Comments on: Don Hood

By: beeatle

beeatle — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:18:17 +0000

Just like it said inside the back cover in Argosy, that stick-on moustache really does match the men’s nylon fashion wig.

By: johnq11

johnq11 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:47:27 +0000

What’s Hood wearing?? some kind of satin disco jacket? It doesn’t even look like it’s a team jacket or anything related to baseball.

I never liked the ’77 set, to bland for my taste. There’s a couple of nice cards but overall I not a fan of the set.

Look at that crappy green dugout from the old Municipal stadium in Cleveland. God, what a depressing place/team that must have been to play for during the 70′s and 80′s.

By: sb1902

sb1902 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:57:45 +0000

When I got this card as a kid, I felt totally ripped off. As Josh mentions, there was very little to suggest Hood was connected with baseball at all. But it was just the Indians, so who cared anyway, right? That was pretty much my feeling.

By: gedmaniac

gedmaniac — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:44:25 +0000

“Also, is it just me or does there seem to be some kind of sculpted head by his right elbow?”

Wow, despite the fact that this is the type I would think only I would notice, I never would have noticed it if you hadn’t pointed it out. It almost looks like Hood’s head, too. And if you imagine the rest of the green background as part of the “sculpture,” it looks like the head is flying across the card from right to left at a high speed, with its trail partially obscured by Hood, but visible to the right. Trippy.

By: ramblin' pete

ramblin' pete — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:23:58 +0000

Great post, Great card…
Perhaps the most appropriate name and image Topps has ever delivered.
Hood looks like an extra in a mid-70′s Scorsese film.
My best friend, back in those days of Baio-coiffure-dom, had a switchblade comb – it was his prized posession. He never let me hold the damn thing for more than ten seconds.

I was always about fifteen cents short of sending away for “onion gum,” or “itching powder.” Never did it, but what I really fantasized about were those x-ray specs. I still wonder, did they work?!?

By: gb5hof

gb5hof — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:54:29 +0000

He’s got a rough and tumble Kenny Loggins look to him on that photo….

By: piehead

piehead — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:09:07 +0000

I’d like to think Don Hood is shivving somebody in an alley today, in honor of his 60th birthday.

By: redsoxeveryday

redsoxeveryday — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:47:04 +0000

He looks like he’d fit right in with one of the gangs in Michael Jackson’s Bad video.

By: thunderfan24

thunderfan24 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:53:14 +0000

Lowenstein’s card looks like a photo on a sex offender registry website.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:40:38 +0000

Another vaguely unnerving Indians card from that same year seems as if it might feature the same clammy wall seen in this Don Hood card. Check out John Lowenstein.