Showing posts with label pirates. Show all posts
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Friday, March 13, 2009

#110T Orestes Destrade



We complete this set not with a bang, but with a whimper. Destrade was a well-regarded rookie at this time but disappeared from the big leagues after 1988. Disappeared until 1993, that is, when he got a shot with the first-year Marlins and posted a 20-HR season. He fell off considerably in 1994 and that was truly it for him. Destrade had spent 3 of those intervening years (1990-1992) in Japan, where he hit 42, 39, and 41 HR while playing 130 or fewer games each year (the season in Japan is shorter than in MLB.)

I don't see any particularly interesting words on the back, so here are some anagrams for Orestes Destrade:

Retreaded tosses
Dread sore testes
Rotted deer asses

Thursday, February 26, 2009

#69T Tommy Gregg



Again it's kind of weird how the copy on the back of the card talks about him homering in the big leagues in 1988 and yet there are no 1988 stats on the card. I guess they started working on these cards before the season was over and couldn't include 1988 performance.

Most unusual word on the back? I'm going with "punt."