1992 Topps #928 Gino Minutelli

Gino Minutelli pitched for 3 seasons in the Majors. He spent 1990 and 1991 with the Cincinnati Reds, and 1993 with the San Francisco Giants.

Gino never got any Topps cards in regular sets, but was in 1991 Bowman, 1991 Topps Debut, and 1992 Stadium Club sets. He is, however, one of the few players whom I have completed their Topps run for by making multiple cards. I made his 1991 Topps card as part of my project to give the 1990 World Champion Cincinnati Reds a 1991 Topps card, I have his 1992 Topps card as part of this project, and did his 1994 Topps card when completing the 1994 set. Here are his 1991 and 1994 Topps cards to complete his Topps run.

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-Jeremy

1992 Topps #876 Donnie Scott

Donnie Scott is one of those strange players that you find in a set who has a big gap in between MLB seasons on the back of his card. He came up in '83 with the Rangers, played with them in 1984, then had a season with the Mariners in 1985. He toiled in the minors from 1986-1990, then got into 10 games with the Reds in 1991, his final season. 

Donnie appears on 3 Topps cards, a 1985 regular card, a 1985 Traded card, and a 1986 regular card. He is missing cards in the 1984 and 1992 Topps sets, and this custom brings the total down to 1. 

It's going to get crazy here in the next week, as the DeJong household will be hopefully closing on our first house on Thursday. Work has been getting crazy for me, as we are already shorthanded, and apparently another bakery is worse off than we are, so we have to give them some people, so between work and moving, I think I'm going to go insane. I still might try to post some cards during my lunches at work just to escape the insanity for a little while. Soon it will be back to normal I hope. Thanks for checking out my latest card.

-Jeremy

1992 Topps Ted Power

Ted Power pitched in the most games for the '91 Reds, but was still left off of the 1992 Topps set. He had a pretty decent season, and was included in the 1991 set, but that would be his final Topps card, even though his last season in MLB was 1993. Power had a pretty decent career, getting 27 Saves in 1985, and winning a World Series title in 1981 in his rookie year. He appeared on Topps cards from 1984-1990, missing out on cards in '82, '83, and '92-'94. 

It was hard finding a photo of Ted from his second stint with the Reds, and I think this photo may actually be from his coaching career. His hat looks like a newer-style hat, and it looks like a wedding ring on his left hand, which I don't believe he would be wearing if he were a player and not a coach. Other than that, I'm happy with the card.

This should be my last post for a week or so. I will be going on a cruise at the end of the week, and am either working or at a doctors appointment the rest of the week. I worked on a ton of backs in the last 2 days, and have now completed the backs of every coach card. The next card I will be doing a back to is card #1294, and I have only 42 more cards left to make backs to and the set will be complete. Maybe sometime in the next month or so.

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-Jeremy

1992 Topps Don Carman

I decided to finally dust off this blog and start working on the backs of some of the cards. Next up is card #822, Don Carman. Don pitched most of his career with the Phillies, and spent the last 2 seasons with the Reds and Rangers. His last Topps card was in the 1991 set. 

While reading about him in Wikipedia, I found out a few interesting things. He almost threw a perfect game, but Milt Thompson missed a flyball on what would've been out #27. I've never seen footage of the play, but from the description, it seems as if it could've been called an error and he would've at least had a no-hitter. 

I guess once, Carman got tired of reporters asking the same questions, and made a list of 37 standard responses that he taped to his locker and had reporters use them for their inteviews. 

Lastly, I guess he misplaced a pile of fanmail, and his wife found them after many years, and she had Don respond back to all of them. I remember reading about it in 2008 or so, and sending Don a card to sign, and sure enough, it came back signed a few weeks later. 

I'll probably slowly but surely post more fronts and backs of cards as I have time. Hopefully it will give insight on some of the players Topps left off their 1992 set and inspire Topps to produce cards of every Major Leaguer. If not that grand of a scale, I hope that anyone who reads this enjoys it and I would be thrilled if you want to get some of these cards printed to either add to your collection or try to have autographed. There are many good through-the-mail signers in the checklist, and I think some of these would look great signed. 

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-Jeremy

1992 Topps Cincinatti Reds team set

I finished the last card of the Montreal Expos today, making it 7 teams that are complete now. The next team, the New York Mets, shouldn't be that difficult, and with a day off tomorrow, I don't see why I shouldn't get through them, and maybe the Philadelphia Phillies. The latest team set I'm posting is the Cincinatti Reds team set. Topps missed quite a few Reds in their '92 set, and that seems a little funny, given that they were World Champions the year before.

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-Jeremy

1992 Topps Lou Piniella All-Star

For the first card added to the 1992 Topps set, I decided to give a card to the manager of the 1991 NL All-Star team, Lou Piniella. Lou led the Cincinatti Reds to the World Series title in 1990, and for his efforts was named the manager for the NL in the 1991 All-Star game. Topps had an All-Star subset, but didn't include managers in it. Lou also appears on a base card in the 1992 set (card # 321).