Tuesday, January 21, 2020

The (Second) Dime Box Frankenset Bracket: Cowan Region (Pt. 1)


The last round of play-ins are done, and our bracket is finally set!

#6 (Page 26) -- 1973 Topps #231 Bill Parsons (25 votes)

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#15 (Page 73) -- 2013 Topps #649 Ryan Hanigan (14 votes)




#7 (Page 36) -- 1993 Donruss #319 Geno Petralli (21 votes)

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#14 (Page 70) -- 1993 Topps #623 Al Martin (16 votes)




#8 (Page 49) -- 1996 Upper Deck #434 Al Martin (22 votes)

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#13 (Page 65) -- 1993 Upper Deck #582 Brian Hunter (15 votes)




#12 (Page 56) -- 2017 Topps #499 Danny Valencia (27 votes)

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#9 (Page 20) -- 1996 Collector's Choice #173 Gary Gaetti (11 votes)




#10 (Page 27) -- 1974 Topps #238 Fran Healy (26 votes)

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#11 (Page 48) -- 1992 Stadium Club #430 Howard Johnson (12 votes)

Only one upset in the bunch (Valencia over Gaetti), and none of the matchups were all that close -- so without further ado, it gives me great pleasure to announce that THE FRANKENSET BRACKET IS OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY!

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I've named the four regions of this bracket after the four top finishers in the first frankenset bracket: starting with the Frankenset King himself, of course, Billy Cowan.

Each region features eight first-round matchups -- since I think it might be a little much to ask my readers to decipher and vote between eight different pairs of cards at the same time, I'm dividing each of these first round pairings into two groups of four, to be voted on over two separate weeks.

Here, my friends, are the first four matchups from the Cowan Region.





#1 (Page 68) -- 1972 Topps #611 Rich Reese

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#16 (Page 36) -- 1993 Donruss #319 Geno Petralli





#8 (Page 37) -- 1996 Stadium Club #333 Jay Buhner

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#9 (Page 18) -- 2017 Stadium Club #156 Lucas Duda





#5 (Page 58) -- 1996 Collector's Choice #522 John Smiley

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#12 (Page 52) -- 1972 Topps #464 Jim Roland





#4 (Page 62) -- 1973 Topps #555 Bill Hands

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#13 (Page 4) -- 1973 Topps #32 Fred Norman

The polls are now on the sidebar -- happy voting!

3 comments:

P-town Tom said...

I like how you named the four brackets after former top finishers. Very cool idea!

Brett Alan said...

I'd have chosen them anyway, but how could I not vote for both of the '72s in the Cowan region?

Chris said...

So the 5-12 match-up is basically Smiley vs. smiley :)

Also, Is that '73 Fred Norman card from a Padres home game? No wonder they almost moved to D.C. Their attendance was pitiful!