Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Tebow Time, Bubble Gum, and a Sucker: My Favorite Frankenset Card by Page; Page 9 (Cards 91-99)

It's time for another installment of my favorite Frankenset card (by page), where I show off my Frankenset by giving you my top three favorite cards from each page of the set. Let's jump right in.

3) 2019 Bowman Draft #92, Tim Tebow



I think 2020 would have been Tebow's last best shot at taking a few at-bats late in the season at the major league level, but the minor league season was canceled. Not sure he had much of a chance to begin with, but it's probably not going to happen now. Still, what he has done at the minor league level is really impressive after not playing since high school. 


2) 2016 Stadium Club #96, Adam Eaton



Not quite a Bevacqua-level bubble, but quite impressive for an in-action photo. 


1) 1993 Upper Deck #99, Mark Portugal



This is the quintessential Frankenset card. Signing autos. The glasses. The STRAP on the glasses! The sucker in the mouth. Golden.

With page nine now in the books, here are the Frankenset standings. For this post, we have an "Wrong Sport" with the Tebow, a "Gum" card with the Eaton, and a combination "Glasses" and "Signing Autos" card with the Portugal. The Portugal fits into more than one category, so it will be split into half points. After nine pages, here's what we've seen:

Category  
Lesser Known: 4.5
Odd Team: 4
Glasses: 4
Mustache: 3
Pitcher Hitting: 3
Field Action - Awkward: 2
Equipment Oddity: 1
Facial Expression - In Action: 1
Field Action Fail: 1
Pitcher Running Bases: 1
Position Player Pitching: 1
Gum: 1
Wrong Sport: 1
Why is he bunting?: 0.5
Chew: 0.5
Funny Name/Nickname: 0.5
Hair: 0.5
Signing Autographs: 0.5

What is your favorite card from page nine?

Thanks for reading!

5 comments:

  1. I'm going to vote for Portugal - so many awesome little elements!

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  2. I like the gum-blowing Adam Eaton. It's a shame his career never intersected with the pitcher Adam Eaton. Have two players with the same name ever been pitcher and batter?

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  3. I really would've liked to see Tim in the bigs, heck, that might've been the only thing that could've ever got me to watch a current game.

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