White Sox Card of the Week: 10-30-2009

Written by: Steve Gierman on 30th October 2009

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1988 Donruss Baseball's Best

1988 Donruss Baseball’s Best #249 – Ken Williams

This is my favorite time of year. Maybe it’s because I was born in autumn. It could be that I love to watch the leaves change color. It probably is some hidden childhood memory involving trick or treat candy. It also has to do with the World Series.

What does a dayglo colored baseball card from 1988 have to do with autumn, Halloween or the World Series? Other than a Count Floyd inspired posting about this card on my White Sox card blog, not much.

What I do know is that some year, for Halloween, I will buy a few sets of these, bundle them up in team bags, and hand them out to unsuspecting trick or treaters. Will this cause toilet paper to hang from my tree and egg yolk to freeze to the side of my house? Maybe. If I can give one kid a smile from receiving baseball cards in their bag, it will all be worth it.

Ever since 2005, when Kenny Williams orchestrated a series of moves that brought the Chicago White Sox a World Series championship, I can’t help but turn my thoughts to him this time of year. I wonder what moves he has up his sleeves for the offseason. I know he’s itching to get back to the postseason. So am I! I know that each year, the White Sox have a legitimate shot at making the playoffs.

It doesn’t happen every year. Things happen during the course of a season. Players look better on paper sometimes. Injuries occur. Players on other teams have career years. Other teams get lucky. It’s the unpredictability that makes the game exciting to watch. Any team on any day is capable of beating another team.

One Halloween, I will pass out orange, black and red cards of a .218 lifetime hitter, mixed in with other questionable players deemed “Baseball’s Best”. Maybe the next time the White Sox make the World Series. At least I won’t be like the lady who gave out toothbrushes, pencils and pennies when I was a kid. OK, maybe it’s similar to giving out pennies, but definitely not toothbrushes. That’s where I draw the line.

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