Going back

Sometimes I just go to my pictures archive, when I cannot get to my cards, and re-discover some new things I didn't notice at first.

And it seems Fleer sets are great to do so.

You have all kinds of stuff.

You have situations not so common like a pitcher catching.

Or you simply have cards that you don't even think what comment they deserve because there are not words invented yet to characterize them.

Or you even have those showing off some hair and beard styles from last century that even back then they were simply ugly.

Other seem to hold the world on their shoulders.



But one thing is for sure...What a great set!s

Want some Fleer!?

Some of the items from my last purchase from my euro eBay seller were these 4 packs of the all mighty '81 Fleer.

Since I discovered that those were the best bubble gums I decided I needed to get more packs.

Best gums because they were all so dry that they didn't left the 'gumark' on the cards.

Buying old packs with gums is always somehow a shoot in the dark if they bring gum.

So lets see what I got this time around.

I've already shouted to all Earth corners my love for this set so no need to say that again...I love this set!

On to the cards.

I love the site not only because of the design but because I love all those mustache-players.

Yes, some have mustaches going on beard so bigs that I think the mustache is playing instead of them.

Willis look more of a teddy bear while Landreaux is all style. But with a french-sounding name the mustache had to be quite fashion too.

Tiant and Slaton mustaches are more between the normal parameters we can expect.

In the middle Martinez and Nettles abstain from facial hairiness.

I think that wall behind Hoffman is the Green monster no? What makes me think if the wall behind Slaton is also the Green Monster.

Reggie Cleveland pitched with help of the tummy. I imagine the devastating curve ball effect he could imprint with the motion of the tummy.

Is that Hatcher for sure? Ohhhh

Looking at first to Pryor card I thought he was with Cubs but he was with White Sox. Those vintage uniforms are still confusing to me.

Miller seems disappointed. Did he even hit?

Lentine seems like he's doing no good. Is he hiding something?

Torrez and Frost are two great examples to make us all praise the heavens for upgrading the uniforms since the '80s.

I almost got a perfect match here.

The bottom line I have 3 pitchers all looking to the camera and showing the gloves.

The top line were for the close up portraits if it wasn't for Edwards deciding to throw the ball to the photographer.

Ouch!

Got to love Krukow card.

A pitcher on bases is always cool but a pitcher doing catch is great. The first look I gave to the card I thought he was a catcher doing warm-up. That's why is so important to have the players position on the front of the card...Are you listening Topps!?

Hurdle photo has a woman on the stands showing her legs. For the '80s wasn't it too much? Where's the red circle on the top right corner?

The photographer took Simmons photo right after he fall of the bed no? Those sleepy eyes cannot fool anyone.

Candelaria mustache is ok but those sidebars! Had he let the sidebars grow that much to keep the Pirates cap stuck on the head without flying?

Collins suffers from the same problem of Simmons. Sleepy eyes.

Those Seattle uniforms look too much like pajamas. Which is scary.

Kennedy card even if from the '80s has so much vintage going on. I think it's probably the position he chose to appear on the photo and also the colours.

I think I'm seeing the Green Monster everywhere! Behind Spencer too!

Erickson is doing the motion that we no longer see pitchers doing. At least 99.9% of them.

One of the 4 packs instead of having the presented 17 cards only had 16.

But Gaylord Perry card values 2 or 3 cards so I don't mind.

Again I see GM all the time!

The Brewers and Mariners had uniforms so similar. Was it chipper to get them all looking the same?

Those rainbow Astros are a true '80s thing.

Is Ramirez card presented in those tops for the worst baseball cards ever?

I hope so, because we have to praise his effort to rank #1.

U.L. Washington is trying for the runner-up.

Look at the symmetry I got with Jackson and Brohamer photos.

And I cannot understand it that is Martin's hair or sidebars!?

Those San Diego uniforms make me always think of the Germain team.

Lezcano card is the third I get where the player seems to be playing cricket instead of baseball.

This time around is not the GM but the Cubs Ivy Wall.

Frias is alone in the middle of all those Padres players. Be careful!

And here's the best mustache in town!

Mister Fingers showing off those curly mustache ends. I bet he would be the last one to get on the field because he was turning those mustache ends wayyyyyyyyy up and get them all curly.



So yep, these cards with the previous '81 Fleer post are all the cards of the set I have. Saved from the bloody gum.

1981 Fleer - What a set!

I had my '81 Fleer cards scanned for a while and now I'm showing the first 2 packs.

I loved my '83 Fleer cards for the fashion sense they transmit. But this '81 Fleer set is the design that makes me like it!

The simplicity I'm getting used to see on Fleer sets is precisely the thing that makes me like their sets more and more.

Never mind I got lots of cards way off-centered and bending like making the 'bridge'. Still I love them more!

And the wax era is just great with huge sets and packs that give you 15 or so cards.

First a 4x4.

4 game action cards and 4 portrait cards (or sort of).

Greg Gross OF@PHI - playing against Padres it seems.
Juaquin Andujar P@HOU - looking like the next Enrique Iglesias.
Don Sutton P@LAD - He cannot get the cap well placed on his head because of all that huge mane! An his name reminds me of that French expression "ton sur ton" (if I got it right because my French is something to run off from).
Bill Russell SS@LAD - there is some dust! But it's not enough to make the binder. But really like the small dust cloud and the way the bat is falling from his hand.
Ron LeFlore OF@MTL - Ou know what his nam means? 'The Flower' eheh
Fred Norman P@MTL - the fields back then look like the Snoopy and Charlie Brown field.
John D'Acquisto P@MTL - those jackets make me sweat just by looking at them!
Scott Sanderson P@MTL

Now the group of cards containing two of the best.

Ken Macha 3B@MTL - this 3B is almost in the stands.
Sammy Stewart P@BAL - look! One of the best! Look to all this fashionable wild hair with that thing playing the role of a mustache! Ohhhh got to fall in love!
Benny Ayala OF/DH@BAL
Bob Stanley P@BOS - Bob looks like those young boys going on teenagers and getting all huge arms and legs and almost stumbling on their own feet.
Jerry Remy 2B@BOS
Gene Garber P@ATL - now the second best! Garber has that fluffy beard that makes us women go all...you would cut that off no? There must be someone saying that to him because he's already looking sideways.
Luis Gomez SS@ATL
Bert Campaneris SS@ATL

This photo looks better in a small size than zoomed. Thanks for the blurriness.

Jerry Martin OF@CHC
Randy Martz P@CHC -  a pitcher that throws the ball without setting the front foot on the ground!? That's strange...
Larry Biittner 1B@CHC
Mike Tyson 2B@CHC - I imagine the other Mike Tyson with that mustache/beard...
Pat Zachry P@NYM
Todd Cruz SS@CWS
Harold Baines OF@CWS - nice shoot with the bat and the pipe.
Kent Tekulve P@PIT - and Tekulve wins the award for the uniform and the sunglasses. Can anyone do better than him? Nooooooooo

Bert Blyleven P@PIT - those Pirates' uniforms were the thing back then.
Bo Diaz C@CLE - what a 'bad ass' catcher photo! (can I say that in a PG13 blog?)
Ernie Whitt C@TOR - that's a Pepsodent smile!
Ed Whitson P@SF
Bruce Robbins P@DET - is he calling the catcher to the mound!? I like predicting the plays and situation from this kind of photos.
Ben Oglivie OF@MIL
Buck Martinez C@MIL - he's a dugout catcher.
Keith Hernandez 1B@STL - I don't know why but this is my favourite card from both packs. After the other two best I already mention.

And I finish with the last two cards.

Rickey Henderson OF@OAK - I think it's the first card I get of Henderson that he's posing to the photo.
Ed Figueroa P@TEX

Look how off centered this cards are. They are even cuter that way or not!?



It took me around a week to get this post done. I'm really losing to the 'real world'.

Paul Molitor - Woman Perspective Post (Vintage Edition)

I said and I'm here to carry out my Woman Perspective post about Paul Molitor.

This is also my first vintage edition of WP post because is about a player no longer playing.

I searched my list of cards and I found only two Paul Molitor cards.

SHAME ON ME!

But since one of the cards have not 1, not 2 but 4 pictures of Paul(!) I'm happy.

But before I show that card, I'll show the first Paul Molitor card I got ever.

2012 Topps GS-3

Not that spectacular or anything else.

And it's a photo from he's last years as a player and he's not even looking at me...

I confess I didn't pay much attention to him by looking at this card.

Not in the way to make a WP post. But I did notice he is a HOFer with merit.

But then all this was surpassed by this next card.

1991 Fleer Ultra #178

Oh my dear...

He is ready to eat that Fleer Ultra logo!

And talk about tight trousers...

And he has something that the majority of sport players don't have: hair.

Look at those hairy arms!

If he gets to DL and needs a massage it wouldn't be easy with all that hair.

But if it wasn't enough I turned the card and...

TONGUE!

I even put the image bigger so you can see it better.

He's sticking out he's tongue to me!

Yep Paul. You got me there.

If Paul wanted he could be a NHL player. Those have some fetish with sticking out tongues. Or the people who takes their photos to put on cards.

The other 2 smaller photos show me he looks athletic.

And I must confess...He reminds me of an old love I had back in college.

I wish I could have this card of him:

2005 Topps Rookie Cup #40 (don't care about the colour)

Or this one...

2009 Topps Tribute #48

Or even this...

2010 Topps Cards Your Mom Threw Out #CMT86

But specially this:

If I could get this card, the '81 Topps Paul Molitor card, my Christmas would be perfect!


And to end this post, just one more photo.