Friday, January 17, 2014

Going Batty

I'm not a professional baseball player, but...




I'm pretty sure you need two hands on the bat to be an effective hitter.  What do I know?  Julio Franco had just put up 172 hits for a .296 average so maybe he knows more about hitting than I do.




What about Jeff Frye?  He didn't even bother to use a whole bat!

These next two cards intrigue me.




This 1996 Leaf Mickey Tettleton shows Mickey holding the remains of bat.



This 1996 Pacific card shows Mickey about a millisecond later in the same at bat.  I've seen this on other blogs and I always found it fascinating when someone would find the same action on two different cards. This one even crosses manufacturers and I like it.

These cards came as part of a large package from Howard over at Wanted: Baseball Cards.  This is nowhere near all the cards Howard sent over and I do have another post or two planned for some of them.

Thanks for the great package Howard!

2 comments:

  1. That Julio Franco shot was taken shortly after baseball banned him from using actual logs as baseball bats. As you can see, adapting the hand position for a little twig bat like that took some time.

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  2. LOL, now u guys know he was asking for time out. As for the the "repeated" at bat by different card companies, my guess is that the photog was a freelancer and sold both companies "their" shot. I too like that, just so long as its only a couple of cards for a given year.

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