Monday, July 13, 2009

Mystery of the Mets Heritage cards SOLVED.

Due to an insidious case of summer amnesia, we forgot about
participating in one of Mighty I Am Joe Collector's box breaks.
We said "Mets" and these are the results.

We didn't realize that three of the players posed with exactly
the same expressions for this set:


Neat trick. Our boy John Maine didn't go along with the plan:

No wonder Johan is smiling; he's shiny and he hadn't experienced
this season yet. We love the 1960-floaty-heads design for the
coaches card:


This was included too:

A black "authentic game-worn jersey" bit and a very nice card.

There are no promises made on the back about what is meant by
authentic; just a cartoon, some text about Mr. Wright, and a
fellow saying "Relics, I love these threads," making a fey gesture,
staring admiringly at a jersey with a W on it. In the lore of
baseball card backs, which requires that the cartoon figure
bears no resemblance in facial feature, skin color, or body type
to the player on the card front, that is probably supposed to be
David Wright himself. But the visual would be more compelling if
it was meant to be a guy in his undershirt, say maybe a blogger,
in the clubhouse admiring the jersey before it is sliced into bits
for a card.


This is lovely:

So, thank you, Mystery Person, and please identify yourself.