Ads
related to: 2005 donruss throwback threads baseball list of items worth
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Once again, "Baseball's Best" was sold in big-box stores as a complete factory set. Notable card in this set is Sammy Sosa, Donruss was the only company to release a licensed major league baseball card of him in 1989. Donruss would not produce a "Baseball's Best" set again until 2001.
The novelty was that the brands had modern players with designs from past years. The baseball cards had the design from 1952 for its 2001 selection of Heritage baseball cards, 1953 design for 2002, 1954 design for 2003, and so on. Bowman Heritage was also started in 2001 and used the following throwback designs: 2001: 1948 Bowman; 2002: 1954 Bowman
March 6 – Danny Gardella, 85, left fielder for the 1944–1945 New York Giants who was the first major leaguer to challenge baseball's reserve clause in court; "jumped" to outlaw Mexican League in 1946 and suspended from Organized Baseball, but was reinstated in 1950, when he appeared in one game for the St. Louis Cardinals.
The game was said to resemble Strat-O-Matic in the amount of game detail. [1]Gameplay involved using only one type of card, the Player card. Each Player had 17 statistics. Offensive players would play a card representing the type of swing a batter is using, while the defensive manager would choose the pitch with a card play
The 2005 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2005 season. The winners of the League Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series .
As of the 2024 season, this is the last season in which no no-hit games were pitched; 2005 was also only the 6th year since 1949 in which no such games were thrown. [a] This was the first season since 1993 that all teams played at least 162 games with no cancellations.