Name a random Brewer

Sixto Lezcano

We used to giggle as kids:

Jeffrey Leonard

Fitzu Hiakawa or better known as Len Sakata.

Boomer Scott

Pedro Garcia

Mark Brouhard

Rob Deer

Mrs. Kiel worked at the PGA Tour with his son and I gave him a couple of his Dad’s cards.

Wayne Comer

Tom Candiotti

Wei-Chung Wang.  Who can forget Wei-Chung Wang Wednesdays with the bullpen??

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Tommy Harper.

Danny Walton…

We’d  sit in the outfield bleachers singing  “Dan-Nee Walton…Tom-E Harper.”
Good times.

Pops was a Milwaukee cop…I literally have 50 Bob McClure cards if anyone is interested.

One time we were heckling Davey May so bad in RF he came over and started arguing with us before the first pitch of an inning was thrown. Before that I never thought those guys even listened to the fans.

I have a complete set of those '82 cards

I wasn't into baseball cards as a kid, but I did manage to get a set of the police cards

There's no telling how many great baseball card collections were thrown away by mothers when the attic was cleaned out.

Marshall Edwards

Kevin Seitzer

@Pikes Peak posted:

Boomer Scott

The Brewers were definitely trade partners with the Red Sox. Traded Marty Pattin to get the Boomer, traded Boomer back and got Cooper. He was their first star player. HRs = taters.

And his necklace was made from 2nd baseman's teeth. 

Glenn Braggs

@ammo posted:

And his necklace was made from 2nd baseman's teeth. 

In 7th grade, the Journal ran a picture of George and his necklace and I remember trying to draw it.

@tsr86free posted:

Glenn Braggs

The Manster. He looked the part but what a disappointment he was.

Looked like Tarzan….

I saw Hammer'n Hanks career salaries and was blown away. It's not that he only made $2 mil in his career, but the most the Braves ever paid him was $125K per season. When he came back to Milwaukee for the final 2 years he was paid $240K for each season.

I can’t imagine what Hank and his cohorts (Mays/Mantle/Gibson/McCovey/Clemente/Koufax to name a few) would get today.

When the Brewers signed Larry Hisle to a contract averaging $600K a season everybody was blown away by those numbers. Now a 37 year old journeyman, Matt Carpenter, gets $12 mill for 2 years. Lombardi traded Jim Taylor because he was making $15K and asked for a $500 a year increase.

Jim Taylor was never traded. He played out his option by not signing a new contract. And I'm sure he was making more than $15,000. Jerry Kramer signed a $32,000 contract  in 1967 and you know Taylor was making more than an OL.   He wanted to be in his home town area, New Orleans.   It was the Saints first year and they wanted a home town hero to sell tickets.  He barely played and retired after his 1st season.  He had signed four 1 year contracts with the Saints for $68,000.

Carlos Lee

Prince Fielder

CC Sabathia

Joey Meyers

Players that truly embodied Milwaukee

@ammo posted:

Jim Taylor was never traded. He played out his option by not signing a new contract. And I'm sure he was making more than $15,000. Jerry Kramer signed a $32,000 contract  in 1967 and you know Taylor was making more than an OL.   He wanted to be in his home town area, New Orleans.   It was the Saints first year and they wanted a home town hero to sell tickets.  He barely played and retired after his 1st season.  He had signed four 1 year contracts with the Saints for $68,000.

In 1967, in fact, Taylor played out his option. Lombardi, considering him disloyal, did not refer to him by name once that whole year. Taylor was near the end of his career and was signed as a free agent by the New Orleans Saints, the new expansion team. Taylor, a local hero, had been a star at Louisiana State University. He'd be good box office. Lombardi drove a stiff bargain, and let Taylor go for a first-round draft choice and an unnamed player.

@PackerRick posted:

There's no telling how many great baseball card collections were thrown away by mothers when the attic was cleaned out.

Have mentioned before. Born 1960. Me and my 2 brothers had a 50 gallon drum full of 60’s baseball and football cards that somehow we lost track of (Mom?) as we aged out of the house. To make up for it ala Rosebud in Citizen Kane, starting in the early 2000’s I endeavored (mostly via Ebay) to collect every Packer card issued between 1948 (Leaf was the first National set of football cards) and around 1974.

I also attempted to collect every Milwaukee Brave card issued from 1953-1965 and every Brewer card from the 70’s. Aside from your regular Topps and Bowman cards, there were literally dozens of regional sets from cereal companies, cookie companies and tea companies among others.

I’d say I’ve accomplished 98% of my goal, the biggest hole being not owning Aaron’s rookie. A cheap one in shitty condition these days goes for hundreds. I did have the good fortune to have bought Starr and Hornung rookie cards for around $125 each and they’ve tripled at least in value.

Naturally, I also had to collect a lot of pins, certificates and other related memorabilia. Since this is a Brewers thread, if you guys are at all interested, I’ll post an interesting (to me) card of the day .

For starters, here’s an 8” x10” set of portraits I bought that I don’t even know who issued it:

No Steve Hovely?  Sounds like a great collection. How man thousands of dollars of baseball cards do you thing ended up in the spokes of a bicycle?

As you wish! We were too poor to own bikes. 😀

I even bought some personalized cards:

@Blair Kiel posted:

As you wish! We were too poor to own bikes. 😀

No wonder you have a card collection. Nobody had both a bike and a card collection.