Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Outfield Luis Terrero played five seasons in the major leagues, for the Diamondbacks, Orioles and White Sox. In 243 games he hit .234 with 14 HR and 52 RBI. Now the hitting coach for the Greeneville Reds minor league team, he kindly answered my questions about baseball cards.

"I was a baseball & basketball card collector as a young kid growing up.
Thanks!

It's tough work being a street vendor, for a lot of reasons. One of them is to be outside in all weather. I was really cold looking through some boxes in 30 degree weather. After a while my hands were starting to freeze and I was having a hard time sorting through cards. So I kind of rushed through it - fortunately I did a pretty good job and only pulled one card I had already (the '98 Bowman Sexson).

Catcher Brayan Pena played twelve seasons in the major leagues for the Braves, Royals, Tigers, Reds and Cardinals. In 638 games he hit .259 with 23 HR and 164 RBI. Now the manager of the Tigers' Gulf Coast League team, he kindly answered my questions about baseball cards.

"My first baseball big league card was one of the proudest moments in my career, because I was thinking about showing it to my kids one day. Both of them are collecting cards and they have my cards in there. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Thanks!

Swapped a few more cards with Al this week.
I had to grab an Edgar after the Hall of Fame announcement. Found a Tino I needed too. (You can tell what part of the alphabet I was in.) The Oswalt was the only dupe out of the lot.

After laying forgotten on the floor of the Tallahassee postal facility for a few weeks, Johnny's trade package finally arrived in New York yesterday. At the time he sent it, I needed all of the cards. A few of them I since picked up in my recent lot purchases, but they would have been dupes then anyway. All but one of the cards was a part of one of Johnny's more obscure mini-collections.

The 1958 Vada Pinson is the one that doesn't fit. Just a rookie card of a guy with 2750+ hits, 250+ HR and 300+ SB. Extremely cool. I know a lot of people like to rag on yellow baseball cards, but yellow '58s are some of my favorite vintage cards. The '66 Eddie Fisher fits the minicollection though. That year he reached #2 on the charts with "Games That Lovers Play".
 Five from 1970, including Fisher again. In 1970 he was laying low after his divorce with Connie Stevens the previous year. In 1970 Tony Gonzalez had not yet been born; that year Atlanta's tight end was Jim Mitchell, who had a solid 11-year career. Chuck Taylor the basketball shoe guy had died the previous year. Bob Reed was in his first season starring as Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch, while Lee May had his second straight 30-HR season in Cincinnati.
Gonzalez and Taylor are available for trade if anyone wants them.
 Frank Baker is probably here for Hall-of-Famer Home Run Baker, but he isn't even the only Frank Baker in the '71 set (there was also Yankees shortstop Frank Baker). In 1972 The Jimmy Stewart Show was cancelled after one season. Boog Powell was born twenty years after this card was produced, and made his big league debut with Seattle in 2017. He is now with the Padres. Yankees legend Bernie Williams was a five-year-old in Puerto Rico in 1973. Reggae singer Jackie Brown's record Bearded Babylon came out in 1976.
Stewart (a high number!) and Powell are available for trade.

Back in early December Johnny and I had another vintage trade. My package made it through all right but his got caught in postal purgatory. Good thing it wasn't a Christmas present! Johnny pushed through a "find request" last week (I didn't know about those) and that seemed to get things going. Supposedly it will be delivered today.

Even though it was not at all his fault, Johnny generously sent a surprise PWE to apologize for the delay. Some great stuff inside:
One card each from seven different vintage sets. Perez is one of the last big names I need for '75. Jake Gibbs rookie card is great. On Charley Smith's card I learned that he was the Yankees' return for trading Roger Maris to the Cardinals. And that Bob Locker is one of the weirdest airbrush cards ever. I learned from the Hall of Fame's baseball card blog that the "Cubs centerfielder" was Reggie Jackson.

Remember The Astrodome sent a bunch of vintage cards to me recently in a trade, representing three different years.

Some great '64 rookie cards. I love how Dave Bakenhaster's name was so long, they had to put it in lowercase.
 A bunch of '72s. The Elliott Maddox is my favorite, a lot more personality than you usually see in a simple headshot.
 Four more as I close in on '74. I love vintage team cards!

The back: It’s understandable that with a fifteen-year career there wasn’t enough room for a blurb, but they could at least have made the font bigger.