The basics: Tim Costo was already on his second major league team at this point, having been traded by the Indians to the Reds for Reggie Jefferson in June of 1991.
Costo's first big league cards are in 1991, including that Topps card of him wearing his Iowa Hawkeyes uniform. Man, I hated those college uniform photos in Topps cards at that time. (Costo makes up for it with a bubble-gum blowing shot on his 1993 Topps card).
Card thoughts: Nice shot. This is already the third Reds cards shown on the blog. I bet Cincinnati thought it had something with all these "Star Rookies," and the Reds were pretty good in the mid-1990s, but met the Braves in their one big shot in the NLCS in 1995.
Backs are important in '93 UD: Another skyscraper. Costo isn't 6-8 like Joe Vitko, but we have our second straight 6-foot-5-or-higher player. Costo was the No. 8 overall pick by the Indians in the 1990 MLB draft.
More from '93: Some headlines from the Feb. 8, 1993 edition of Time magazine:
"Cyberpunk: With virtual sex, smart drugs and synthetic rock n' roll, a new $ counterculture is surfing on the dark edges of the computer age."
"Hillary Clinton must juggle the demands of her new assignment with the traditions of being First Lady."
"Can cellular phones cause brain cancer? There's scant evidence but lots of fear."
Whoa. Cellular phones were around in 1993. I was still in college and feel like I was still rocking the pager back then. Hmmm. On second thought, I might not have gotten a pager into the mid 90's.
ReplyDeleteJust seeing the term "cyberpunk" makes me feel old.
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