
  9  Topps     1958   simple and fun
 10  Fleer     1990   simple
 11  Topps     1960   colorful in goofy way
 12  Topps     1961   colorful with two HoF rookies
 12  Fleer LL  1986   fan of stripes
 13  Topps     1962   Brock rookie
 14  Topps     1963   lots of greats and great design
 15  Topps     1964   clean
 16  Topps     1968   different
 17  Topps     1969   67 with circles 
 18  Topps     1970   clean
 19  Topps     1971   dark 64
 20  Topps Big 1988   back to great
 21  Topps Big 1989   back to great tweaked
 22  Topps     1973  
 23  Topps     1974  
 24  Topps     1975  
 25  Topps     1976  
 26  Topps     1977  
 27  Topps     1978  
 28  Topps     1979  
 29  Topps     1980
 30  Topps Bow 1989
 31  UpperDeck 1989  
 32  Topps     1981  
 33  Topps     1982  
 34  Topps     1985  
 35  Topps     1986  
 36  Topps     1987  
 37  Donruss   1987  
 38  Topps     1988  
 39  Fleer     1988  
 40  Topps     1989  
 41  Fleer     1989  fan of stripes  
 42  Donruss   1989  colorful spectrum
 43  UpperDeck 1990  classic tweaked
 44  Topps     1991
 45  Fleer     1991
 46  Topps     1992
 47  Donruss   1992
 48  Topps     1993
 49  Donruss   1993
 50  Donruss   1994
 51  Donruss   1995
 52  Topps     1996
 53  Topps     1998
 54  Topps     1999
 55  Topps     2000
 56  Topps     2009
 57  Topps     2010
 58  Topps     2011

---- Least favorite I'm pointing out

 1   Topps     1966  Why orange, why?
 2   Topps     1997  better green might have been more apealing
 3   Topps     1994  great players, just ugly set
 4   Topps     2015  Loud and busy
 5   Topps     1990  trying too hard
 6   Topps     1972  early 70s tacky
 7   Donruss   1990  yeah...

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