Call to Arms: Bob Gibson's 68 Card

[MEAT]

what's the point?! better to start a campaign to obliterate the non-sensical mystery card format. go ahead, spend a fortune on gibson, even if they had the sense to include the 1968 version, you'd only have a 1 in 5 chance of actually using it, and might just as easily get the fading 1974 version for all your time and effort and $25. but hey, atleast he'd have the same * and 9-inning endurance rating. pathetic. :oops: :twisted:

[bernieh]

Sorry - but we had no input in the season selection process - a team at the Strat-O-Matic Co. was responsible for that, and delivered the set to us all at once. We have since realized that we should have asked to have had a bigger say in the matter, and will do so next time, in the event we build another Mystery Card game in the future.

[LMBombers]

[quote:3ebb4d50c1="he's meat"]better to start a campaign to obliterate the non-sensical mystery card format. [/quote:3ebb4d50c1]

Go back to your own yard and play then. :twisted:

[Sykes25]

[quote:112066385c="bernieh"]Sorry - but we had no input in the season selection process - a team at the Strat-O-Matic Co. was responsible for that, and delivered the set to us all at once. We have since realized that we should have asked to have had a bigger say in the matter, and will do so next time, in the event we build another Mystery Card game in the future.[/quote:112066385c]

To Bernie's point...

Calrton cumulatively had his best years in the 60's. Would it be fair to have included Gibson as the highest paid pitcher in this set whose best year was NOT in the 70's?

That, my friends is likely the reason why Bernie was not represented with Bob Gibson's card.

[RiggoDrill]

[quote:858948020c="MtheB"]Just as a business decision alone, its mind-boggling that Gibson's 68 card is not included.
Let's change this now and get his 68 card in the mix--Hey everybody wins--TSN makes more money, we get the card we dreamed of (well at least once in awhile.... :-)[/quote:858948020c]
I don't have a problem with this. ...as long as we get a [i:858948020c][b:858948020c]60s [/b:858948020c][/i:858948020c]game with Gibby's MVP season! 8) :wink:

[YountFan]

What is the big flap about ONE card for? Once you see it you'll say it ain't worth the money anyways.

[MtheB]

Well I don't know what bank you go to, but Ole Pete and that steep salary does not seem to be a deterrent of any kind to drafting him first often.

Imagine being able to have a shot at getting on one team:
68 Gibson
72 Carleton
78 Guidry....

you get the picture...now that would be great fun trying to find the right key very cheap players to make that team go....

[genegrid]

SIMPLE SOLUTION: A new 60s mystery card game! Call it

"STUCK IN THE 60s" or "The 60s you can't remember" or

"This ain't your Father's 60s"

[divad]

A "LOVE 60s" Game would seriously rival atg3 as my favorite. For that decade game, I would definitely need the 1968 Bob Gibson. Why should he be "a stranger to the game"?

[canauscot]

Gibson's 68 or anyone else's pre-68 is really a different era. You'd be hard pressed to get a card to replicate anything like those stats when you possibly have a Brett '80 to face him.

I agree with an earlier post, the real crime is no MVP-ROY Lynn.
It is why I began to follow baseball as a kid.