Showing posts with label 1980 burger king. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980 burger king. Show all posts

21 January 2009

have it your way

davey, sorry, dave lopes was featured in the 1980 burger king 'pitch-hit-run' set, the only dodger to be included, i might add. i think he was part of the 'run' subset. i guess the dodgers had neither pitchers or hitters that year. or was this like the all-star roster with one rep from each team? nope. the astros had 5 players, and a few teams had zero.

this was the first national burger king set, i believe. prior to this, there were regional team issues (yankees and phillies were two that i am aware of). anyway, at least they used a different photo for the card.

here's lopes' 1980 o-pee-chee card, which had the same photo as the topps version, of course.so the king's version was not much of a variation, but still enough for me to get excited.

it's too bad the card doesn't smell of flame broiled goodness. at least they held the pickles.