There are many things this generation of baseball players will be remembered for and, good or bad, there are some baseball players that may be forgotten altogether.Jim Thome is one of the best home run hitters in the game, but it's seemingly rare that he gets enough credit for what he does. Part of the problem may have been where he has played. He spent most of his career in Cleveland, went to Philadelphia for big money in the early part of this decade and spent the last couple of years with the White Sox.
Thome was recently traded to the Dodgers where he's expected to be a pinch hitter, the nasty hitter who can crush a ball in the blink of an eye.
However, Thome has 564 career home runs, which is 12th on the all-time list.
For someone with as many home runs as has, I feel he hasn't gotten enough attention over the years. If I am off base, please let me know. But I don't recall Thome being mentioned in the same breath as Mickey Mantle or Jimmie Foxx or Mike Schmidt.
According to Beckett, he only has two rookie cards: 1991 Bowman #68 and 1991 Upper Deck Final Edition #17F. Both come at a steal on eBay.
A PSA 10 of the Bowman (pictured) recently ended at $20, but you can get one ungraded for just a few bucks.
A 100-card lot of his Upper Deck FE cards went for under $100, all ungraded.
For a member of the 500 home run hitter club, Thome doesn't get enough respect or credit for what he has done. And, from everything I've heard, Thome is one of the good ones.
A 100-card lot of his Upper Deck FE cards went for under $100, all ungraded.
For a member of the 500 home run hitter club, Thome doesn't get enough respect or credit for what he has done. And, from everything I've heard, Thome is one of the good ones.
