>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>mfc Celebrates Christmas!!

From 2014 with some updates:

Merry Christmas everybody. Happy Chanukah too. And happy holidays to those who have a problem with good 'ol seasons greetings.

 Wasn't planning on a Christmas post but I just learned Mets Fantazy Cards Like They Ought To Be hit 100,000 (now app. 500,000) views last week. That is absolutely amazin' and deserves a celebration in it's own right.

So for the holidays lets get a peek at some future cards. Or past cards. To you, new cards. :) 

This post goes out to Pat Scalzo @Christmas, who twisted my arm and said," make more cards you slowpoke!" My New Years resolution is to post more frequently Pat.
(I've really tailed off recently, sorry)

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1983 Topps was one of my favorite designs. Pretty much a more modern rehash of the 1963 design.
But George Foster was not one of my favorite Mets. Actually, I hated him (as a player) and his acquisition. But still, he was a Met so he gets a card. I'm like Oprah with the cards. Everybody gets a card! You get a card, and you get a card, and...

I liked Kevin Elster. I liked him even better after he left the Mets and had a great season with Texas, launching 24 long balls and driving in 99 (his only full season apart from the New York). I didn't like that he wasn't a Mets player anymore, but I wished him well on departure and he didn't suck.

 An mfc card in memory of Ray Sadecki. This card won't make the '77 pages. It's an alt that did not make the cut. I have made many alt cards for many players that did not make the cut for some reason (pictured in the wrong year is common), and they have not, and for the most part, will not be seen. I don't want to thin down the mfc collection (1 reg card per player for each year with some special exceptions) or use up all the pics and over saturate the project. I did make the horizontal 77 border for Sadecki's card, and that won't go to waste. The picture used on this will be applied to his '75 mfc card.

 

Since deGrom won ROY (AND NOW A CY YOUNG!!!) I will display an alt card in celebration. At least I think I only posted one of these here.. 

 deGROMs 2019 mfc card v.1

                                                         

Someday I'll finish Tom Seaver's tribute page (I suppose I better start it first) and this next card will be used. I added the RC symbol, then removed it, because the MLB 100th yr anniversary logo had not been created yet in 1967.

When Topps first added the RC symbol they said that it would be restricted for use on only one version of a players card, denoting his one and only actual Topps rookie card. But recently they seem to throw that symbol on anything close to first year cards, and on more than one card of the same player. Shame on them for that.

So what if they did add a RC rookie symbol on the '67 Topps card, what might it have looked like? I figure something like the one pictured in the card.

What should this be called? 

Tom Seaver '67 mfc Update Set card?

'67mfc Seaver/Westrum SP card

Tom gets the ball in 1967 from Mets manager Wes Westrum. Behind Tom you get a glimpse of the 1967 off-white OF wall. The wall was this color the day Tom pitched his first MLB game. Could this picture have been taken on that day? A week or two later the wall was changed to the dark green that it wore throughout the late 60's and early 70's.

                                                        

LIVE! mfc WILD CARD GAME Highlight Cards

One game for all the marbles.

I'm going to try and churn these out during the game. If I am fortunate enough to get in game photos quicky I will post the cards with inning/score updates. I'd love to make one an inning but we'll see how it goes. I will share these through this mfc blog, facebook, tumblr & twitter during the game.

LETS GO METS!! 

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More WC cards to come. 

I ended up having company over so I couldn't whip one up every inning, and at a certain point I gave up and just watched the rest very nervously. What a game. What a ride.

mfc>>>The Regular Season Comes To A Close

This wacky, incredible, ridiculously amazin' and finally fulfilling regular season (weather willing) comes to an end today. What a long strange trip it's been.

And look who's #1!

If you've been following this blog for a while then you know I have steered somewhat off course.

My first Fantazy Card

I was marching up through time telling the New York Mets club history with custom made baseball cards. If you remember I started this blog back in 2013 as a distraction because I was not happy with the current state of affairs with my favorite team.

I never intended to make current cards here. In 2014 I did a Season Set and those cards were displayed on a separate blog. For that project I made at least one card for each game. That was fun but I got a bit burnt out on it at the season's close.

At the beginning of this season I did say I would make current cards for notable games and player accomplishments. I figured I'd be able to make 20- 30 cards. And then  this season happened. This wacky season. As of this writing there are 205 Season Set cards with more coming up before the playoffs.

And you can't say this isn't Metropolitan history.
I left off on game 7 of the 1973 World Series and that page has yet to be completed. And that can wait.

......wait for it.

First we will have NLDS cards! We might have NLCS cards.
And if we're really fortunate, World Series cards!!!
I'll return to the 1973 World Series this offseason.

For now I will totally enjoy being distracted by the 2015 National League New York Mets.

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Mets great Rusty Staub suffered a heart attack the other day. He is said to be recuperating nicely.
GET WELL SOON RUSTY!!

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I'll stick this one down here and maybe no one will see it.
I have to add that it was a magnificent performance.

^That's NYM-SS card #206!^

Next up will be cards commemorating the Mets clinching game vs. the Reds. I know these are late but things have been happening so fast I have to play catchup.

LETS GO METS!!

mfc '72 Boyhood Photos Of The Stars & Stuff

A '72 mfc wax pack can only mean one thing.

'72 mfc cards!

Sometimes you see a photo and right away you know what you want to do with it. When it come's to childhood pictures I always think of Topps 1972 Boyhood Pictures Of The Stars cards. There were three Mets in that side dish.

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  The Ultimate Mets Database
created this "Boyhood Photos" card for their Daniel Murphy page.>
What a great photo! Murph hasn't changed a bit. He was always stupid looking. Ha! Kidding Dan. You look incredibly intelligent there, and very proud of your crossing guard badge.

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I made a few Boyhood cards for the '72 page and I always intended to make more but I haven't gotten around to it. But, like I said, when I see a picture of a player as a kid, it's usually the first thing that I want to do. I saw this photo of Michael Conforto in today's New York Daily News and right away went for the old '72 mfc folder of card borders.

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Yep. Sometimes you find the perfect picture and it dictates what you create. After I started this post I ran into these old/young photos of David Wright and Michael Cuddyer.

Cuddyer was on the Mets!

And sometimes you're making it up as you go along and that makes for a special mfc Season Set card.

☺

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Sometimes you find a photo and you save it thinking that someday you'll figure out a way to use it. And so it was with this photo of Bartolo Colon.

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Sometimes, in this crazy internet world, you run into a dick-pic and you're like: AHHHH how do I unsee that! But it's too late.

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And sometimes you see your little boy grow up to be a fine young man. The biggest and brightest star. And believe it or not, he's more amazin' than the New York Mets.

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Please visit the new 

METS FANTASY CARDS 

facebook page and if you like it, "like it". 

I will be releasing the postseason cards from there if all goes according to plan. I also hope to conduct some fan based polls and things of that nature. 

METS FANTASY CARDS FACEBOOK PAGE

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Coming up sometime in the future will be player awards for the 2015 season. I'm in the process of taking the pulse of Mets nation to see how others feel and who they support.

I might save this til after the postseason.

Yea, the postseason...

LETS GO METS!