vintage week... Day 4. Papa Roach

moving right along, here is the card I had planned to show yesterday.

 

a 1961 Topps Mel Roach

 

and before you go running to baseball-reference.com, Mel was born in 1933. So he's 27 in this pic.

Really.

No kidding.

That is IF Topps used a current photo of him. And we know how Topps LOVES to use old photos.

So he may be even younger.

Hmmm.

1961 is one of my least favourite sets of the vintage era. I think it and the 1966 set are by far the worst.
I still love them.
But they u-g-l-y.

What's your ugly set?

it's vintage week... Day 2

day 2 of vintage week brings us yet another 1959 Topps. Only this one be green.

 

I have 26 different '59 Topps Braves, and this is only my third green one. I have fifteen yellow, one pink (shown yesterday), three light blue, two dark blue, and two All Star cards.

 

Mel here set me back $0.96

 

According to the cartoon on the back, Mel attends the University of Virginia in the offseason.

I wonder why Mel looks so wistful in the pic? What is he thinking?

Regardless, it's a lot better looking card than tomorrow's.....


still needed for 1959 Topps,
#'s 40, 212, 380, 450, 467, 551, 561, 565, 567, 571