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Old 04-21-2024, 10:10 PM
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A few favorites of mine… Paul Pierce furious with making it to the NBA, Dirk introduced to American fans as a zombie, and Mariano looking more like some teenage pipsqueak taking a break from busing tables at a tacky seafood restaurant for a quick snapshot than the future greatest closer of all time… 92 Bowman is IMO one of the worst sets ever made but sadly it’s slowly becoming iconic in large part due to this card.

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Old 04-24-2024, 07:08 PM
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This one always struck me as a pretty bad one.
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Old 04-27-2024, 09:12 PM
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Dude has no mouth or nose.
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Leon - there’s probably a perfect image of Frank Chance under that button! Looks like a pre-cursor to the 1916-20 “Big Heads”.
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I was just sorting my 1975 Topps cards and came across Len Randle and I immediately thought of this thread.

Sure, he wasn't a household name, but this is the BEST Topps could do for poor Len?

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I always despised this strip set & the Cobb especially. Reminded me of the joker or Mr burns from the Simpson’s. Complete Yuck..
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I always despised this strip set & the Cobb especially. Reminded me of the joker or Mr burns from the Simpson’s. Complete Yuck..
Cobb's pose is sliced off a cameo with Commissioner Landis. The only thing worse than the Landis serious face is the Landis smiling face!
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I was just sorting my 1975 Topps cards and came across Len Randle and I immediately thought of this thread.

Sure, he wasn't a household name, but this is the BEST Topps could do for poor Len?

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If you find any stories about Randle, you might have a change of perspective and consider it an awesomely fitting photo! Randle is assuredly one of baseball's eccentrics. 2 a.m. phone calls to fans and collectors are not out of the question. The last update was that he's currently hospitalized. Hope he's faring better.
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This Tarzan Bread card of Munns, I used to own, looks like he might be a bit constipated.
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I was just sorting my 1975 Topps cards and came across Len Randle and I immediately thought of this thread.

Sure, he wasn't a household name, but this is the BEST Topps could do for poor Len?

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Len Randle makes me automatically think of this awesomeness:

https://youtu.be/AJPpTXzPxFs?si=i5Skt8aCXs-8K2rC
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If we're talking about hockey, then I think it's time to quote a little Rush to describe Topps' WTF efforts with Keith Magnuson:

"Living in a fisheye lens
Caught in the camera eye"


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Len Randle makes me automatically think of this awesomeness:

https://youtu.be/AJPpTXzPxFs?si=i5Skt8aCXs-8K2rC
I've seen that clip a hundred times but didn't put it together that was the same guy on my 1975 Topps card.

Thanks to your post (and the post from BillyCox up above) I spent some time Googling Len Randle. Quite a character.

Here's another Len Randle highlight (blowing a ball foul) that I've seen a million times that I didn't associate with that Topps card until now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLroDoPFdWY
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Old 04-30-2024, 01:58 PM
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I was just sorting my 1975 Topps cards and came across Len Randle and I immediately thought of this thread.

Sure, he wasn't a household name, but this is the BEST Topps could do for poor Len?

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Len looks like he just took a pitched ball in the nuts.
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I couldnt disagree more on the 73 Clemente. I think it's an awesome image, especially considering it's his last card and he's in shadow like that. It's almost.. poignant.

The 1958 Brooks Robinson was the fiorst card that came to mind. haha. I mean cmon, seriously Topps??
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These give me nightmares!
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