The Best Argument Against the DH? Rod Beck At-Bat - The Frankenset Recap (Page 13: Cards 110-118)

Welcome to another installment of a series covering my completed Frankenset. I thought it would be fun to share the set page by page on this blog, and also provide some random commentary with each page. More information on the Frankenset as well as links to the pages that have been revealed can be found here.

Today we'll look at page 13 of the set, which includes cards #110 to 118.

1993 Score Select #110 - Candy Maldonado

Ironically, that's not candy in his mouth. 

1993 Upper Deck #111 - Brady Anderson

"I got it! I got it!... I don't have it."

1995 Collector's Choice SE #112 - Rod Beck

Rod Beck was a .211 career hitter (4 hits in 19 at-bats). Not bad for a lifetime reliever. 

1993 Donruss Triple Play #113 - Andre Dawson

The Hawk really got sawed off on this pitch.

2015 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects #114 - Mariano Rivera

Easy to be a lesser known when the guy most people know had 652 saves. 

1991 Upper Deck #115 - Greg Maddux

Maddux had sacrifice bunts in nearly 10% of his career plate appearances (180 out of 1,812).

1992 Megacards The Babe Ruth Collection #116

Yes, this is Babe Ruth wearing a dress. This photo was probably taken around 1897, and the practice of putting boys in dresses faded out not long after. 

Per Wikipedia: "The main reason for keeping boys in dresses was toilet training, or the lack thereof. The change was probably made once boys had reached the age when they could easily undo the rather complicated fastenings of many early modern breeches and trousers. Before roughly 1550 various styles of long robes were in any case commonly worn by adult males of various sorts, so boys wearing them could probably not be said to form a distinct phenomenon. Dresses were also easier to make with room for future growth, in an age when clothes were much more expensive than now for all classes."

1989 Star #117 - Jamie Roseboro

Jamie's father, John Roseboro, played 14 major league seasons and is perhaps best known as the guy Juan Marichal clubbed over the head with a bat during a brawl. Jamie Roseboro topped out at AAA in 1991. 

1998 Upper Deck #118 - Hideo Nomo

I included this card despite the fact that any good Hideo Nomo card should show him in his legendary windup. 

Thanks for visiting. What was your favorite card from this page? It's kind of a tough call for me, but I'd probably go with the Rod Beck. 

Griffey, Canseco, and Mariano Rivera Rookies

The title of this post is misleading. Purposely misleading. Why, you ask? It seems pretty straightforward, right? You're thinking, he's going to talk about some awesome rookie cards of three of the great players from the 90s and 00s.

Well... not exactly.

Because, you see, this post is really about a strange mini-collection. Instead of explaining the nature of that mini-collection, let me first show you the cards referenced in the title of this post.

1995 Upper Deck Minors #59, Craig Griffey

2015 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects #114, Mariano Rivera

1991 Score #346, Ozzie Canseco

I call this mini-collection the "Lesser Knowns." There are various categories of lesser knowns that I have developed within this mini-collection. The Craig Griffey, Ozzie Canseco, and Mariano Rivera cards fit into a category of lesser knowns within the same baseball family. 

The other categories:

• Lesser knowns with the same name as a considerably more famous non-baseball athlete.

1981 Topps #294, Mike Tyson

• And finally, lesser knowns with the same name as a considerably more famous non-athlete.

1987 Donruss #484, Jim Morrison

I'm sure you can think of examples of some additional players who would fit into each of the lesser known categories. Feel free to leave yours in the comments below. At some point, I might just reveal my entire list of cards in this mini-collection. There are several mixed into the Frankenset, so be on the lookout.