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Sunny Jim Bottomley


As you can see from the cards, Jim Bottomley's nickname "Sunny Jim" is quite appropriate as he seems to be smiling all the time. Bottomley is in both the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame, so I enjoy really finding cards of him.

Bottomley won the NL MVP award in 1928 with 20 triples, 31 home runs, 136 RBIs, and a .325/.402/.628 slash line. He finished his 16-year career with a .310/.369/.500 slash line.

2005 National Baseball Hall of Fame Postcard.

Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame.

In 1922, Bottomley batted .348 with 14 home runs, 15 triples, and a .567 slugging percentage for the Syracuse Chiefs.

2000 Grandstand, Card #NNO.

1992 Reprint of 1927 Middy Bread Die Cuts, Card #NNO.

Dover Reprint of 1933 Goudy, Card #44.

Sunny Jim spent most of his 16 big league seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, but he also spent three seasons with the Cincinnati Reds.
 
Reprint of 1934 - 1936 National Chicle Diamond Stars (R318), Card #59.

1961 Fleer, Card #9.

1979 TCMA Galasso, Card #67.

1980-87 SSPC HOF, Card #142.

1992 Cramer, Card #64 of 90 (Series 3).

1991 The Sporting News Conlon Collection, Card #302.

1991 The Sporting News Conlon Collection, Card #22.

1992 The Sporting News Conlon Collection, Card #645.

1992 The Sporting News Conlon Collection, Card #440.

2013 Panini Cooperstown, Card #29.

My favorite card from this collection: I like the 2000 Grandstand card as it recognizes Bottomley as a Syracuse Baseball Wall of Famer, but I also love the 1961 Fleer cards.

What's yours?

Thanks for visiting.

Stay well,

CinciCuse Bill
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