#18 Davey Lopes
by delias man on Nov 28, 2010 12:20 PM PST
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The long anticipated return of the countdown takes us to Davey Lopes. Topps gave us a Davey Lopes rookie card, and made him share the card with 2 other guys. The card design is very lackluster. White background with blue and black font. Three nice, tight little face shots of each player is about all there is room for. Another rarity, graded PSA 9. There are 11 of these, with only 2 PSA 10's.
Gotta love these hats, right? The ugliest Braves hat in their history combined with the boringest Brewers hat in their history. Blanks and Garcia were just as bad as those hats in their playing careers. Davey by far had the greatest career of these 3 players.
| WAR | OPS+ | Seasons | |
| Blanks | 0.7 | 78 | 9 |
| Lopes | 39.3 | 106 | 16 |
| Garcia | -2.4 | 75 | 5 |
If anybody can think of a worse 1970's era hat than that Braves hat above, please put your pick in the thread!
There will be more Lopes, and more 73 Topps later on in the countdown........
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Fine effort
Delias man.
I’m not a fan of Davey Lopes without the stache, but what are you gonna do?
That Brewers hat is worse than the Braves hat, IMO.
I used to collect baseball cards
but haven’t since probably 2002. Anyways, I picked up a beckett yesterday and noticed that there were very few sets in 2010. 2009 had about 8 pages worth of prices and had probaby 8 major brands, but in 2010 there were only like 4 pages and the only brands I saw were Bowman, Topps, and Upper deck (I may be missing 1 more, but there was definitly no Donruss, Fleer, SP, etc). Were there mergers that occured in 2010 or did a few brands go under?
Topps has the only MLBPA license
MLB is trying to clean up the card industry. Upper Deck also had a huge scandal in autographs and ugiho(sp?) cards that wrecked it’s credibility and they have lost a lot of money. Fleer was bought by UD I think before they got hurt. The UD cards now have no logos and no team names on the cards anywhere. Therefore, they suck.
Interesting
Bowman is owned by Topps right?
by Brandon Lennox on Nov 28, 2010 6:39 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah I remember paying about $12 per pack for Bowman 1992 back when that set was popular. In fact, my only graded card is a Bowman 1992 Pedro Martinez, and I remember being extremely pissed it got a 8.5 because it looked perfect to me
by Brandon Lennox on Nov 28, 2010 9:32 PM PST up reply actions
1973 Topps, first complete set I put together myself. [Pats self on back].
And yes, those are the ugliest Braves caps ever, although the 1936-39 versions are jarring because of the blue and gold colors.
"Baseball is the heart of America, I would never do anything to besmirch our National Pastime."
by Little Blue Bicycle on Nov 29, 2010 6:09 AM PST reply actions
Montreal
I’m sure people have a love or hate relationship with these. I actually had one as a kid in the very early 70s, just thought it was cool to have a cap of a brand new team, and theirs was the best of the four late-60s expansion teams, IMO at the time.
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