Cardboard Fenway: 1986 Fleer Rich Gedman

Cardboard Fenway - #15. 1986 Fleer Rich Gedman

I didn't mean to bunch two Gedmans so close together, but here we are. And that's the right-field grandstand and bleachers behind him.

Cardboard Fenway: 1986 Fleer Roger Clemens

Cardboard Fenway - #58. 1986 Fleer Roger Clemens

Here's the Rocket pitching during a game in 1985. Notice the rangy infielder behind him kind of looks like Marty Barrett.

Cardboard Fenway: 1986 Donruss Oil Can Boyd

Cardboard Fenway - #52. 1986 Donruss "Oil Can" Boyd

Oil Can Boyd is a many-splendored thing: You got the personalized jacket, the killer old-people shades, the puffy towel/sweatshirt, the mean grin. Plus, I think that's a blurry Roger Clemens in the background.

Cardboard Fenway: 1986 Fleer Bob Stanley

Cardboard Fenway - #23. 1986 Fleer Bob Stanley

Stanley's posed here in front of the screen over the posh box seats behind home plate. The press box and rooms for the radio and TV crews is just above the screen.

Hey Apatow, Don't Forget the 'Stros

With the news that Judd Apatow's upcoming film Ped-O-Van will feature Jonah Hill as a bumbling community worker named Glenn Davis, I can't help but hope that the filmmaker will remember to include the yellow, orange and red of a throwback Astros jersey in Hill's wardrobe.

Something tells me that chances on seeing an old Astros jersey are slim, probably as likely as the possibility of seeing a character with an un-ironic mustache in an Apatow comedy.


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