When we were kids, after we got through the initial stages of awe, we thought baseball cards were going to be big, serious business.

And sometimes, baseball cards are serious business.

But other times, like on a Friday afternoon … well, you just want to have a little fun.

And what better way to have fun than with some silly old baseball cards?

Here are 10 goofy pasteboards that can make every day feel like Friday after work if you’ll only let yourself go a little.

1951 Bowman Willard Nixon

Willard Nixon is standing outside the club on Friday night on his 1951 Bowman card, ready to unwind after another hard week in the Red Sox clubhouse with Ted Williams. Looks like he may have a head start on the happy juice, too.

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1952 Topps Earl Torgeson

Unfortunately for the diminutive Topps photographer, Earl Torgeson just got a new prescription for his glasses. The Boston Braves slugger is also sick of varmints running onto the field and is intent on ending the problem once and for all.

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1966 Topps Claude Raymond

Topps was a stickler for deadlines when it came to snapping pictures for their baseball cards on the 1960s. It didn’t matter if you were in the middle of a bathroom break when your appointment came up — you would pose for the cardboard cameras. Claude Raymond must have had a leaky memory, because Topps caught him with his fly down in both 1966 and 1967.

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1968 Topps Dan Schneider

Dan Schneider had just broken off a piece of his Jolly Rancher Cherry Stix and got it wedged in the roof of his mouth when the Topps photographer approached for this shot. Alas, Schneider was subject to the same punctuality rules that snagged Raymond above — but you have to wonder if Topps realized the success Schneider would eventually have on Head of the Class and with the Washington Redskins.

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1977 Topps Brian Downing

Brian Downing always loved Friday nights, and he would get gussied up for an evening of baseball, Disco, and high fashion. Though he hated to leave the ChiSox, in retrospective moments, he admits that he’s very grateful for not having been in Comiskey to watch it all crash down around him in 1979.

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1981 Topps Mario Mendoza

Mario Mendoza was at first flattered when the Topps photographer told him that he was being honored with the christening of a new baseball milestone — the “Mendoza Line.” Glee turned to flabbergast as Mendoza learned the particulars, and you can see the nascent moments of his justified protest … his lifetime batting average entering 1981 sat at a robust .213, well above his eponymous distinction.

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1982 Topps Tim Stoddard

Tim Stoddard is normally a shy and unassuming young man, but it’s Friday night and someone in the stands has caught his eye. If he plays his cards right, he might finagle a date to the malt shop after the Orioles game.

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1983 Topps Mike Armstrong

Mike Armstrong subscribed to the Mo Berg theory of baseball success — never tip your hand, always keep your eyes and ears open, and hold your cards close to your vest at all times. You never know when (another) spy is trying to steal your intel — or at least your signs.

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1988 Topps Devon White

Devon White fell asleep reading Gulliver’s Travels in the Angels’ dugout and woke up to find himself hopelessly stranded at the end of a monster basketball dunk in Brobdingnag. Also, his back itches.

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1991 Jimmy Dean Ken Griffey, Jr.

Ken Griffey, Jr., has a fun evening planned after his nameless-team-because-Jimmy-Dean-didn’t-want-to-pay-the-MLB-licensing-fees finishes their game.

His plans include you.

Ken Griffey, Jr., will treat you right — just gaze into his eyes.

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BONUS!!!

1985 Topps Oscar Gamble

As we’ve said before, you can’t have one of these types of lists without an Oscar Gamble entry, so here is us, satisfying that requirement. And, when it comes to Oscar Gamble cards, they don’t come much sillier than the 1985 Topps offering, right? I mean, Oscar Gamble without his ‘fro is like Claude Raymond without his fly open or a band without their signature song.

Come on, Oscar, sing “Come on Eileen” just one more time!

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Ah … Friday!

Your work week (or school week) is almost done, and you’re ready to kick back and enjoy the weekend.

No other day of the week has as tangible a feeling as does Friday … it’s that now Twitter-famous #FridayFeeling.

Too bad you can’t make every day feel like Friday, right?

Well, you can. Sort of.

As with most areas of life, you need only to turn to your baseball cards to help solve your midweek blues or to really embrace the splendors of Friday. I’m sure you have fun, relaxing, quirky, or exciting cards nestled in every corner of your own collection that fit the bill, but here are 10 fun and classic baseball cards that will make every day feel like Friday — at least if you squint and tilt your head the right way..

1954 Topps Ed and John O’Brien

The original Doublemint Twins, at least as far as most vintage collectors are concerned. Who doesn’t love this gem featuring the O’Brien brothers?

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1955 Bowman Don Mossi

Why couldn’t any card manufacturer ever feature Don Mossi in profile rather than in full frontal glory? Because then we’d be denied joys like this card, where Mossi himself seems to be the antenna for the TV in which he appears.

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1959 Fleer Ted Williams — Gunning as a Pastime

Ted Williams led a varied and fascinating life, but he liked to kick back with some serious hunting. What better time to do that than on the weekends?

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1969 Topps Aurelio Rodriguez

Umm … that’s not Aurelio Rodriguez. It’s the Angels bat boy, and their little prank turned a ho-hum 1969 Topps card into a winner for the ages.

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1975 Topps Vicente Romo

[bctt tweet=”That time when Vicente Romo tried out for the position of Dugout Goalie with the San Diego Padres.” username=”WaxPackGods”]

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1976 Topps Kurt Bevacqua Bubble Gum Blowing Champ

This card is so famous it’s almost a cliche — but you can’t have a list like this without it.

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1976 Topps Traded Oscar Gamble

The card whereby Oscar Gamble instantly relegated generations of Afros to the status of “afterthought.” No one before or since has made this kind of cap-defying impact with such a devil-may-care expression.

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1984 Fleer Jay Johnstone

This card fought hard with the Glenn Hubbard snake offering but Jay Johnstone wins out for his weekend-themed hat and a glassy eyes that suggest he may have a head start on us.

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1986 Fleer Mickey Hatcher

How did Mickey Hatcher not win a couple dozen Gold Gloves with that hunk of leather?

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1993 Topps Stadium Club Oscar Azocar

Oscar Azocar may have loved his bat, but it evidently was not quite as fond as him, as evidenced by his .228 batting average of 460 Major League plate appearance.

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