Somewhere during the 1980 baseball season, I became aware of a player named "Mookie." Mookie! What a terrific name. You just didn't come across unusual first names like you do these days (every day at my workplace, it's like: "OK, so that's how we're spelling 'Jasmine' now?"). Mookie was called up to the Mets in September of 1980 and, wow, was it different viewing someone named "Mookie" on my television. This card is practically iconic, thanks to the arrival of Mookie Wilson on cardboard. But it still wasn't as fantastic as this card: I pulled this card of this Mookie character in one of the first packs of 1981 Donruss I ever bought. I was entranced. I mean, what decade was this? Cards by something called "Donruss"? Players named "Mookie"? Man, the '80s are gonna be weird! For years I hoped that somehow the Mets would trade Mookie Wilson to the Dodgers. I liked speedsters anyw...
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