Comments on: Skip Jutze

By: trentmerchant

trentmerchant — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:32:05 +0000

Larry Andersen is on that Jack Morris / Tim Jones card – and then again on Future Stars 2 years later – still with Cleveland. No wonder they were so bad – they were recycling average prospects.

Josh – you need to investigate Pete Vuckovich 1978 with the Blue Jays. Brandon got it in his amazing pack this morning. The only painted card where the player seems painted into the uniform, not the other way around – he’s in the satin team jacket, like they painted over a pitching coach.

By: brandonmerchant

brandonmerchant — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:22:09 +0000

Somehow I also got the other Mariners’ heavy hitting backup catcher from 1977 – Larry Cox – in the pack. They look like twins, apart from Larry’s painted-on Cubs hat. That guy was painted 2 years in a row. Quite a pack actually – Tim Jones & Juan Bernhardt too. Tim Jones is incredible.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:00:31 +0000

Any day that features Skip Jutze is a good day.

By: trentmerchant

trentmerchant — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:23:25 +0000

My brother and I just opened 2 1978 packs and he got this card. Never hit a homer through 75. Then hits the first Mariners Grand Slam in 77. On a different team, he could have been your nemesis, Bucky Dent. Or Ozzie Smith in Game 5 of the 85 NLCS. Go crazy folks!

By: mike hutter

mike hutter — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:49:43 +0000

15. sg - I was a high school teammate of Skip on football and baseball teams. He was a great athlete. He quarterbaked our team to an undefeated season in 1962, led the basketball team to its best record in years in the winter and then was all league in baseball in the spring. While I did not see him play in college, he qb Conn Central State for 2 years.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:25:51 +0000

14. 13 : Thanks for chiming in, sg schier. I appreciate it. I intended no disrespect to Mr. Jutze, who by making the major leagues obviously surpassed any professional accomplishment I'll ever attain. These card profiles are generally meant to be extensions of my own doubts and failings and secret joys rather than accurate representations of the figures in the cards.

By: sg schier

sg schier — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:11:52 +0000

13. Skip Jutze was my Summer League coach, 40 years ago- fine coach, better person. Wilker, you got it wrong- he had his years- not just a "day" in the sun, in MLB and other levels of baseball. Also, I believe he was a quarterback in college. Injuries, not lack of talent, ended his career.

By: Joe Romano

Joe Romano — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:05:26 +0000

12. Good lord, could this mean the chicanery I examined previously on Cardboard Gods (see links for each installment of the 3-part series below) is even more widespread than I imagined? WOW! That's pretty scary. The first thing I actually thought when I saw the Skip Jutze was not Guido Sarducci, but Carmen Fanzone!

By: Raf

Raf — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:40:18 +0000

11. 6 Marketing, I presume. I miss the Brewers' "MB Glove" logo, the Expos' pinwheel caps, and the Orioles' "smiling Oriole" logo.

By: springer

springer — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:30:59 +0000

10. The M's ditched the upside-down trident logo because it was associated with nearly twenty years of futility. Which is probably why readers of this site like it so much (and why I won't wear the newer compass rose merchandise). Hurray for ignoble failure.