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Sick scoreboard card, pt. 2

Oh, yes. I did go there. I was trying to think of a title for my new series on scoreboard cards. I wanted to try to tie it in with the "awesome night card" title somehow. So, I thought, why not use one of the most despised, over-used, ridiculous words ever uttered in conjunction with rectangular cardboard pieces? Then I would be using that irksome word for purposes of good rather than evil. I'd also be using "sick" to describe a common-variety base card. Wouldn't that make a mojo jojo's head explode? So that's what I'm gonna do. Like "awesome," "sick" is a word I rarely use in public, unless someone I know is running a temperature. But on the blog? Anything goes, kiddies. Today's SICK scoreboard card is the 1981 Fleer Rich Gale card. I like this particular card because it shows Exhibition Stadium's SICK scoreboard. Exhibition Stadium was the Blue Jays' home for their first 10-plus years of existence. It was SIC...