Make like a tree and get out of here

I have been watching some of my favorite movies and TV shows now that I am home more.

Back to the Future is one of my favorite movies.

It took old Biff a long time to realize the saying was "Make like a tree...and leave"

This then got me thinking about the old Leaf cards from 1990 and how I wish I didn't invest into them so much as they are practically worthless now.

This 1990 Leaf Barry Bonds has an interesting fact on the back.

Barry Bonds was only the second Pirate to post 20/20 seasons.

There are a few active Pirates players that could potentially be 20/20 guys with Kevin Newman being the most obvious choice.

The most recent 20/20 guys are no longer on the Pirates thanks to trades that shipped them off to NL West teams in 2018 (McCutchen to Giants) and 2020 (Marte to Diamondbacks).

With news that NECA toys is producing a line of figures for the 35th Anniversary of the film and (wait for it....)

A LINE OF TOYS FOR THE ANIMATED SERIES THAT LASTED 26 EPISODES

I am going to show off 26 of my McCutchen cards with Starling Marte.

2014 Gypsy Queen Dual Button

2015 Museum High Number

2013 Museum

2016 Museum

2017

2016 Museum

 2015 Triple Threads

 2015 Triple Threads

2014 Panini Classics Triple Jersey

2017 Stadium Club Photo Variant featuring Cutch and Polanco celebrating after a win.

2016 Heritage Box Loader

2016 Heritage

 2014 Museum

 2015 Museum

 2013 Museum

2015 Topps Heritage

Here is the card with in person autographs inserted into a 2018 Archives Top Loader.


And here are some base cards of Starling Marte that mention Andrew McCutchen on the back (cardboard cameos)

2020 Topps Series 1

2013 Topps Series 1

2017 Topps Chrome

Meaningful Material

About a month ago I showed off a Majestic Patch from Topps Museum Meaningful Material Prime Patches.  You can revisit the post here.

The /50, /35, and /10 patches all have the same look to them.  Gold and copper look identical for foil outlines.

Rizzo Remembers

Anthony Rizzo is an absolute class act.

He has won the Roberto Clemente award for his role in the community.

Last year around this time, Parkland High School had a tragic incident where 17 people were murdered by gunfire in a school shooting.

A year ago to this day, Anthony Rizzo made an appearance for the vigil the community had.  Details can be found here.

I have shown all but one of my Anthony Rizzo cards on this blog before.

Here is a card I got last summer that I never got around to showing off.  It's too big for my scanner bed to pick up the entire card.

It goes nicely with the other quad booklet I have featuring Rizzo, Arenado, Cutch, and Stanton.  The patch version is numbered to 5 where as the jumbo jersey is numbered to 15.

To see my other Rizzo cards click here.

Giancarlo can't be stopped

Is it possible to see Giancarlo Stanton homer in every game going forward?  It seems that way!!!

Fortunately for my fantasy baseball team, Giancarlo is playing out of his mind.  He has set a Marlins single season home run record, homered in 5 straight games, and has 251 career home runs in his age 27 season.  Only 12 players in MLB history have accomplished that.  Eight are in the Hall of Fame.  The four that aren't are Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Juan Gonzalez, and Andruw Jones.  

I have shown off all these cards before when the World Baseball Classic was going on, but with the way Stanton has been playing of late, I thought I could show them all off again.

I have seen a dual patch of the below card instead of dual bat, but am content just having the Stanton bat (for now)

One of the coolest booklets I own is this quad jumbo jersey booklet.  Not only does it feature my 4 favorite NL players, it also has 3 team mates of Team USA who won the 2017 WBC.

Another really awesome card is this 9 player patch card.  This thing is massive and features incredible patches for each player.  The front features Buster Posey, Clayton Kershaw, Jose Abreau, Miguel Cabrera, and Robinson Cano.

Can't go wrong with Stanton, Cutch, Trout, and Kershaw.

Ugh...Yasiel Puig

I'm not sure if Topps just doesn't want to produce more cards of Cutch and Stanton or they don't see the pairing as being compatible on cardboard the same way Panini does.

I would love to see a decapatch card made of the 10 players who won the decisive World Baseball Classic game against Puerto Rico.  That would be awesome!!!

Anyone know any custom card makers who could make such a card?