I have always wondered about this card - were the Giants celebrating their League Championship out on the field, in a fresh rain, or could this card be from the locker room, afterwards?
As it turns out, when the Final Out was caught (fittingly, by the player on this baseball card), the infield in San Francisco was already looking like open water puddles. Ahh, life in the 21st Century, where anything that ever happened can be watched again and again.
And thus, this is actually perhaps the most rain ever seen on a baseball card.
Other playoff/WS cards have probably done a better job of showing off a trophy handed to a player, but I don't expect very many such cards include the word "Champion" right in the image.
The only mystery left to this card is — just who are the two guys with grey hair?
Uniform Hero? While I think it would a pretty neat feat of baseball card trivia to somehow link a Playoffs card to some certain checklist #, the number 68 and this player and this event have exactly zero connection points. Which is of course par for the course on most baseball card checklists.
Where’d the egg hatch? The Giants had won the World Series just two seasons prior, making this the middle point of a mini-dynasty in the National League, as it all worked out.
How about the migrations? To reach this NLCS comeback from a 3-1 deficit to St. Louis, the Giants had first spotted the Cincinnati Reds a 2 game deficit before roaring back to win the NLDS, the hard way.
Don’t flip over real Turtles.
14 Hits in a League Championship Series certainly explains the front of this card, perfectly.
On this card, for once the usually rather plain line score by innings here nicely echoes the text, or vice versa perhaps.
Bling That Shell I don't plan to use the orange-on-red combo often as a go-to choice, particularly with how much more difficult it is to get good combos for the blue teams. But I want to get every (or, almost every) color combination into the project at least once; things are breaking right on this page for the Target Red parallel to meet an orange Sea Turtle:
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