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10 Facts About Hank Webb
Edgy MD Jul 30 2013 08:44 AM |
1. A 1973 Met, if only for two appearances.
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batmagadanleadoff Jul 30 2013 09:29 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
Did anybody here collect baseball cards in 1975?
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batmagadanleadoff Jul 30 2013 09:35 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
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Well? Anybody?
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Edgy MD Jul 30 2013 09:36 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
Yes, sir, I did.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 30 2013 09:44 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
I have about 10 billion '75 cards in a box at home, including all those 3 pictured.
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batmagadanleadoff Jul 30 2013 09:54 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
In 1975, as in all other years from that era, you could buy your baseball cards in a retail store, typically a candy store or luncheonette type deal. The cards usualy came in packs of 10, and the packs themselves were contained in a rectangular vendor's box. The boxes would usually depict either a baseball superstar of the day or a generic make-believe baseball player.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 30 2013 10:00 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
wOw
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batmagadanleadoff Jul 30 2013 10:01 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
This thread now goes to 11!
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HahnSolo Jul 30 2013 10:09 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
Awesome find.
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Edgy MD Jul 30 2013 10:17 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
Does your collection include vendor boxes?
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batmagadanleadoff Jul 30 2013 10:31 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
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I collect only Mets cards. But yes, I have the Webb box, and some other boxes featuring Mets. The 1970 Topps box features a 1970 style Tom Seaver baseball card, but not the actual Seaver card from that set. There's a mid-1980's Fleer box featuring Gary Carter, too. The Webb Topps box is one of the oddest pieces of Mets memorabilia I've ever come across. Topps' decision to feature Webb on that box defies explanation.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 30 2013 10:36 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
For many years I stored my cards in a cardboard Topps shipping box, probably from 75 or 76. I had to toss it when the box disintergrated on me.
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metsguyinmichigan Jul 30 2013 08:38 PM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
That was my fourth year of collecting, but the second year of all-out obsessive collecting that only an 11-year-old can muster!
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Zvon Jul 30 2013 08:59 PM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
My brothers all have collected boxes as well as wax. One has a real nice ...I think its '58 wax. I always knew there was a Met on the 75 box but I didn't think it was Webb. I thought it was a generic Met.
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batmagadanleadoff Jul 30 2013 09:55 PM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
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Your theory makes more sense to me. Mets Card of the Week: 1975 Hank Webb box October 3, 2012 By Doug Parker
http://mets360.com/?p=13061
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batmagadanleadoff Jul 31 2013 10:16 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
The Mets were everywhere in the year or so following their Miracle of '69. Even Art Shamsky made the cover of a national fashion magazine, sharing the front page with fashion supermodel Lauern Hutton.
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Edgy MD Jul 31 2013 10:23 AM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
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If I was told that was modeled on an actual 1969 Met, and had to geuss which one, I'd go with Ken Boswell --- or more specifically, Ken Boswell committing harikari with the jagged point of his broken bat.
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Zvon Jul 31 2013 02:24 PM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
Boswell had the burns. He may have been the first guy I ever saw where I thought : when I grow up I want side burns like his.
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Zvon Aug 02 2013 02:22 PM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
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Edgy MD Aug 02 2013 02:28 PM Re: 10 Facts About Hank Webb |
That's a good eye, and I'd say you were right on --- the sideburns are even right --- but Heise didn't bat lefty.
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