This weekend, while leaving Target, I saw packs of 2009 Upper Deck baseball cards hanging by the check-out line. Since I hadn’t purchased new baseball cards in over a decade, I figured I’d indulge the impulse buy. If you gave me one thousand guesses, I doubt I would’ve been able to guess who I would find in that pack:
Tags: 2009, pope, target, Upper Deck
(4.89 out of 5)
That’s the silliest rally cap I’ve ever seen.
Saves are a flawed statistic.
Would he have been eligible to play for Italy in the World Baseball Classic? Or did the Vatican field its own team?
I’ll trade you my Ayatollah Khamenei rookie card for this JPII.
Though I have to wonder why they made a card of JP in 2009, when he died in 2005.
Just remember, before he became the Pope, he hit .285/10/2 in AAA before tearing up his knee. Made it harder for him to kneel later, too. ;D
Next up, L. Ron Hubbard’s 1993 Bowman…
Maybe Upper Deck is shifting its focus to religious leader trading cards now that Topps has an exclusive licensing agreement with MLB.
In all seriousness, I was recently browsing an online auction from a big sports memorabilia auction house and one of the items was a signed personal check from Mother Theresa. Didn’t she take a vow of poverty or something? What bank gave her a checking account?
Also, why is this a picture of a guy looking at a picture of the pope instead of a picture of the pope?