Yankees Lineup, September 30 1978

I think this was in the game day program you got at the park. My brother in law is a big deal and likes the Yankees a lot so maybe it's something he got for us, but anyway here's a real piece of ephemera- a typed sheet with the Yankees and Cleveland Indians line-ups. This was the epic stretch where the Red Sox choked and then battled back to force a one game playoff against the Yankees which was decided by a home run by Bucky F. Dent.

For the record, I stayed home from school to watch that playoff game. My older brother got home just as the game was getting to the later innings, right before Dent came up. He literally said "Bucky's gonna crank one." Not sure if I was more mad or amazed, and the rest is history.

The names on this are amazing- Mickey Rivers, Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson, Craig Nettles, Roy White, Chris Chambliss.

JJ Nissen Baseball Card- Don Mattingly

This is card #4 from the 1989 JJ Nissen Superstars collection.
Nissen is (was?) a New England bread company that each year (at least a few times) issued a series of "superstar" baseball cards. Get one in each loaf. (Not actually IN the bread, but that would have been fun).

My parents knew I liked baseball cards at this time actually saved the cards for me from their bread. I think the cards are super cool because my parents took the time to set them aside for me, but also because they are so super low-budget- they obviously bought the rights to the players from the player association, but not the full license from MLB, so the players don't have any team logos on them.

1988 Topps Mini Leaders #16 Danny Tartabull

Danny Tartabull. Son of a major leaguer and dead beat Dad. He once called the police because his car was broken into and was arrested. He was a fugitive at the time because he owed $270,000 in child support according to this article

Rickey Henderson 1988 Starting Lineup Talking Baseball All-Stars

Rickey Henderson
1988 Starting Lineup Talking Baseball All-Stars - Electronic Game American League #23

So I'm going to start taking these cards a little more seriously! I literally have boxes and boxes of them and I found this one just sitting around and scanned it and then googled it to find out what it actually is. Someone is selling one over on Amazon for almost fifty dollars!

True, I could list it for a million dollars, the actual value is what someone will pay, but still, I was pretty sure all cards from the late 1980s were pretty worthless. Looks like I'll be on eBay tonight!

The card is a lot better off than the scan shows, and I got lazy and didn't bother to fix the fact it only scanned some of the back.

I loved Rickey Henderson, glad to see his face smiling up at me, hopefully it's a $50 smile!

1988 Topps Mini Leaders #29 Dave Righetti

Here's the front and back of another Topps mini card from 1988. Dave "Rags" Righetti. I don't know if the scanner needed a wipe down or if the card itself has some issues, but it looked pretty good to the naked eye and yet looks like it has some issues in the scan.