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It's been about two weeks since I last visited my binder of 2014 Topps Stadium Club cards. The goal of this little project is to determine the best card in the 2014 base set - beginning with the best card on each of the pages of my binder and then working our way up to the best of the best from there.
Let's look at our next four pages!
Page 17 - Cards 145 - 153:
This page is chock full of blue...four (!?) Dodgers and a pair of Royals with the only non-Blue teams being Harper's Nationals and Bruce's Reds. For as much as I love those powder blues that Bo Jackson is rocking, I have to give "best photo" on this particular page to Salvador Perez.
It's a celebration shot where you actually can tell who the main subject of is, no small feat in images like that!
Page 18 - Cards 154 - 162:
Yet another Dodger on this page but to me the only three possibilities for "best card" on this page go to Rivera, Mauer, or Sale.
Nothing particularly spectacular about any of the nine cards on the page so I went with the most interesting out of a bunch of fairly blase cards, Mariano Rivera.
Page 19 - Cards 163 - 171:
This is one of the easiest pages yet - only the Dominic Brown is worthy of moving on...and that card has a very real chance of making it quite far in the competition! I love cards showing technology...they age so very, very poorly typically but they also serve as a wonderful time capsule of sorts (see almost any technology shown in 90s cards for proof of what I'm talking about).
Love, love, love this one.
Page 20: Cards 172 - 180:
For our final page of this post, we have a nice assortment of current (at the time) players coupled with a couple of legends and a rookie. My eye was drawn to the two batting cages shots (which just so happened to be the two legends on the page) as well as the sliding Molina card.
In the end, I had to give the nod to Eddie Murray but I can understand why others might disagree with me!
Speaking of disagreeing, I'd love to hear which cards you think are the best on each page this time around. Do you agree with my choices? Let me know in the comments - after all, this is just for fun!
Page 17: Bo
ReplyDeletePage 18: Sale
Page 19: Brown
Page 20: Murray
My choices would be Koufax (love the 4 baseballs in his hands), Sale (throwback uni), Brown, and Molina (although you can never go wrong with Steady Eddie!)
ReplyDelete- Page 17: Bo Jackson, Salvador Perez, & Sandy Koufax. Koufax wins with ease.
ReplyDelete- Page 18: Chris Sale, Jurickson Profar, & Jose Canseco. Canseco takes it, I guess, although this is a rather blah page.
- Page 19: Masahiro Tanaka, (all-star) Domonic Brown, & Robin Yount. Brown also with a win on a meh page.
- Page 20: Mike Schmidt, Eddie Murray, & Ian Desmond. Desmond by a hair in a tight race.
Page 17: Koufax. Tough call for a Dodger fan, have always loved that Kemp. Also Bo Jackson never makes a bad baseball card.
ReplyDeletePage 18: Chris Sale. Dullish page.
Page 19: Domonic Brown. This page really shows the difference between Stadium Club then and now. The Wainwright and Shelby Miller cards are practically the same photo.
Page 20: Eddie Murray. Look at those sideburns, how can you not pick that.
Koufax, Canseco, Latos, and Murray.
ReplyDeleteBo Jackson (although I'm tempted to follow my bias and say Piazza), Chris Sale (seeing him in a throwback jersey is always kind of funny), Miller, Murray (Milhouse would love those sideburns!)
ReplyDeleteVery weird to have three Dodgers in a row. Topps usually doesn't do that. Good point on how that Pérez card that it's really nice to have a celebration card where it's clear which player the card is for.
Kofax
ReplyDeleteGwynn - love the uniform
Yount
Murray - though Schmidt in the warm up jacket is pretty sweet
It's like you're in my mind!
ReplyDeleteLol. I just posted about this set as well. What a coincidence. I don't disagree with your selections here ALTHOUGH, I had a real hard time picking between the Rivera and the Gwynn.
ReplyDeleteSo many compelling images in this set. The Murray is possibly one of my favorite cards in the whole set. I'd say top 10 for sure. I love the texture given by the cage net in the background.