We here at Nerd Baseball were torn about whether or not to add any Chirs Sabo cards to the Nerd Archive. On the one hand, he single handedly brought Rec-Specs into the public consciousness. On the other hand, those things never really took off, and he ended up being one of the only guys to wear them. On the one hand, among casual baseball fans, he ranks extraordinarily high on the name-recognition scale (for a nerd). On the other hand, finding Chris Sabo nerd cards is almost too easy. There’s no sense of wonder, or discovery, when you find one.
In the end, we found a couple that we decided were keepers.
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Happy Opening Week everybody. Regular nerd schedule resumes on Monday.
Tags: 1989, 3B, distorted faces, fleer, glasses, most famous nerd, nerd, nerds, rec-specs, reds
I remember Sabo being among a group of highly-touted rookies in 1988-89. I hoarded up his cards, along with Mark Grace, Gregg Jefferies, Gary Sheffield, Ricky Jordan, Walt Weiss, and Ken Griffey, Jr. Some of those guys had pretty awesome careers. Sabo wasn’t one of them.
Weiss won the AL Rookie of the Year in 1988 and Sabo won the NL award, with Grace finishing second.
How I miss the Rec Spec era.