Interesting Read: The 40 Most Undeserving MLB SLU Figures

mrwhitesox30 · Sep 6, 2009

The 40 Most Undeserving MLB Starting Lineup Figures Ever

If you ever collected SLU's, or just like to read about guys who never were, it's an interesting read for sure.

kdailey4315 · Sep 6, 2009

What's funny about SLU now is that the scurbs that knowbody wanted when we were kdis are worth the most money. I have a bunch of SLU. I have all of Larry Birds and the original Dream Team.

smapdi · Sep 7, 2009

Eh, that's amusing, but they're mostly taken out of context. You can't just make the HOFers every year, or it'd get really boring. The lead time to produce SLUs was at least 6 months, so basically you'd have to finalize the next year's lineup before the current season was done. If someone's the ROY in 1989, why is it bad to make a 1990 figure of him? Obviously, 20 years later one can wonder why a baseball card was made of some of these guys, let alone a figure. Plus, the game has changed in some respects. In the 80s, a shortstop hitting more than 10 homers a year was still out of character, so that's no reason to denigrate them. There are some real stinkers in there, though, I have to admit. Pete Stanicek? Oy.

The domain name is pretty funny, though.

JackLondon · Sep 7, 2009

Fun to read that and see the old figures! Sad to see Marc Newfield on the list as he was a hometown guy that I still collect.

braves2008champs · Sep 7, 2009

I have a Shane Mack packed away at my parents. Thought he would've made the list :lol:

On a side note, I remember dropping so much money as a kid on these guys. I would save up to buy older Cal Ripkens that the store had - I was also big into the Headliners when they started. Probably have 2 tubs full of this stuff...

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