03-30-2021, 06:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2021, 06:59 AM by zeprock.)
RE: Zeprock Collection
RE: Zeprock Collection
Not only do I collect baseball cards but I also collect any softball players I can find cards of. Basically any card that is baseball or softball related as you've probably already surmised from my stamps, POGs, coins, etc. That brings me to today's post. Today I am showing you nine cards featuring women.
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1994 Colorado Silver Bullets Coors #2 Julie Croteau (The Colorado Silver Bullets were an all-female professional baseball team that played in the United States from 1994 to 1997. Julie is recognized as the first woman to play men's NCAA baseball and is one of two women to ever play in a MLB-sanctioned winter league, and her baseball glove and photo are on permanent display at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Julie has something in common with the last player I featured on this thread as Phil Niekro was her manager with the Silver Bullets.)
1994 Ted Williams #98 Alma Ziegler (In each of the two years that the Ted Williams Card Company issued cards, each set included a subset devoted to players from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Ziegler was an infielder and pitcher who played from 1944 through 1954.)
2000 BBM Japan # Aki Hoshino (Aki is a Japanese "bikini idol". This card is a Japanese version of a first pitch card issued back in 2000, a decade and a half before Topps began issuing First Pitch cards.)
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2002 Bench Warmer #72 Sunni Hemme/Bonus Card (Some may not consider this to be a baseball card but I beg to differ. Bench Warmers motto is "Trading cards never looked so good". The set featured female models sporting different pieces of sporting equipment. The set includes women on cards with football, basketball, hockey, soccer and other sporting equipment but it is the baseball related cards that drew me to the set. Hemme worked as a professional model as well as a professional wrestling valet and ring announcer. She appeared in music videos by Trace Adkins and Blink-182 and in Maxim, Rolling Stone and Playboy magazines gracing the cover of the April 2005 issue of the latter.)
2007 Sports Illustrated for Kids #139 Caitlin Lowe Softball (Caitlin was a silver medal-winning Olympian softball player in 2008 and is regarded as one of the greatest college softball players of all-time. She played for the University of Arizona Wildcats and led her team to back-to-back NCAA Women's College World Series Championships in 2006 and 2007.)
2007 Sports Illustrated for Kids #179 Monica Abbott BB (Monica was a pitcher for the Tennessee Lady Vols and was a teammate of Caitlin Lowe on the 2008 Team USA silver medal team in Beijing. She currently pitches in a Japanese softball league.)
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2006 Topps Allen and Ginter #303 Jennie Finch (Finch pitched for the Arizona Wildcats and won the 2001 Women's College World Series and helped lead Team USA to the gold medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was also on the 2008 team that took silver in Beijing and has been described as the most famous softball player in history. She has also worked as a color commentator for ESPN.)
2008 Bench Warmer Limited #11 Camille Anderson (Camille is a former Miss Austin USA who currently lives in Los Angeles where she works as an actress, model and tv host. This card is from the Bench Warmer's 2008 set. I dare say her curves rival Kershaw's. <IMG SRC="https://www.beckett.com/forums/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif">)
2017 Topps First Pitch #FP37 Camilla Luddington (Camilla is an actress best known for her role on Grey's Anatomy and for being the voice of Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video games. Here she's preparing to throw out the first pitch at an Angels game.)
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1994 Colorado Silver Bullets Coors #2 Julie Croteau (The Colorado Silver Bullets were an all-female professional baseball team that played in the United States from 1994 to 1997. Julie is recognized as the first woman to play men's NCAA baseball and is one of two women to ever play in a MLB-sanctioned winter league, and her baseball glove and photo are on permanent display at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Julie has something in common with the last player I featured on this thread as Phil Niekro was her manager with the Silver Bullets.)
1994 Ted Williams #98 Alma Ziegler (In each of the two years that the Ted Williams Card Company issued cards, each set included a subset devoted to players from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Ziegler was an infielder and pitcher who played from 1944 through 1954.)
2000 BBM Japan # Aki Hoshino (Aki is a Japanese "bikini idol". This card is a Japanese version of a first pitch card issued back in 2000, a decade and a half before Topps began issuing First Pitch cards.)
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2002 Bench Warmer #72 Sunni Hemme/Bonus Card (Some may not consider this to be a baseball card but I beg to differ. Bench Warmers motto is "Trading cards never looked so good". The set featured female models sporting different pieces of sporting equipment. The set includes women on cards with football, basketball, hockey, soccer and other sporting equipment but it is the baseball related cards that drew me to the set. Hemme worked as a professional model as well as a professional wrestling valet and ring announcer. She appeared in music videos by Trace Adkins and Blink-182 and in Maxim, Rolling Stone and Playboy magazines gracing the cover of the April 2005 issue of the latter.)
2007 Sports Illustrated for Kids #139 Caitlin Lowe Softball (Caitlin was a silver medal-winning Olympian softball player in 2008 and is regarded as one of the greatest college softball players of all-time. She played for the University of Arizona Wildcats and led her team to back-to-back NCAA Women's College World Series Championships in 2006 and 2007.)
2007 Sports Illustrated for Kids #179 Monica Abbott BB (Monica was a pitcher for the Tennessee Lady Vols and was a teammate of Caitlin Lowe on the 2008 Team USA silver medal team in Beijing. She currently pitches in a Japanese softball league.)
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2006 Topps Allen and Ginter #303 Jennie Finch (Finch pitched for the Arizona Wildcats and won the 2001 Women's College World Series and helped lead Team USA to the gold medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was also on the 2008 team that took silver in Beijing and has been described as the most famous softball player in history. She has also worked as a color commentator for ESPN.)
2008 Bench Warmer Limited #11 Camille Anderson (Camille is a former Miss Austin USA who currently lives in Los Angeles where she works as an actress, model and tv host. This card is from the Bench Warmer's 2008 set. I dare say her curves rival Kershaw's. <IMG SRC="https://www.beckett.com/forums/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif">)
2017 Topps First Pitch #FP37 Camilla Luddington (Camilla is an actress best known for her role on Grey's Anatomy and for being the voice of Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video games. Here she's preparing to throw out the first pitch at an Angels game.)
My Huge Wantlist: http://www.zeprock.com/WantList.html