Favorite card pairings!

[Aaron Seefeldt]

Each one of these rare cigar label proofs shows more of the in progress ballgame in the background.

[Cubanball]

Keeping with the catching theme. Here is a pair of Miguel Angel "Mike" Gonzalez cards. Mike Gonzalez is super underrated for a man who was a true baseball pioneer. He was one of the first Cubans to play in the Major Leagues (1912). He had a 17 year major league career. He became a well respected coach with the St. Louis Cardinals and manged the team on two short occasions. In Cuba he was a long time player, manager and team owner of the Habana club. His baseball involvement spanned seven decades.

[molenick]

I collect three sets: DeLong, Diamond Stars, Wilson Franks. There are several players that overlap between the first two but only one that overlaps with Wilson Franks.

[rats60]

These two rare Topps test issues pair perfectly.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by molenick

I collect three sets: DeLong, Diamond Stars, Wilson Franks. There are several players that overlap between the first two but only one that overlaps with Wilson Franks.

That is a VERY cool pair, sir!

[molenick]

Thank you! I kind of like the matching photo/card pairs (Lewis and Richards) but they're all cool.

[MikeGarcia]

[BioCRN]

1933 player, 1955 ump.

He's not the only player/ump, but he had one of the most successful player careers compared to the other umps.

Warneke played until 1945, but his first experience as an umpire was in 1940 while still a player.

A rained-out game between CIN and STL was rescheduled, but because of NL oversight there were no umpires booked to work the game. The game was delayed while they went looking for umpires from an earlier played game, finding only 1 before he left town. An official game needed 3 umpires, so each team provided a player to umpire 1st and 3rd. Lon Warneke was the STL representative umpire at 3rd base.

[molenick]

I thought of another pair I have.

[JimC]

Love these two together.