Mike Schmidt Collection

1983 TOPPS MIKE SCHMIDT ALL-STAR

Card #: 399

Owned ✅, PSA Grade: 9

1983 TOPPS MIKE SCHMIDT STICKER BOXES-HAND CUT

Card #: NNO

Owned ✅

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1983 TOPPS MIKE SCHMIDT SUPER VETERAN

Card #: 301

Owned ✅

1983 TOPPS STICKERS MIKE SCHMIDT #10

Card #: 10

Owned ✅

1983 TOPPS STICKERS MIKE SCHMIDT #172

Card #: 172

Owned ✅

1983 TOPPS STICKERS MIKE SCHMIDT #270

Card #: 270

Owned ✅

1984 7-11 SLURPEE COIN MIKE SCHMIDT CENTRAL REGION

Card #: IV

Owned ✅

1984 7-11 SLURPEE COIN MIKE SCHMIDT WESTERN REGION

Card #: IV

Owned ✅

1984 7-11 SLURPEE COINS EASTERN REGION MIKE SCHMIDT

Card #: IV

Owned ✅

1984 ALL-STAR GAME PROGRAM INSERTS MIKE SCHMIDT HAND CUT

Card #: NNO

Owned ✅

Ugh.

Snarky Says

The Master Set Registry looked at three years of identical hand-cut paper and said, "Yes, all of these are essential.”

1984 CHILDHOOD DRAWING OF MIKE SCHMIDT

Owned ✅

A true 1 of 1, I drew this when I was eight years old. I created a lot of big-headed cartoons of athletes, which were all taped to the wall by my bed. This one was my favorite.

Snarky Says

Forty years later, the drawing is still here. The wall space is gone, but the problem remains. Looking back, this was probably the first warning sign. But at least eight-year-old Andrew understood the most important rule of caricature: make the head bigger.

1984 DONRUSS ACTION ALL-STARS MIKE SCHMIDT

Card #: 57

Owned ✅

1984 DONRUSS CHAMPIONS MIKE SCHMIDT

Card #: 11

Owned ✅

1984 DONRUSS MIKE SCHMIDT

Card #: 183

Owned ✅, PSA Grade: 8

1984 DONRUSS MIKE SCHMIDT DK STEEL

Card #: 23

Owned ✅, PSA Grade: 8

Snarky Says

The hobby's ability to assign significance to a missing letter should be studied by scientists.

1984 DONRUSS MIKE SCHMIDT DK STEELE

Card #: 23

Owned ✅, PSA Grade: 9

The Donruss Diamond Kings were such a cool idea, and I love this card. But one thing has always bothered me about it. It doesn’t particularly … look like him. In my opinion. And this isn't a lone occurrence — its's a common theme across Mike's career that artists just couldn't quite get his features down. With a few exceptions, just about every rendering I've seen feels just a little … off somehow. See the supporting images below to see what I mean. Granted, I had the same problem when I was 8 years old and tried to draw Mike, but that was a caricature. I'm talking about real artists making real efforts to create earnest representations of the man. I will say that there are even pictures of Mike that don't look like him, and I secretly suspect he might be an alien or maybe a changeling who occasionally got his shape wrong on picture day. I don't know — it's just weird is all.

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Snarky Says

I don't know how to explain it. Every portrait looks like Mike Schmidt until you look at Mike Schmidt. He may have periodically molted, leaving artists to document whichever version happened to be in season. Whatever the case, I'm convinced Mike Schmidt was impossible to draw accurately. Even Mike Schmidt occasionally looked like someone trying to draw Mike Schmidt.