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Cards from Night Owl!

A few days ago, I received a bubbleope from Greg over at Night Owl.  Inside was a fine collection of Tribe cards that covered several years and different brands, types, players, and more!

Brad Komminsk played one season with the Tribe (1989) and later went on to manage the Akron Aeros. Tom Couston is the man that helped bring Jim Thome to the bigs. CC Shows off on some Topps Chrome while Aaron Laffey winds up on a 2009 O-Pee-Chee.  I am a fan of the holographic cards, especially the "Grand Slam" variety from Denny's!  Greg included several 2010 Topps in here too!  I have to say, I sure do like the '10 design.  For good measure, we've got Thome himself as youngster.

In the next group, we've got Attax, Topps Regular, some UDX, and a Gallery.  I love the Gallery cards, especially the older ones that actually felt like canvas.  Even though Branyan's is not one of those, it is a very cool card!  What can I say about Wood?  Welcome to the Tribe, the end of your career.  I love my Indians, but I am also a realist: players come to be born here or to die here, passing through the Cleveland farm system either on to greater things to their MLB retirement.  The great thing is that we Tribe fans can say "so-and-so" was a Triber once!

Oh, yeah! We've got Blake, Dilone, Choo, Peralta and Pronk!  Throw in the others and we've rounded out an eclectic collection of Cleveland clubbers!

THANK YOU, Night Owl, for some GREAT Tribecards!!

Congratulations to Cam!

Hey everyone!  I just ran the random.org list generator and it selected CAM HARTMAN as the winner of the Classics vs Currents participation drawing.  His good luck has brought him a computer version of the Strat-O-Matic baseball game!  CONGRATULATIONS! 

Again, thanks to everyone that played in this year's tournament!  I am hoping to run another one of these next year, and in the meantime, I will be holding an off-season tournament later this year.  Hopefully, I'll have a better grasp on the game and will be able to let the managers choose their own line-ups etc!

Stay tuned to Tribecards for more Indians card related posts. Time to get back on track. Kinda like the Tribe themselves.

Bo Knows Tribecards

During the Tribe-O-Matic Tourney, I received an envelope from Bo!  Now that the dust has settled a bit, let's take a look inside:

Kevin Bearse rookie Bowman card. 1990 was the only season in which he played.  He pitched in 3 games (7.3 IP) and garnered a whopping 12.91 ERA.  Hey, for $100,000, I'd happily pitch seven innings for the Tribe!  Then, we have Herb Perry's UD Prospect card. He played three seasons with the Tribe. His 2nd season was his best with a .315 AVG.  And then there was V-Mart. He played 8 seasons with the Indians, and I hated to see him get booted during the fire sale that is the Indians management strategy.

 

Up next, Thomas Howard on Topps Gold. Howard played most of '92 and part of '93 with the Indians. He averaged close to .250 with 55 RBIs.  In 1993, he was traded for Randy Milligan. Yeah, I don't remember Milligan either.  Cory Snyder, however, is one of the All-Time Tribe fan favorites.  He played with the Tribe for nearly five seasons. 

Albert Belle finishes up the gift from Bo! Belle (Joey to his friends) played eight seasons for the Tribe.  Much like my appreciation of Michael Jackson, I appreciate Belle's baseball career aside from his personal shenanigans.

Gint-A-Cuffs II Coming soon!

Gint-A-Cuffs II is almost here!  I have NO idea what that means.  I do have an idea, though. I think it means a chance to win free cards by earning points.  How do you earn points? I have no idea.  Once you earn points, how do you tell someone? I have no idea.  Will I be participating this year? I am hoping so.  Then, of course, there are the other questions that run through one's mind... "Namely, how do I find the Count? Once I do, how do I find you again? Once I find you again, how do I escape?"

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