GA Russell Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Don Mincher has died. I have two memories of him. The first is when he and Earl Battey were traded by Bill Veeck to the Senators for Roy Sievers. The second was the Senators' last game in '71. We waited outside to wave goodbye to the players, and out last came Frank Howard riding with Mincher in Mincher's Caddy. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-don-mincher-20120306,0,4706014.story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 RIP. I was born in Minneapolis, but the family shortly therafter moved away. Some of my earliest baseball memories are of Twins radio broadcasts circa 1965 (the year they won the pennant) - Mincher was a memorable part of the lineup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Did you know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted March 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Thanks Jim! It occurred to me that I forgot to mention that I had his bubble gum card in 1960 - #548 above. I remember it because it was in the seventh series (the #500 cards) which were not widely sold each year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Seventh series...ah, the kids today, they just don't know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 In my neck of the woods, sometimes the 7th series didn't even make it to all of the stores. I distinctly remember 1970. Rico Petrocelli was my favorite player and in 1970, his card slipped into the 7th series. I went to the W.T. Grants department store in downtown Holyoke, the only place in town that had 7th series packs, and bought a whole bunch of packs just to get Rico. I got a lot of other hard to find cards because of that. We sold all our cards decades ago, but I still have that 1970 Rico card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 We were lucky to get deep into the sixth series, never mind the seventh...I wonder if anybody did get the seventh series in stores? Seems kind of weird to make them and then not sell them...I know that series always had a lot of traded players in their new uniforms and rookies who had kinda gotten hot during the season, so I don't think it was all part of the same production planning, all seven series. Never really seen a "formal" discussion of the matter, to tell the truth. Never will forget the day I saw a small ad in the back of Sport Magazine for a place called The Card Collectors Co. Sent off for a catalog and BAM! My twenty-five cents a week was SPENT, Jack! Seventh series cards were like the OOP Blue Notes of my pre-adolescence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted March 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 ...I know that series always had a lot of traded players in their new uniforms... Yes, Mincher's 1960 card was an example of that. He and Earl Battey were traded in the spring to the Senators, and his card had a picture of him wearing his new Senators cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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