bust a move

not too long ago i got an email from bo at baseball card breakdown. he said he had a sandy koufax card to trade. 

he said it was a '63 jello. and asked if i would like to own that fine fellow. i replied without a second to lose, and what comes next? a pwe trade!

here is the aforementioned koufax

classically cut by someone working with scissors in an amateur style, but it's still a 1963 sandy koufax card. as an aside, i was thankful for my dad having a paper cutter at his office where we would go to cut up the topps team card sets that i sent away for in the late 1970s and early 1980s. we didn't buy hostess products (certainly not boxes of them) so i don't recall cutting any cards off of boxes as a young collector.

the card references sandy's no-hitter against the mets and other accomplishments achieved in 1962 as he was just starting the dominance that led to him becoming the legendary pitcher he is known to have been today. sandy is approaching his 89th birthday but still looks good. he's been shown on tv at a few dodger games this past season and i hope he is able to make it out for some clayton kershaw starts next year.

unexpectedly, but not surprisingly, bo included a few more cards to keep koufax company on his way to my mailbox. he sent a few albuquerque dukes from the 1991 line drive set to get me closer to a team set. here's billy bean

and john wetteland

who are a couple of the more recognizable names from that dukes team. it's not quite the same as the 1981 dukes set which had a bunch of dodger prospects like mike marshall, greg brock, and candy maldonado. plus a pitching coach named sandy koufax, although claude osteen is in the 1991 set in the role formerly handled by koufax.

bo also included a 1990 topps kaybee kings jack morris card

this is my first look at these - i think i last went into a kaybee store in 1988 or 1989. bo saw that this card shows morris' number 47 and is a better balanced card than the 1982 fleer card i currently have in my retired number collection. i'll give this as a replacement some consideration!

thank you bo! please reach out about cards like this to trade anytime!