I am pleasingly close to completing a decade, just 29 players away from a card of every player to wear a Sox uniform during the 1980s.
Pictured, of course, is a gorgeous Donruss 1982 Jerry Remy. By gorgeous I mean kind of boring, and a fairly unimaginative effort. But Donruss was but a year old then, so we will let it pass.
Remy is probably better known as a broadcaster than the "100th best secondbaseman in history according to Bill James" at this point. I have never heard him, since he works for NESN, which was an extra cost when I lived in New England oh so long ago. The first I heard of NESN was that we didn't have it, and that was where most of the Red Sox games were, which pissed my wee self off. I liked Bob Montgomery on WSBK. Since that is what we had.
Player, and years played with the Sox, not card years;
Jack Billingham, 1980
Sam Bowen, 1977-1980
Brian Denman, 1982
Jim Dorsey, 1984-1985
Lee Graham, 1983
John Lickert, 1981
Tom McCarthy, 1985
Stan Papi, 1979-1980
Dave Schmidt, 1981
Danny Sheaffer, 1987
Ted Sizemore, 1979-1980
Chico Walker, 1980-1984 (minor league cards)
Hell, I don't even know if all of them even had cards as Red Sox.
And now, a musical interlude. Rock!
This is all off the top of my head, so I may miss a few:
ReplyDeleteBrohamer is in a Red Sox uniform in the 1980 Topps set. So is Sizemore and Larry Wolfe.
Mike Brown, Rich Gale and John Henry Johnson all appear as Red Sox in mid-80s sets.
Roger LaFrancois is in the 1983 Topps set as a Red Sox.
I'm sure there are others. I'll look to see if I have some of these for you. Some I know are tied up in sets, though.