Tuesday, May 5, 2020

baseball's back (on the other side of the world) - pack a lunch!


Baseball is back in South Korea, as the KBO is playing games in empty stadiums. I recently received an awesome mailer from Jim of cards as i see them and gcrl fame. It arrived right as I would have been going to a monthly card show, so it was a very welcome sight indeed. Park Byung-ho has been one of the biggest stars of the KBO, and he briefly played for the Twins, but adjusting MLB pitching combined with a nagging wrist issue resulted in a short tenure for the prodigious slugger.


Jim also tossed in a Tiny Joe Mauer!


This Upper Deck Flyball set was a new one to me, it combines some of the game elements of the sets like Victory on the back and a more traditional card design on the front.


A Rat!


It's a Smalley World after all.


I didn't have this Shane Rawley O-Pee-Chee, but do I call it a Twins card, or a Red Sox card?


Fan Favorite Mickey Hatcher was well represented as well.


As I continue to work on the Topps Heritage set, these two were needs - and these two bat rack (or bat rack adjacent) cards will find a nice home in my collection.


Vintage Harmon Killebrew is always a welcome addition!


In Rod We Trust - This 1978 Gino's Disc was a new one to me!


All of these cards came packaged in a unique way - this lunchbox is branded with Target's name, but it predates Target Field. The players are all Metrodome-Era Twins stars.


Thanks very much Jim, hopefully we'll get to run into each other at a card show again sometime soon. 

Thanks for reading!

9 comments:

  1. First time I've ever seen a blogger send a lunchbox to another blogger. Very cool!

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    1. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
      I know you mentioned the Twins were still playing in the Metrodome at the time, but it's still kind of cool the Target logo is there considering where they play now.

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  2. Cool lunchbox! The '72 Killer is great, and I've seen very few Flyball cards. I'd say the Rawley is a Twins card; most collectors (and websites) go by the team name on the card but I go by what uniform the player is wearing.

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    1. I go by the photo too - Twins card to me

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  3. A lot of those cards came from tribe cards, and Jon from penny sleeves provided the killer so I can't take all the credit. The lunch box was all me though!

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  4. Never seen that 1978 Gino's Disc before. Is that Rod similar in size to the 1977 MSA discs?

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    1. I will have to check to see if I have any 77 MSA discs to compare it to, It's a little bigger than some other discs I have and about the same size as some others.... uh, not very helpful of me!

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