Diamond Kings and More from The Diamond King

I recently won one of seven prize packages from Kevin, The Diamond King.  The rules stated that you could only enter to win three of them.  As luck would have it not only did I win but I won the package I most wanted.  Kevin labelled them, "modern retired players", which sounds a lot less exciting than the cards themselves.  I picked my favorite 13 cards to show here which is only 10% of the total.  Thanks Kevin!

Not a bad baker's dozen, eh!

Blow Out the Candles May 12

There's only one Yogi Berra and  he's celebrating his 87th birthday today

 Hall of Fame left winger Johnny Bucyk is celebrating his 77th birthday today.

Musician Burt Bacharach is celebrating his 84th birthday today

Burt with lyricist Hal David

Comedian George Carlin was born in New York City, New York on this date in 1937.

I still have my LP copies of Class Clown and Occupation Foole from the 1970's.

Some of these may be offensive to some people:

2001 Sunoco Dream Team

I picked up this oddball set on Ebay for 25 cents plus shipping.  According to "The Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards" these cards were sold in three-card packs for 49 cents with a gasoline or Coke purchase.  Other than being on thin card stock they're pretty nice.  I love the titles on the back.  They remind me of the 1960's combo cards.