I'm sure I missed more cards, but have dug back through my old boxes just looking to see what I may have missed since the last time. I have 3 stacks of cards that I may do a video on about what can be lost in the boxes when one doesn't keep up with the hobby. I decided to pull together all the duplicates of throwbacks I have so have been pulling those out of the old boxes I had. I was going through 2011 Topps, hoping maybe I missed a Trout, when I came upon this duplicate of Trevor Cahill in the throwback Oakland A's jersey. I was also checking back through all the teeny-tiny codes on the back when I noticed the Cahill was different. I flipped it over, looked it over and noticed the sparkle that I missed at least twice after going through these cards. I also found a Gold to go with it. So I have the base, sparkle and gold versions now.
I was looking at the throwback games from 1992 and trying to see if there were cards for all of them. I am noodling over a video about Throwback games, and would start with maybe 90-95, or maybe only the first 2-3 years. I didn't have anything on my sheet for the Cubs game in 1992 against the Phillies. The Phillies however have a few cards from that game. I got on comc.com and started going through every 1993 Cubs card listed. I finally found one single card. A Rey Sanchez from the 1993 Stadium Club Teams Sets. I knew my mother had gotten a bunch of different sets for Christmas, and thought for sure there had to be a Cubs team set in there. I found one box, nothing. Finally happened to run across one box on the bottom of multiple others, filled with different team sets. Thankfully there were a few Cubs Teams Sets in there, so I didn't have to resort to eBay/comc.com to get it. My final card showed up today via eBay. I am not a fan of the non-licensed stuff, so I normally don't pick them up. The one exception I have is when they included game-used Throwback jerseys. I think I was just doing a random scrolling through of "auto" search on eBay and ran across the Austin Jackson card. It instantly stuck out to me with the patch being single colored. Amazingly this 2016 National Treasures set had card with the actual game date listed on the card. I looked it up, and sure enough this was from a Throwback game between the Tigers and the Rays. Best I can tell this is part of the "C" and the "K" from the name on back (the swatch is flipped upside down). The other card stuck out to me as it was a grey jersey with pinstripe of Yelich. Brewers do not have a pinstriped grey jersey, unless you scroll through uniform-lineup.com Brewers page and see they wore the Negro League throwbacks in 2018. It was a road game at Pittsburgh. I am 99% sure this is a jersey swatch from that game.
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2020 Topps cards have hit the shelves, and the plethora of Reds throwback jerseys from last year are well represented. Other throwbacks were this 1969 Cubs Walk-off Team card, Phillies all blue alternates as well as their Cream colored alternates, Brewers alternates, White Sox alternates, and an Astros 1989-93 Rainbow sleeve. It is getting to the point I may rethink counting these alternates in my database and card collection. Way too many teams seem to have an alternate throwback in their uni rotation now.
Chicago Cubs are at the Chicago White Sox today playing in 1959 Throwback jerseys. The game is to honor the passing of two Chicago baseball legends from earlier in 2015. Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub, passed away on January 23rd and Minnie Minoso on March 1st. This is a "companion" game to the July 12th game at Wrigley Field in which 1958 Home/Away uniforms were worn by the corresponding teams.
One of the best Sox uniforms from the past and certainly a better road jersey for the Cubs than their current options. Have to give a completely biased "Go Cubs!"
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