I Got a Cookie in the Mail

 Not this:

But this!

1971 Topps Cookie Rojas - #118

That flying Mr. Rojas (and all the cards in this post) came to me from Joe at The Sandlot.  We'd been working on a trade for awhile...he sent me the cards last fall(!!!) and I am just now posting them.

Cookie was the main thing I wanted from him, but I ended up with a bunch of other stuff I wanted, too.

The scan doesn't show it well, but this is an acetate card.

2007 Upper Deck Elements - #103 - Mark Teahen

This is a metal card

1999 Skybox Molten Metal Explosion - #126 - Jeremy Giambi

This is Jeff Montgomery shooting his arm as a gun.

1997 Metal Universe - #95 - Jeff Montgomery

And this is Keith Lockhart getting attacked by a ginormous spider and some vines.  Oh Metal Universe....how I love thee.

1997 Metal Universe - #94 - Keith Lockhart

Here's Greinke with a nice blue border.

2009 UD A Piece of History - #43 - Zack Greinke - Blue Parallel - #/299

And a couple of old guys:

2007 SP Legendary Americana - #62 - Jefferson Davis

2007 SP Legendary Americana - #68 - Samuel F.B. Morse

That Samuel F.B. Morse was quite a looker (and so many medals!)  Anybody know morse code?  I've got a hankering to go buy a telegraph machine now.  My first message will be:

"SOS - I AM A ROYALS FAN - PLEASE HELP"

Does anyone else have any "Legendary Americana"?  These are actually pretty neat.

Thanks again, Joe! 

Christmas Card(board) - Name's The Same

Colbey over at Cardboard Collections sent me a Christmas card!

  

(What's that you say?  Christmas was 2 weeks ago?  Well...I'm a little behind.)

 

1996 Leaf Signature Series - #138 - Keith Lockhart

That was a very nice gesture -- He tossed this little beauty in there.  This is an on-card auto of Keith Lockhart from the 1996 Leaf Signature Series.  COMC says this was out of 3500(!).  Poor Keith -- his signing hand must have been so tired.  I guess that's not as bad as Marshall Faulk signing all those cards for the Madden game -- that took him months!  But I digress...

I had actually forgotten that Keith Lockhart had played for the Royals.  I remembered him as a Brave. He was mostly an IF platoon guy during his time in KC.

This brings up another thing -- famous people with the same name.  There's lots of them!  Both within sports and sports/non-sports combos.  Baseball Keith Lockhart is not even the #1 Keith Lockhart google result.  It's this guy:

Smug Keith Lockhart

This Keith Lockhart is the conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra.  If you grew up with only 5 TV channels like I did, you inevitably came across PBS showing the Boston Pops on the 4th of July and this guy was front-and-center.  It takes a certain amount of compulsiveness to be a professional orchestra conductor -- worrying about little details that most of your audience doesn't understand or won't notice.  That's gotta wear on a guy.  That and wearing cummerbunds every day... :-)

Do any of you guys remember EITHER of these Keith Lockharts?