Pack Break 2013 Bowman

I bought one pack of Bowman just for fun.  

The first three base cards feature solid players who all wear red.  The design of the cards is also solid.

There were two rookies:

Great name:  Jurickson Barthelomeus Profar.  Jurickson is currently at AAA Round Rock batting .250.

Kelly underwent season ending Tommy John surgery in April.

This is probably the best card in the pack.  Starling is off to a great start, hitting .313.

There were two "Prospects" cards:

Shane is at Asheville in A-ball putting up not very good numbers.

Jamie's only 18.  I couldn't find anything current on him.

I think each pack has two chromes.

Cory has 25 RBI in 28 games this season at AA Binghamton.  As his card says he's the son of 4-time All-Star Greg Vaughn.

Brett's posting some good numbers at Charleston in A-ball.  He's 4-2 and has 29 strikeouts in just 24.2 innings pitched against 7 walks.

Not too exciting a pack but not bad.

Bloiw Out the Candles May 10

Original Met and '69 Cub Jim Hickman is celebrating his 76th birthday today.

 1971 Topps #175

 Step right up and greet the Mets --- in their underwear.  Perhaps drunk.  Jim has a boo boo on his knee.

Entertainer Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska on this date in 1899.

 Fred with his partner and sister Adele

The great team of Fred and Ginger (Rogers).

Scottish Musician Donovan is celebrating his 67th bithday today.

 Dylan and Donovan

Some weird guys and Donovan

2013 Triple Play from My Wife's Collection

What's more fun than seeing your wife enjoying opening a pack of cards?  Last year I was very much on the fence about the merits of Panini's first offering of the inexpensive, kid friendly Triple Play set.  I thought it was  pretty boring.  My wife, on the other hand, really liked it.  So last week I picked up a value pack at Target of 2013.  Again my wife enjoyed opening the pack.  To my suprise I found more to like about this year's cards.  My guess is that the artwork leans more to charicature this time and I find that more interesting.  I found a full half the pack blogworthy.