I Made Some Critical Acquisitions To My Funny Baseball Card Collection

It's only been a couple weeks since I publicly revealed my funny baseball card collection blog above and had such a great time reading though all the comments for new addition suggestions that I immediately went back to the eBay negotiation table with sellers to try to get 50 percent off some $2 priced cards with funny names. It was a success as most of the negotiation tactics from the seller's end included accepting the offer before I had time to close my eBay app or play hardball in the negotiation message board with something to the effect of: "Wait - did you really mean to make an offer for this card?". 

This blog goes out to all of you for the great suggestions. Feel free to send more my way. My next project will be the NFL version as I expand my growing museum of funny sports cards. I'm confident that upcoming blog will leave you a Happy Feller. 

You're going to notice a particular theme for this edition of the collection. Lot's names sounding like body parts and things that leave body parts. This is going to get Stanky so we may as well start off with a couple more Ed Stanky's I picked up to add to my Stanky shelf.

The face above says it all. Known as "The Brat", you can just tell Ed Stanky is the guy that child locks the windows on a trip with his boys right before letting one rip. 

Biggest miss from the first blog. I was so busy bragging about my Dick Pole I didn't even think about getting a Dick Such. Rookie move. I love that his signature is Richard but Topps wasn't going to give him that courtesy on the name printed. What is it with pitcher's and names you'd only otherwise ever find in an Austin Powers movie? Imagine if Such played to his name and tried catcher instead? He could have lasted long enough to catch for Dick Pole. Imagine the broadcast joke possibilities. 

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While anyone can grab their Pole or get a Such, it's always nice to find the 1/1 misprints that turn out working in tandem. Had this Wade Boggs been cut correctly, you'd never know he was actually checking out Carolos Quintana's backside physique. 

I even got a DM of someone with this absolute gem. Not a lot of people remember Cal Ripken was Latino. 

Speaking of looking at some ass, this Ray Sadecki came highly recommended. Tip of the cap to the camera guy on this one. He knew what he was doing. 

Everyone knows the song "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and toes", but I will not be playing this alternative version for any kids of mine.

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Another big suggestion was this ball buster.

I actually already had this Comstock but just forgot to include it in the first blog. Not sure what kind of pitch you guys think he took here but looks like either a two-bean splitter or four-bean changeup. 

Enough below the belt talk. The tour makes it's way to the face hallway of this exhibit. 

There's no excuse for the New York Yankees not figuring out a way to get this guy. Razor Shines is the perfect Yankee culture name. 

Speaking of facial hygiene, I found this nugget on my own and is one of my personal favorites. 

Who knew John Madden dropped some lbs. to play baseball in the summer under an obviously made up name? This makes two "Boogs" in sports that I know of. I think we need more. 

We end this tour with this final piece in the facial collection. The Fred McGriff #SpitGate.

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If we really stop and think about it - the fact that more baseball cards don't include a player spitting or grabbing their crotch is pretty remarkable. You can't go two seconds of a bench view on a broadcast without seeing loogies launch onto the field. I'm sure card companies have to ditch a ton of cards with stuff like this after quality control review. Let's all be glad Creed Branton was on shift for this Fred McGriff. But if you happen to work for one of these companies and have some black market unreleased gems - I'm here ready to negotiate you down from $2.

Back to curate the football collection for the fall. Until then, enjoy these other solid pieces people have tipped me on as I look to one day curate into my museum.

an absolute must for the face hallway:

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- Jeffro