The player you always find in your pack

[ALR-bishop]

1959 Alex Grammas

[bigtrain]

My brother and I plastered the back of our bedroom door with 1967 Phil Roof cards. Seemed like he was in every pack that year. Roof managed to stay in the MLB for 17 seasons while batting .215.

[darwinbulldog]

1986-1989: Teddy Higuera and Carney Lansford

[bwbc917]

In 1960 it was the rookie card with that unspellabe name- Y A Z something.
In 1962 it was Cuno Barragon. Life has a way of evening out.

[HercDriver]

Barry Bonnell in 1979. I could have wallpapered a room with those cards. However, in 1976, I was convinced there was no Bill Madlock card... absolutely convinced!

[midmo]

Originally Posted by HercDriver

However, in 1976, I was convinced there was no Bill Madlock card... absolutely convinced!

lol. My friends and I spent the summer of 1980 trying to get Kent Tekulve to finish our sets. Seems like we had 10 of every other card, but the Tekulve was elusive for some reason. Finally at a birthday party my buddy Aaron got an unopened box as a present. He gave one pack to each of us (at the suggestion of his mother) and his little brother pulled the Tekulve. It was madness. We spent all day working trade offers to get that card.

[JoeDfan]

Vern Ruhle. It seems like every freakin' pack I busted as a kid had at least one Vern Ruhle card. I must have had a dozens of his '79 and '80 Topps.
Rip a pack. Rip a box. Rip a whole damn case. Rickey Henderson? Nope. Vern Ruhle. Reggie Jackson? Nope. Ruhle.

A couple of years ago, I bought some new Topps pack while standing in line in Wal-mart; and I won some redemption for a real vintage Topps card. I remember I was super excited; who would it be? Nolan Ryan maybe? Willie Mays? Maybe even a Mantle?

You know where this is going, right?

Maybe it is time to embrace my destiny, and become the #1 Vern Ruhle collector on PSA.

[Rookiemonster]

I just cracked open a box of the highly sought after 1988 donruss ! My son and I got it from the card show . We got 6 Nolan Ryan's ! Not to shabby if get a buck a piece that pays for the box lol.