The Red Sox through Baseball Cards

Welcome to the Red Sox baseball card blog, where we will be celebrating the history of the team and anticipating its future through baseball cards of its players and prospects. I am building up my baseball card collection, which I started as a five-year-old in 1970, and continued throughout the 1970s, stepping away from it for a few years in the early 1980s, followed by a brief return to it in the middle to later part of that decade. Nearly 20 years after having last collected, I've begun again with great enthusiasm, looking mainly to fill in the many gaps since 1970, but also looking to gather as many pre-1970 cards as possible. Thanks for joining me on my journey.

I've begun with one of my favorite Red Sox cards - 1970 George Scott - one of my favorite players, from the year I began collecting. I must admit, I recently bought this card, not having had it within the very modest collection of early 1970s cards from my youth, but it hardly dims my enthusiasm for such a beauty. The profile and smile, especially with so many more typical stern and serious poses by most of the Red Sox through the years, stands in bright contrast, with the player exuding a joy for the game, and contentment and pleasure in his livelihood. I also discovered from this card - one of the joys of collecting; you learn a lot of neat things about players from what's on the back of cards, particularly cards from yesteryear - what a terrific defender Scott was. I remember him more in his second go-round with the Sox, in the late 1970s when I was a bit older, and mostly for his thunderous bat. But this very card instead tipped me off to the many gold gloves he had in fact won. This corrected my blurred image of simply a burly, more DH-like player, with that of a force on defense, one who graced third base and then first base, and played a pivotal role, with his glove as well as his bat, in the Sox' miracle season of 1967. In fact, after researching it further awhile ago, I recall during that research former manger (may have been Dick Williams) saying to the effect that Scott was the best first baseman he'd ever seen. Wow!