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Cards of Ages

theaudible:

Junior’s card got me thinking about the all-time sweetest cards. With apologies to Fuck Face I’m gonna have to go with Big Cecil chillin’ w/ the Famous Chicken.

ok—so this could get interesting. favorite baseball cards of all time?

clearly Fuck Face, as “the audible” mentions, is something of a legend.

and I give the audible big cred for digging out Cecil and the Bird

now i know i’ll want to amend this later, but i can’t stop thinking about the 1987 Topps Bo Jackson Future Stars. it somehow captures the potential energy of young Bo’s career—one that would serve as manifestation of our outsized American dreams. on the warning track, eyes on the deep fly ball, Bo no doubt ready to gun down with a ground level missile the runner tagging from 3rd. not to mention the ‘87 Topps designs—without question the most endearingly ugly of all time. the wood panel border, the dull rainbow fade in the “future stars” font. any guy b/w the ages of 26-34, i’d guess, could immediately summon the image of this card.

i’ve never before sought a “reblog,” but this is clearly way too important to me, and i’m awfully curious what other old cardboard gems could be dug out of the memory banks…