1993 Topps - Catcher Prospects Piazza/Delgado

I like the 1993 Topps multi-prospect cards. The print quality is a big step-up compared to multi-prospect cards from the early-eighties and before. This is one of those multi-rookies that happen to have more than one big star on it - Brook Fordyce and Donnie Leshnock. Just kidding, it is Piazza and Delgado.

Combined, Delgado and Piazza hit exactly 900 home runs. I'm not sure why MLB allowed those home runs, everybody else has to bat all by themselves. just kidding. Brook Fordyce hit 41 home runs in his career. Poor Donnie Leshnock never made it to the majors. As far as I can tell he only hit 1 home run in the minors.

You'd think that a rookie card containing a total of 941 home runs would be worth a billion dollars. But Topps probably made 5 million of this card. The card runs about $5.

Piazza made it into the HOF because of all the mashing he did as a catcher. Delgado mashed more (outscoring Piazza in most categories), but he abandoned catching by the time he made it to the majors so his mashing was at a less important position, so they weren't worth as much as catcher hits. I suppose it doesn't matter that Piazza was a terrible catcher.