My Favorite Frankenset Card by Page; Page 3 (Cards 19-27)

Page 3 of the Frankenset has some solid cards. It can't quite measure up to page one or page two, but it does feature two baserunners you wouldn't expect to be pictured chugging around the bases on a baseball card.

Here are those entries:

1995 Pinnacle #22, Bob Hamelin

6'0", 230 lb. Bob Hamelin flying out the batter's box so fast his helmet falls off. Shocking fact: Hamelin stole four bases in 1994. FOUR! He swiped 11 in his six seasons in MLB.


Our second unlikely baserunner:

1996 SP #23, Tom Glavine

Stolen base fact (unlike the case of Hamelin, not found on the back of the card): Tom Glavine stole one base. In 22 seasons. Glavine had 1645 plate appearances in his career, whereas Hamelin had 1508.

So Bob Hamelin was clearly the better base stealer. (The preceding sentence was just typed for the first time in Western Civilization's known literature.)

Odd choices by Pinnacle and Upper Deck, for sure. But this week's winner is the beneficiary of an even odder choice decision by the makers of the 1990 Classic baseball series.

1990 Classic Yellow #T25, Jeff Treadway

Did you catch it? Odd, isn't it? Besides "why in the world would you choose this photo?," the other main thought I had was wondering what happened here. The only thing I can see causing this scenario is Treadway fouling the ball off. One of those barely got a piece of it spinning foul balls. For a guy who hit .277 in 134 games the previous season, you think Classic could have done better. Or maybe they were being sneakily intentional, because this card in my opinion, is a true "classic."