My Two Cents- Three-thousand hits, five-hundred home runs, and a bunch of Viagra commercials. I best remember Raffy for wagging his finger in front of Congress proclaiming he was not a steroid user a year before he failed a steroid test, blaming the failed steroid test on a bad B12 shot he got from Miguel Tejada, and then returned to the field with ear plugs to drown out the boo birds. Palmeiro was a terrific player, but the last few months of his career absolutely ruined himself with me. Sorry if you are a fan, I am not. This is the hard part about doing a set blog, inevitably you run across a player you do not like. Rafael Palmeiro is the first, but certainly will not be the last.
The Card Back- Palmeiro was a really good player and stats bare that out. It appears he's massaging his backside in this photo, maybe he was on "B12" in 1999 too.
Video Highlight of Raffy- Raffy's son played baseball for NC State and had this crazy little league home run in an ACC Tournament game.
Pretty cool that he played in the second most games in the 90's.
ReplyDeleteCool little factoid. Pretty cool that Raffy and Ripken were also on the same team for many years.
DeleteIt's a still really neat card though. Awesome photo!
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