Is that George Foster underneath Don Baylor?

I think I may have wasted my life: even before I read the autograph I could tell from the teeth that Derrel Thomas was the player featured in the card next to Baker.

Man - look at Willie. What a kid. Geez.

Alex - cool CD cover. That was quite a gift.

The hard one is the lefty in the top left.

concur with bp1 really cool cd cover

7 hi bama - i was just thinking the other day about how for a fairly small populace state there are a good number of top athletes from bama - yet by and large it seems the communities they come from do not make much of a deal about them at all - there's a few exceptions - leeds is very proud of charles - but i know huntsville could give a damn about jimmy key - what do you think - am i off base?

1969 Topps #394

You're probably right about Jimmy Key. Although, I do recall the Huntsville sports anchors (do you remember Harold Bugg?) always referring to Key as the "former Butler High standout". Maybe people in Huntsville have not forgotten that he spurned both Bama and Auburn to go to Clemson... Who knows.

Good calls guys.

52 alex was there any method to the madness - did you have these cards or these were people/players you liked growing up or just a bunch of random but interesting cards?

Post has a picture of Randolph sitting alone in the dugout. The caption says this was during the game. Does anybody know if this was really during the game? It seems like it must be after the game. If this was during the game, it doesn't look good.

Best rock songs of 1971 (my sophomore year in high school)? I'll preface my choices by saying that it wasn't a very good year for rock and roll. There was more bubblegum tied to songs than baseball cards that year.

In any event, I would go with any and all songs from Who's Next (including Won't Get Fooled Again), Stairway to Heaven and Black Dog by Led Zeppelin, Get It On (Bang a Gong) by T. Rex, Wild Night by Van Morrison, Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes ("Shut Your Mouth"), Have You Ever Seen the Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Changes by Bowie, Black Magic Woman by Santana, and a personal favorite Signs by the Five Man Electrical Band (although I'm not sure it would qualify as rock and roll).

Other great songs that filled the airwaves that year (but more pop or ballads than rock): American Pie by Don McLean, Imagine by John Lennon, and Your Song and Tiny Dancer by Elton John.

Hope you folks enjoy your annual Yanks-Mets festivities, though I suspect the smack talk will be somewhat subdued this year.

61 Word. '71 was rock solid. Traffic's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," Tull's "Aqualung," and what was that Joni Mitchell joint? and the one Steven Crosby did that year?

I was 5 years old, jammin' to mom's Simon & Garfunkel.

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