6 more cards out of the COMC box!
Saturday 24 May 2014
COMC Challenge Cards Part 17: The Name Game
A simple game. These are cards I picked up just because I liked the player's name.
Petey Paramore might not have the most spectacular name of this group, but if you say it out loud, it does sound like it could belong to a really cheesy professional wrestler, probably one who never got past the opening matches on the indies. Name notwithstanding, I admire his love for The Price is Right. At least he didn't say Match Game '98.
It was a travesty that my collection did not have any appearances from Tim Spooneybarger. But, his MLB career did come from a period when I wasn't collecting. That problem has been rectified.
Giuseppe Chiaramonte or Vito Valentinetti. Pick the more Italian name out of this duo.
Over to hockey. I've posted two Hakan Loob cards this week. They were the first 2 cards of Hakan Loob in my collection. That's another collection travesty.
Duffus might not be doofus, but it is close enough for government work. And close enough that I wouldn't want it printed across the bottom of what would be the only mainstream card of his career.
6 more cards out of the COMC box!
6 more cards out of the COMC box!
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Great stuff! I will accept Doofus. That first card is fun in addition to the name. I'm pretty sure there's a Spooneybarger in my collection as well.
ReplyDeletePetey Paramore was walking home one dark night when beings from another dimension came up to him, made him a galactic guardian of Planet Earth and granted him the abilities of a jungle cat... and thus the Powerful Panther-Man was born!
ReplyDeleteI really like that Q&A theme to that USA Baseball card... that's a fun way of bringing some interest to an on-card signature.
SPOONEYBARGER!