Today is National Savings Day, an appropriate day in October, as we watch playoff baseball and continue to post PINK baseball cards as we help our friend Collecting Cutch bring awareness to the deadly disease that is Breast Cancer.
We save, and have saved, many baseball cards in our lives, and in the case of yours truly, I've done a better job of saving baseball cards than money.
Currently my TCDB total is at $872. 07...of course, that's not what I'd get for them, but it's a nice number to have, and I've barely scratched the proverbial surface of cards that I need to enter.
Saves in baseball have only been an official statistic since 1969.
We all have our favorite team closers, guys who came out of the bullpen and saved games for our teams.
In 1984, Tigers closer Willie Hernandez had what's possibly the best year any reliever has ever had, saving 38 of 39 games, winning bother the American League Cy Young and MVP Awards.
Couldn't find any pink cards of Willie, but he has a few 1980s cards with pink card backs.
The Tigers certainly have had a bad run of relievers and closers for the past decade, or so, but we still find out favorites to root for.
Who's your favorite closer for your team?
Do you have a favorite closer that didn't/doesn't play for your team?
👉👉 I'll be posting my answers in tomorrow's Tigers Card Tuesday.
Have a awesome Monday, and, as always, thanks for taking time out of your day to read my blog.
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I suppose my favorite Mets closer would be the guy who had the job when I was a kid, the late Tug McGraw. My favorite non-Mets closer is that favorite of the card blogosphere, Hoyt Wilhelm. Of course neither would have been called "closer" in their day.
ReplyDeleteTug was terrific. Tug met his son Tim's Mom while playing baseball in Jacksonville, and Wilhelm played there as well, back in the late 1940s.
DeleteFavorite Red Sox closer would probably be Jonathan Papelbon. Non-Boston winner is Rollie Fingers.
ReplyDeleteThe A's and Padres have had their fair share of notable closers. I remember getting pumped whenever I had the opportunity to see Hoffman or Heath Bell come into the game for the Padres. As for the A's... Eck and Balfour are ones that stand out.
ReplyDeleteAs for Willie Hernandez... it took awhile, but I finally landed his autograph for my left-handed Cy Young Award winners collection.
That's a unique collection, I like that a lot.
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