#108T Melido Perez

This is a great action shot of Perez, but what exactly is sitting in the stands on the right? It looks like a huge cartoon giraffe.

There are a few choice words on the back including "supple," "ironies," and "charming."


The

#89T Dave Gallagher

Gallagher's bat looks about 4 feet long! It also looks like there might be a bit of a puff of dirt to the left, so maybe he just hit a grounder.

Who's in the background? If that's a White Sox player wearing a warmup jersey, then it's Greg Walker.

Weirdest word on the back is probably "gloveman."

#85T Jack McDowell

Flying gold chain on the front, squinty eyes on the back!

The word "equalled" is on the back, again an acceptable but rare variant of the word "equaled."

Sad to see the mention of the late Don Drysdale on the back. For perspective on how old these cards are, he's be gone for more than 15 years already and yet was quoted on this card.

#66T Jeff Bittiger

Oh man, I hope that's not his orgasm face.

The back of the card talks all about his minor league performance, but they failed to mention how he had more walks than strikeouts on 1983. Wow.

#61T Jerry Reuss

I just thought I'd point out some anagrams using text from the back of the card.

"heady veteran" = "averted hyena"

"pitches with finesse" = "step in whitish feces"

"won eighteen games" = "eminent sewage hog"

#56T Dan Pasqua

Here is yet another guy with a mismatched uniform number between what our eyes tell us and what the back of the card wants us to believe. Oops.

I'm also surprised to see the word "delightful" on the back of any baseball card.

#52T Mark Salas

This is a nice photo of a traditional way of wearing the uniform, with nice coloring stirrup socks and all. It's also another example of a good use of two photos, with Salas' face being almost completely obscured on the front, but nice and visible on the back.

#24T Rick Horton

CARD

I just love photos that capture the baseball coming right at you.

I note, too, that Score went for "Rick" here instead of "Ricky", as Topps did here and here in 1988.

STAT

Horton walked Keith Hernandez more than anybody else (and walked a lot of Mets in general.) He struck out Darryl Strawberry more than anybody else (and struck out a lot of Mets in general.) I'm sure that has to do with the fact that he pitched 103 innings against the Mets and 560 innings against 24 other teams, an average of 23.1 per team.

CAREER

I guess the most interesting thing I can find about Horton's career are the players he was traded with or for. He was in a trade with Lance Johnson and Jose DeLeon, two guys who had much better careers than Horton did. And Horton was the guy the Dodgers traded for when they gave up on super-prospect Shawn Hillegas.