Comments on: Card Corner–Bump Wills http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2009/01/29/card-corner-bump-wills/ Development site for Bronx Banter Blog's upcoming look and feel Sat, 18 May 2013 23:37:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Cliff Corcoran http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2009/01/29/card-corner-bump-wills/#comment-251470 Cliff Corcoran Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:22:07 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=7501#comment-251470 Those error cards aren't worth much anymore best I can tell. I picked up a very reasonably priced '79 Topps set via ebay recently. It had both versions of the Wills card and that wasn't even mentioned as a selling point of the set. I'd love to get one of those Washington D.C. Padres cards from the '74 set though. I think Willie McCovey was one of the players with that error. Those error cards aren’t worth much anymore best I can tell. I picked up a very reasonably priced ’79 Topps set via ebay recently. It had both versions of the Wills card and that wasn’t even mentioned as a selling point of the set.

I’d love to get one of those Washington D.C. Padres cards from the ’74 set though. I think Willie McCovey was one of the players with that error.

]]> By: FreddySez http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2009/01/29/card-corner-bump-wills/#comment-251469 FreddySez Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:29:00 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=7501#comment-251469 I got to know Bump a little when he was managing the Short-A Hudson Valley Renegades in the mid-90s and I was writing for a local weekly. Every bit the baseball lifer -- intense, but accessible and friendly as long as he saw you knew what you were talking about. The league was so laid-back that we were allowed on the grass in foul territory to take photos during games, and during a workout, Bump let me stand next to him behind the L-screen while he pitched BP. A nice vantage point to fill out our photo file on all these never-heard-of-them kids. (We all had our eyes on a raker named Cliff Brumbaugh, who won the NY-Penn League MVP and batting title in 95 but ended up playing only 21 games in the bigs. There was a speedy guy named Podsednik on the squad who turned a few heads as well, though.) Anyway, back behind the L-screen with Bump, wailing away with my manual Minolta and film someone else would pay to develop. Someone hit a liner right back off one of the steel pipes. Bump didn't pause in his delivery, or turn his head away from the plate. But he broke into a broad grin and said, "Watch those cajones!" I got to know Bump a little when he was managing the Short-A Hudson Valley Renegades in the mid-90s and I was writing for a local weekly. Every bit the baseball lifer — intense, but accessible and friendly as long as he saw you knew what you were talking about.

The league was so laid-back that we were allowed on the grass in foul territory to take photos during games, and during a workout, Bump let me stand next to him behind the L-screen while he pitched BP. A nice vantage point to fill out our photo file on all these never-heard-of-them kids.

(We all had our eyes on a raker named Cliff Brumbaugh, who won the NY-Penn League MVP and batting title in 95 but ended up playing only 21 games in the bigs. There was a speedy guy named Podsednik on the squad who turned a few heads as well, though.)

Anyway, back behind the L-screen with Bump, wailing away with my manual Minolta and film someone else would pay to develop. Someone hit a liner right back off one of the steel pipes.

Bump didn’t pause in his delivery, or turn his head away from the plate. But he broke into a broad grin and said, “Watch those cajones!”

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