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The Art of the Fake Pose in the 1987 Topps Card Set

JoeSportsFan
Apr 27, 2009

Many baseball card experts say that the 1987 Topps set is the best of our generation. I have no complaints, given that they provide a litany of fake poses.

Player note: Mike Aldrete didnโ€™t give a crap if it made the photographer uncomfortable. He insisted on having his picture taken with absolutely nothing on below the waist except for his lucky cowboy boots.

Player note: As soon as his eyes connected with the photographerโ€™s, Billy was consumed with discussing Louisville Sluggers, wood, and lumber.

Player note: It wasnโ€™t just that the rookies took his job, Dale Mohorcic couldnโ€™t accept the fact that none of the younger pitchers drove American trucks.

Player Note: Royals beat writers contend to this day that every person who mocked McRaeโ€™s tarp-undershirt got a telephone thrown at their head.

Player Note: Lynch set a club record in 1987 by acquiring eight different strains of influenza.

Player Note: โ€œDear Tengen, thanks for the power surge in RBI Baseball. Coming off the bench in your video game made my home run prowess that much greater. One small problem, though: Iโ€™m not hitting the ball worth a shit thisย  year, so Iโ€™m hoping that when the rumored โ€œRBI Baseball 2โ€ณ comes out, you guys will fall back on old pal Tony from "RBI 1." To do otherwise would be an injustice to society. Thanks.โ€ โ€“ Tony Armas, June 1987

Tags: 1987 Topps, Boston Red Sox, mustache, unheralded video game star

Player Note: Sure, she was two and a quarter, but it didnโ€™t matter: Steve Crawford was going to marry the woman with the orange towel around her neck who fell over the right field wall onto Ellis Burksโ€™ head. Burks would miss four games as a result of the accident.

Player Note: Speck is currently in formal legal proceedings to sue the Snuggie Corporation for ripping off the idea that he created to keep warm in the Braves bullpen 22 years ago.

Player Note: Even though the Latin jokes made sense to everyone in the Cubby clubhouse, Chico never understood why Vance Law called him the โ€œSpanish Boy.โ€ He did understand street brawls, though. Chico carried his bat everywhere.

Player Note: Of his near-200 career stolen bases, 163 of them involved Bob explaining to the second baseman โ€œHow the Grich stole secondโ€.

Player Note: There was no freaking way that Ted was having his Topps profile pic with a hat on.

Player Note: Ortiz wowed teammates when he was able to fire a wad of sunflower seeds from his mouth like a machine gun. He skipped the winter leagues the following offseason to spit professionally at the San Diego Zoo, where he fired seeds at the elephants and chimpanzees. Zoo officials deemed the stunt unsuccessful.

Tags: 1987 Topps, Pittsburgh Pirates, beard, jheri curl, unnecessary helmet

Player Note: When the ice cream vendor at the Kingdome filed a complaint, Seattle law enforcement was skeptical that Mike Brown was โ€œobsessed with ice cream and those who serve it.โ€ Not long after, police raided Brownโ€™s home and found the walls and floors covered in melted ice cream and chocolate syrup. A local ice cream truck was recovered from Brownโ€™s garage with its tires slashed.

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