No mail today, but I do have another card that's been sitting on my desk which arrived over the past weekend.
I don't really remember Andre Dawson swatting 49 homers and winning the NL MVP for the last place Cubs in 1987. I was only nine years old at the time and professional baseball was still a foreign concept to me.
Two years later I was memorizing the backs of baseball cards and following The Boys of Zimmer as close as I possibly could, as the Cubs were on their way to winning the NL East. What a fun summer that was!
For the record, I think these movie poster cards from Topps, found in Archives, are a pretty creative idea. Good on Topps.
Don Zimmer seemed to be the glue that kept my favorite childhood team together. I'm not sure if he's my favorite manager of all-time, because maybe that's Joe Maddon's spot, but it's difficult to best memories from one's youth.
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Do you have a favorite manager?
My favorite Cubs GM is Leo Durocher, but that probably says more about my age than anything else.
ReplyDeleteLove the movie posters. I really wish there was one per team. My first year as a fan featured Roger Craig as the manager and Zim as the 3rd base coach and that was just a really fun pair to have as the voice of the team.
ReplyDeleteTerry Francona. He brought two titles to Boston, and a Hall of Famer in my book.
ReplyDeleteCool card - hadn't seen these before.
ReplyDeleteI second Matt's vote for Francona. And I like the movie poster concept on a card. I'm puzzled as to why the text only refers to each player by their nickname - and makes no mention of Don Zimmer at all.
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