Take a look at this atrocity.
One of the greatest Texas Rangers of all time. One of the best catchers in the history of Major League Baseball.
In a Yankees uniform.
There is nothing worse than seeing one of your favorite baseball players in that uniform.
I bought a card off Ebay and the seller used about 10 other cards as packing material, including this one. I had never seen this before and now I just can't un-see it.
I'm going to get to see all kinds of Jacoby Ellsbury cards in a Yankee uniform, so I (will) feel your pain.
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain. The same thing occurs every time I see Rickey, Catfish, or Reggie in pinstripes.
ReplyDeleteAmen
DeleteI still cringe at Griffey in a ChiSox uni. So bizarre.
ReplyDeleteI feel that way when I see Nick Johnson in that. As for cards that make you want to stop collecting. It is either the "booklet" things or the multi-fractored things with such a refractory design you can't see or read anything else on the card. Oh and now with the small "base" set w/ 2 or 3 dozen parallel variations PLUS about 2 dozen insert sub-sets. All of which have different unrelated designs and color schemes.
ReplyDeleteFor me Hiroki Kuroda's Dodgers era cards come pretty close.
ReplyDeleteAlthough nothing made me want to quit the hobby more than redemption cards.
On the football side it is me seeing Ronnie Lott or Jerry Rice in a Raiders jersey. Didn't love Jeff Kent enough to get angry at him as a Dodger but the beard being there now kinda sucks.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I "love" seeing A-Fraud in a Yankees uniform because they totally deserve each other.
ReplyDeleteWell..I like your garbage thou.. ;)
ReplyDeleteI hate seeing Ichiro in Yankee's pinstripes and Kevin Durant in a OKC Thunder uniform (Anything connected to Clay Bennett actually). I am with Junior Junkie too, being a Griffey collector and seeing him as a White Sox is weird but I still collect cards from his 44 games in Chicago.
ReplyDeleteDoes it still go in your Pudge binder?
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean here. There are a few yankee cards in the middle of my Virdon collection.
I had one that actually DID stop me from collecting.
ReplyDeleteI spent a long time in the early to mid 80s putting together my Orioles collection. I had every Topps, Bowman, etc from 1954 onward and I added the team set each year as they came out. Then the 1990 Upper Deck Ben McDonald "error" appeared and the price for it hit upwards of $75. No way I was going to pay that and since I couldn't have complete team sets I stopped bothering with cards. Outside of a pack here and there through the years I was out of the hobby (at least the card end of it) for more than 20 years.
For me, it is the Paul Molitor as a Blue Jay or Twin. He is a Brewer and always should be, despite how Tsar Bud treated him in 1993 by pushing him out the door and to a World Series Championship with the Jays.
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