General Forum

I was adding my Orioles cards to my collection earlier and when looking around I noticed something interesting. I noticed that Rene Gonzales on his 1989, 1990, AND 1991 Score card, the backs all make a reference to his jersey number being 88, the then, (or still, I honestly don't know,) highest in O's history. It also mentioned it on his 1991 Topps card. I just thought how interesting it was to see such thing, and more so that 89 and 90 used his quote, "It's consistent, and its infinite." with the only part changing is once he said it mysteriously, and once enigmatically. This just seems like a way for Score to fill up space, in their then long backs. Are there any other cards like this, where it repeats the same fact on a card, (preferably an then-active player for obvious reasons,) for multiple years?

Yes, Score needed to fill up card backs, especially if the player didn't have a lengthy career or many career milestones yet. You might be able to find several repeats in those early sets (1988-91).

88 on its side is a double leminscate - infinite indeed.

Hovering around .200 Batting Avg. and just 3 Home Runs from 1989-1991, there might not have been anything else to write about.

Topps mentions that Willie Randolph played stickball in Brooklyn in both 1981 and 1985.

He was a Blue Jay for about a  month one season, but he was no Kelly Gruber, Garth Iorg or Rance Mulliniks even ... and that's all I have to say about that.

A BUNCH of Ozzie Smith cards (playing days and post-career) talk about him hitting a left-handed home run in the 1985 NLCS to win the game. Ozzie was a switch hitter and the team didn't even win the series with that game win. It's also not the greatest career achievement for Ozzie. He wasn't a power hitter anyway, but hitting an HR left-handed seemed to be very special to the card manufacturers.