I mentioned before that I used to have cards shipped to me at my work. Cards would languish there for extended periods of time before I would get them put away. I have been catching up on that recently and came across some stuff I forgot about. I'm not sure who sent it but I recently found a complete 1998 Pawtucket Red Sox Team set in my stuff to put away. (I suspect it was friend of the blog and Red Sox super-collector Mark Hoyle but it was so long ago I just don't remember for sure)
The team set was already in nin card pages and just needed to be put into the correct binder. Only there was this.
The holes are in the wrong page. I have never seen a page like this before. Actually I have never seen any problems with any Ultra Pro products before. Because of that, Ultra Pro is the only kind of supplies I buy. I'm still going to use this page but it is going to used for a PWE instead of card storage.
The aforementioned 1998 minor league team set doesn't have much going for it. If you are not a Red Sox fan the only player you might recognize is Trot Nion.
There are a few others that eventually got a call up too but none that made a big impact. The one that is recognizable to Red Sox fans is Lou Merloni but not for his exploits on the field. He is now the Red Sox color guy at NESN.
The Red Sox had some great color guys over the years in Remy, Eckersley, and then Youkilis. Merloni is ok, he has grown on me the longer he has done it. I still think Youkilis, who filled the gap after Eckersley, was better but even then he was only a part time announcer. Youkilis is a respected former team player and at the same time he is modest and self depreciating in a way that is just perfect for TV. Eckersley was the exact same way and Eck was my favorite color guy that ever covered baseball and the playoffs are REALLY missing him right now. (I don't count Vin Scully as color because to me he was mostly a one man booth otherwise my all time favoritewould be Scully)
Oddly enough the only card in the set with multiple players on it is Merloni and Nixon. It's like they knew who was going to be best remembered.
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I know Merloni from his career, didn't know he was a broadcaster now. ... Yeah, Eckersley was an interesting broadcaster, and not in the "bad" interesting that so many current broadcasters are. I liked Remy, too. Barely recall Youk in the booth.
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