Showing posts with label 2003 Upper Deck First Pitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2003 Upper Deck First Pitch. Show all posts

Friday, April 23, 2010

2003 Upper Deck First Pitch

Since, I received this pack for coming in second place in Madding's NCAA bracket contest, I thought I would post it for everyone to enjoy.

As always I start with the pack wrapper:


Here was, by far, the best card of the pack, a Roy Oswalt. Oswalt is an interesting player: he has been one of the top pitchers in the NL for a while. Yet, he still does not come very close to the Hall of Fame according to several different metrics (you need to scroll down quite a bit).


Here's the back, so you can take a look at some of his stats in case you do not want to click on the link.


Next come three middling players: Ryan Klesko, Jay Gibbons, and Geoff Jenkins.


I guess to be fair Klesko had the longest career, Jenkins a shorter but still solid career, and Gibbons never got a second chance after failing a PED test.


Last, is a "Star Rookie" of a player who had an even shorter less productive major league career than Gibbons: Raul Gonzalez. Maybe he decline the PEDs. Hey, at least I pulled a Met!