In my collection: 3 total, 1 of each color
Griffey looks: about to take a pitch
Is this a good Griffey card? Yes. And thank goodness for that, otherwise I'd be buying 23-year-old chocolate on eBay, and there's just no defending that to the wife.
Mr. October also had his own chocolate bar. The exclamation point makes this thing. |
Griffey is not the only player to get his own chocolate bar, nor is he the first. Obviously, Baby Ruth was named after Red Sox slugger Ted Williams. And the Reggie! Bar with a picture of Reggie Jackson on the wrapper was in fact named after Ron Kittle when he was accidentally called "Reggie" once by his optometrist and the name stuck.
What I really like about these cards is that Griffey's attorney (and/or agent?) is named on the back. That's not something you see much on any baseball card.
Sadly, I doubt I will ever have the actual chocolate bar. It's not that they are expensive (I've seen them go for less than $5.00), or even that it's a perishable item that is extremely old. I'm gross and can deal with that. This guy would agree with me on that point.
My problem is that those of us who live in the New Orleans metro area know we are going to lose everything in our fridges and freezers due to a storm-related power outage roughly every two years. It can't be helped. If this bar doesn't melt from being removed from the freezer in an evacuation, it will become tainted with residual rotten stinkiness from being left in a freezer with thawing meat and such. For now, the cards will have to do.
I am on the lookout for the SNES Griffey Baseball game, though, as that is non-perishable.
Still, a neat collectible and probably my favorite oddball.
I don't have any of the cards, but my son does have the yellow candy bar sitting amongst with baseball collectibles in his room. Thankfully at almost 15, he knows not to try and eat 23 year old chocolate.
ReplyDeleteI may end up buying one anyway. Sadly I'll have to wait until it's winter again because it get extremely hot down here the rest of the time. Melted chocolate is bad enough when it's fresh.....
ReplyDeleteSInce this post I have acquired four Griffey bars, two of each color due to the generosity of a fellow blogger. They live in the freezer in a Ziploc back inside a Tupperware container with the word "NO" written on the lid in Sharpie.
ReplyDeleteI have also changed my official stance on melted chocolate. While unwieldy, it is still delicious.