Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Type Site: '59 Topps (one f/g card at a time)

It's been a while since the last shout out to a blog follower's own blog, so let's fix that oversight! Today's profile features '59 Topps, a card-by-card profile of Commishbob's complete 1959 set.


Commishbob started blogging this set on Feb 13 with his favorite player, #472 Brooks Robinson. Each post discusses a card and what he remembers of the player or team. Here's a key piece for Brooks.
As I mentioned Brooks is my favorite baseball player. My twin sons are named for him and Jim Palmer. We've met Brooks several times and he's as nice as his reputation. When a small story appeared in the Baltimore Sun about my sons carrying the names of Oriole stars Brooks came up with my address and sent us signed pictures.

Brooks also holds a special place in my heart as the first guy to reply to questions I sent as a 13 year-old back in 1985. (Scan of his answers in my 1973 Johnny Pro Orioles profile.) Plus, he wore uniform #5--win/win.

Commishbob is a blogging machine, clocking in at 113 card profiles since that first February post. Check out '59 Topps for more!

2 comments:

Commishbob said...

Thanks for the nod, Matthew. I've been enjoying your posts for awhile. Nice way to see a variety of card issues, some for the first time.

I've got that Johnny Pro Orioles set. But way back when I got them I trimmed about a quarter inch off each card to make them fit in the binder pages. Not much but enough to now make me feel like I 'botched' them. LOL

Matthew Glidden said...

Oh yeah, those Johnny Pro cards don't fit right in anything! Can hardly blame you. :-)