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How the Best Baseball Card of 1984 Made Us Wait
(This is Day 25 of our series on the “Best Card From” each year, 1960-1989. Read all the entries here.) We all stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before us. That goes for scientists, who build on the discoveries of the generations before them to push forward our understanding of the natural world.…
How the Best Baseball Card of 1984 Made Us Wait was originally published on Wax Pack Gods
Throughout the history of sports, there have been nicknames for groups of athletes. Similar to tag teams in wrestling, a new incarnation or addition almost always ruins the original. In the NBA, every team these days has a "Big Three." The recent Celtics had it almost as a homage to the 80's Celtics from which the moniker was born but now every team that slaps three "stars" together has a Big Three. I'm looking at you Miami. Football usually just slaps the word new in front of an old nickname. The "New" Monsters of the Midway. The "New" Steel Curtain. It's lazy and the "news" are never indicative of their predecessors. But baseball takes the cake. Ruben Sierra replacing Jose Canseco to team up with Mark McGwire as the Bash Brothers made little sense but the airbrushed 1993 Upper Deck made it even worse. But that is not the nickname on trial today. It is Houston's Killer Bees. Or B's. Moving on. The two staples of this trio are two will-be Hall of Famers, Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio. Lance Berkman and a Carlos Beltran cameo would be indoctrinated into the group later. Some even had Sean Berry (really?) as a "member" during his Astros stint. But who was the third B in the "B"-ginning? (wow that was terrible) Derek Bell that’s who. Don't feel bad if that name doesn't ring a bell (wow that was even worse) but he did knock in over 100 runs twice while in Houston. It's just he was a distant third fiddle to two of the most revered athletes in Houston sports history. So that he no longer has to sit in the first two B's shadow, I will burn the 2001 Topps Traded of Derek Bell when he was on the Pirates...and terrible. And had a mustache.
