Goose Joak 100th Tribute Card - Contest Results!!!

Ok, so here we go! Time to announce the contest results.

Your winners are...

Schruender
Jim

Congrats guys! You had the lowest (0.106) and highest (0.960) random numbers out of the whole group. There were 28 entries, way beyond what I expected. Just for fun, you can see the full results at the bottom of this post.

So to Schruender and Jim go the spoils:

- A grab bag of baseball cards (based on your favorite player, team, set...you decide)
- A custom tribute card of your choosing (you name the design and the player...or perhaps you'd like a tribute card of yourself or a family member!)
- A printed, signed and personalized tribute card of your choosing (whatever you vote as your favorite)

Schreunder picked the 1986 Topps Zack Greinke, and Jim picked the 2007 Turkey Red Ozzie Smith. You guys can comment or email me the rest, and I'll have those out to you pretty soon!


Zack Greinke, Royals
Tribute to 1986 Topps
by Goose Joak


Ozzie Smith, St. Louis Cardinals
Tribute to 2007 Turkey Red
by Goose Joak

A sincere thanks to everybody who entered. It was entertaining to read the comments and the reasons people liked the cards that they did. Thanks to you, I have some new ideas for cards going forward, which I can't wait to get to. Also, it was fun to be introduced to some first time commenters. I had no idea some of you were reading the blog!

So what were the most popular cards? The winner was 1992 Stadium Club Brad Hawpe with four of the 28 votes (and several runner up mentions). Four other cards received two votes. Those would be:

1976 Topps - Chipper Jones
1986 Topps - Zack Greinke
1991 Donruss Elite - Bobby Thigpen
2008 Allen & Ginter - Chris Sabo

People really seemed to like those Stadium Club cards, which was cool. Seven total votes for the 1992 Stadium Club set (25%).


Brad Hawpe, Colorado Rockies
Tribute to 1992 Stadium Club
by Goose Joak

Here are the full results. I've added links so that you can take a look at the cards other people voted on.

Since the 1992 Stadium Club Hawpe won the contest, I'll be doing a special edition of that card to commemorate it as "best of the first 100."

1992_stadiumclub_hawpe	4
1976_topps_jones	2
1986_topps_greinke	2
1991_donrusselite_thigpen	2
2008_allenginter_sabo	2
1954_topps_guerrero	1
1977_topps_bush	1
1986_topps_ludwick	1
1987_fleer_gallardo	1
1990_topps_kemp	1
1990_upperdeck_rivera	1
1992_stadiumclub_aviles	1
1992_stadiumclub_hamilton	1
1992_stadiumclub_soria	1
1993_studio_hawpe	1
1997_waveofthefuture_bruntlett	1
2007_goudey_aviles	1
2007_turkeyred_davis	1
2007_turkeyred_smith	1
2008_topps_smith	1
2009_toppsheritage_crow	1

I promised the full results of the contest...and here they are! I assigned everybody a random number using SAS.

data entries_random;
	set entries;
	rand=ranuni(0);
run;
proc sort data=entries_random; by rand; run;

That's it! Here are the results:

name	card					rand
schruender	1986_topps_greinke					0.106
zman40	2009_toppsheritage_crow					0.121
charliesaponara	1990_topps_kemp					0.152
jeremya1um	1991_donrusselite_thigpen					0.166
slette	1993_studio_hawpe					0.218
dayf	1976_topps_jones					0.278
jeffmazdra	1992_stadiumclub_hawpe					0.319
val	1997_waveofthefuture_bruntlett					0.347
alanduda	2007_goudey_aviles					0.418
drew	1990_upperdeck_rivera					0.432
don	1977_topps_bush					0.456
hookman	2008_allenginter_sabo					0.481
nightowl	1992_stadiumclub_hawpe					0.504
toddshipler	1992_stadiumclub_soria					0.581
whitesoxcards	1991_donrusselite_thigpen					0.635
captaincanuck	1976_topps_jones					0.660
matt	1987_fleer_gallardo					0.673
fuji	2008_topps_smith					0.673
thewritersjourney	2008_allenginter_sabo					0.724
williamnoetling	1954_topps_guerrero					0.742
brian	1992_stadiumclub_hamilton					0.805
rod	1992_stadiumclub_hawpe					0.815
mmosley	2007_turkeyred_davis					0.831
carlcrawfordcards	1992_stadiumclub_aviles					0.865
dan	1986_topps_greinke					0.882
bo	1986_topps_ludwick					0.905
dkwilson	1992_stadiumclub_hawpe					0.909
jim	2007_turkeyred_smith					0.960

Congrats to Schruender and Jim!