Comments on: How to Find Peace and Love with the 1971 Topps Vida Blue Baseball Card https://staging.waxpackgods.com/1971-topps-vida-blue/ Mom didn't throw out your memories. Wed, 26 Oct 2022 22:48:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Adam Hughes https://staging.waxpackgods.com/1971-topps-vida-blue/#comment-1049686 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:12:47 +0000 http://staging.waxpackgods.com/?p=3389#comment-1049686 In reply to MichAEL FOX.

Thanks for sharing those memories (and for reading). Sounds like he really was a joy to watch.

]]> By: MichAEL FOX https://staging.waxpackgods.com/1971-topps-vida-blue/#comment-1049371 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:47:56 +0000 http://staging.waxpackgods.com/?p=3389#comment-1049371 Nice article. I remember well that early, stellar season of Mr. Blue. I was ten or eleven years old and had never seen a pitcher, one, in such control of the ball and of the game and, two, exude such joy in the effort. One of the most memorable aspects of Blue’s stellar year was the way he ran to and from the mound. Every inning. It was as if he could not wait to get on the field and, when leaving, it was as if he thought the sooner he got off the diamond the sooner he could get back on. If you never saw him pitch that year, you can have no idea just what a joy-filled phenom he was. Thank you, Vida Blue, for some extraordinary images, on film and on cardboard and forever etched in my mind.

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