Happy Father's Day

There's been many Father's Day themed cards produced over the years.  Topps has had a blue parallel in their set commemorating Father's Day for over a half decade now.  Panini has had exclusive hobby shop packs since 2013 for Father's Day.  

Today I am going to look at my favorite image used on one of those Father's Day Panini Packs.

This is the cracked ice (atomic) parallel /25.

The back of the card references Marvel Comics Spider-Man.  I'm surprised Panini was allowed to do that since the Marvel license for trading cards is at Upper Deck.

This Day in Cutchstory: Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there reading this!!!

Today's card is the 2011 Bowman Chrome blue parallel.

I chose this card because it features an image of Cutch wearing the blue wristbands from a Father's Day game played in 2010 against the Cleveland Indians.  

Coincidently Father's Day in 2010 was also on June 20th.  

The Pirates defeated the Cleveland Indians 5-3 at PNC Park.  Cutch scored the go ahead run in the 8th inning when he walked to lead off the inning and came around to score on a Pedro Alvarez sacrifice fly.  

At the plate, Cutch went 0 for 3 with a walk, run scored, and RBI.  

He finished the day with his triple slash line being .315/.392/.479.  It's a shame that Evan Meek was the Pirates lone representative at the 2010 All Star Game and that Cutch was snubbed from the game.