[baseball tourist]

Originally Posted by Big Six

I'm really excited about my latest pickup. As some may know, I collect stuff related to former top prospect Josh Phelps (Blue Jays, Indians, Rays, Yankees, Cardinals, Giants). As you can imagine, the market for his stuff isn't terribly deep and, frankly, I own most of the good stuff already. So a couple weeks ago, I saw that Celebzdirect was offering Lineup Cards from 2002 as part of thier Sam Perlozzo collection (items he was selling). Seeing as they had a bunch of lineup cards, I figured I'd see if they had any Blue Jay ones from when Josh was on the team. Turns out they had several...and I purchased two. The first, from September 16th of 2002, was from a game in which Josh hit his 15th - and final - home run of his rookie season and accounted for both of the Blue Jays runs in a 2-0 victory over Baltimore. He came in 6th in the ROY voting for 2002 while his teammate, Eric Hinske, won the award.

Very nice!

I too grabbed a few line ups from this offering. A special one for me is from a game not played - resulting in a dated but blank line up card. My friend and I had an early Sept. 2001 road trip planned to watch our Jays play the Orioles in Bmore, and then the tragic events of Sept 11 changed the lives of all of us. This game ready but unused card will have a prominent place in my collection as act as a reminder of all that was lost that day.