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Monday, April 1, 2019Year: 1964 Set: Jay Publishing Kansas City Athletics Set B (Rate) “ Ironically, Jim actually IS Jewish. ” -ketchupman36
“ I heard Jim Gentile once hit a ball so hard, it collapsed into a black hole and swallowed up the entirety of the Athletics' field. ” -Tylergallo
“ Changed his name from Jim Wrecker early in his minor league career. ” -Splinter_9
“ Jim was the son of Giovanni Gentile, the "Philosopher of Fascism" and member of the fascist Italian government under Mussolini. A well kept family secret until 1966. When truth about his father came out, no team would have him and his career was over. ” -C2Cigars
“ Nice, vintage Topps card following up his MVP season. I had to smoke a LOT of cigarettes to finally pull this one. ” -switzr1
“ I really really want to like this card because it isn't a big name card company and it is an older card but it is just so boring. ” -davidhandberry
“ Did you know that this is actually a very rare lemon juice inked copy of "Diamond Jim"s 1964 Jay Publishing photo? By soaking the card/photo in lemon juice the "invisible" ink on the back gives Jim's complete 1963 stats. The two players in the background are the indication of this variant. The regular NO Juice variant just has one player in the background. ” -captkirk42
“ Surprisingly, Jim Gentile is an Orthodox Jew. ” -AirPete
“ Not known to many, Jim is the Gentile being referred to when the phrase gentleman and Gentiles is used. ” -rmpaq5
“ I wonder what he’s looking at that’s off camera. ” -fedoratipper
“ Jim's favorite pastime is making farting noises with his armpit. ” -kirkscards
“ Jim Gentile was actually brought to the Athletics to pickup clubhouse spirits with his hilarious armpit noises. The Athletics were shocked when they learned he could actually play the game as well. ” -muskie027
“ A 5X7 example of design simplicity at its finest. No stats, no psychedelic mumbo-jumbo to clutter the image in the mind's eye. Yeah, that's rich. lol ” -CollectingAfterDeath
“ Jim Gentile won the 1964 North American Armpit Fart Championships (NAAFC) and took silver in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, losing only to the Soviet Union's Boris Ivanytsky by two decibels. ” -Bounty13
“ Knowing Jim wanted to start his first season in Kansas City with a clean slate, Jay Publishing took him too literally by applying White-Out to the back of each of his cards. ” -DanD
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