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I've been looking for these cards forever. My oldest brother got them at a game sometime between 1969 and 1971. They are 4"x8" and I think there a couple missing.













I was moving my old desk and found them when I removed one of the drawers (they were under the drawer).

Was there neck hair growing out of Torre's card?

Seriously. Those are awesome. Holy crap.

Maclowery wrote:Was there neck hair growing out of Torre's card?

Seriously. Those are awesome. Holy crap.

Hahaha, I can see Torre sporting the full man sweater as a 9 year old.

Seeing those old pics of Torre always makes me think of the line in Jim Bouton's Ball Four:

Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It’s hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with t*ts.”

Jackpot! Awesome.

Joe is a hairy guy. If he let his beard grow, it would quickly rival Brian Wilson's. Except he wouldn't need black shoe polish.

JL21 wrote:Seeing those old pics of Torre always makes me think of the line in Jim Bouton's Ball Four:

Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It’s hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with t*ts.”

How great is that book?

Spider John wrote:

JL21 wrote:Seeing those old pics of Torre always makes me think of the line in Jim Bouton's Ball Four:

Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It’s hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with t*ts.”

How great is that book?

Pretty great. I've read it three times in my life. The book lead me to alcohol - I was 15 and read it and figured that's what ballplayers did.

Ted Simmons used to always have these weird punk-like expressions on his face when he got his picture taken. I used to love that.

That's the era when I began to follow the Cardinals in earnest. I learned to calculate batting averages because of Torre's remarkable year in 1971. Simmons and Gibson were two of my early Cardinal favorites, and one of the first bats I ever received from a trip to the ballpark was a Joe Hague bat. So those are great memories.

Sadly, we saw the effects of trading off Reuss and Carlton for too many years than I care to remember.

sighyoung wrote:That's the era when I began to follow the Cardinals in earnest. I learned to calculate batting averages because of Torre's remarkable year in 1971. Simmons and Gibson were two of my early Cardinal favorites, and one of the first bats I ever received from a trip to the ballpark was a Joe Hague bat. So those are great memories.

Sadly, we saw the effects of trading off Reuss and Carlton for too many years than I care to remember.

Just killed them for most of the 70s.