Friday, July 9, 2010

Vintage Fridays: Jim Palmer, 1973 Topps #341


I thought this card, featuring a young Jim Palmer taking a dip, was perfect for a leisurely summer day.

4 comments:

  1. Corey Patterson jackin a two-out grand salami in the 9th to tie it up? Brilliant!

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  2. William - I wish I would have stayed up for that. As it was, I settled for obsessively flicking between SportsCenter and ESPNews until I found the highlights.

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  3. i am sure earl weaver thinks jim looks like a smug ass even as an 8 year old...

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  4. Max - Darn right. When Earl was a kid, he had to walk uphill 2 miles in the heat both ways just to get a pack of smokes at the corner store.

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