147 - Domingo Jean

 

Front: Pitching

Back: Pitching

Better side: The front looks like spring training, the back looks like regular season. I love the indifference of the player with his back to the pitcher. The front photo wins. 

Ties to my personal collections: None. 

Paragraphs in wikipedia entry: 8

Wiki-facts: "Jean was the last active New York Yankee player to wear number 42 before Mariano Rivera donned it in 1995."

Google it: The image that comes up when Domingo Jean autocompletes is his 1992 Bowman card. You know the one...

How was his strike-shortened 1994? He'd already pitched his last MLB game at this point.

Birthday boy: January 9, 1969. A very boring date. Nobody on the -reference sites. Nobody on the January 9 wiki entry. Zzzzzzzz.

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146 - John Jaha

 146 - John Jaha

Front:  Doing something defensively.

Back: At the plate.

Silver Sig:

Better side: The front not only works with the horizontal format, but with the design of the card as well.

Ties to my personal collections: None. 

Paragraphs in wikipedia entry: 7

Wiki-facts: "Jaha became only the second player (after Joey Meyer) to hit a ball into the upper deck at Mile High Stadium."

Google it: Nothing out of the ordinary. Just baseball stuff. Normal is good.

How was his strike-shortened 1994? Went .241 with 12 HR and 39 RBIs. 

Birthday boy:  May 27, 1966. NHLer Ray Sheppard, who put together a solid 14 year career was born that date, and the NBA has another journeyman type born that date - Eric Leckner. 

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