If that sentence left you scratching your head, you’re not alone. Browsing eBay tonight, I came upon an auction for 4 sets of 1987 Nashville Sounds, which was at the time the Reds’ AAA minor league team. I’ve already got one of these sets (picked it up for a quarter plus shipping several months ago), but since I only have one I wouldn’t pass up another seeing as how I specifically collect Chris Sabo and Rob Dibble cards in addition to Cincinnati Reds. So I clicked on the auction, even though it was more than I’m willing to spend. Don’t ask why, because there really is no good reason. But something about the listing caught my attention immediately.
I’ve seen enough listings on eBay to know that when you’re trying to push something that is hard to sell, you have to highlight the best parts of the product. “Chris Sabo’s first card” or “includes Rob Dibble and Norm Charlton” or even “three-time All Star Jeff Montgomery.” No, the seller decided to use the selling point that “each set contains an Orsino Hill card!”
I never knew Eddie Murphy’s sidekick played ball. I guess I’ll have to go back and look at my Nashville Sounds set again!
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Laugh, that is hilarious. Who exactly cares about Orsino Hill?
Here are his career stats:
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/H/orsino-hill.shtml
To read more about Arsenio Hall actually appearing on a baseball card, see here:
http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/01/89-gary-thurman.html
Hey Andy, I laughed so hard when I read your post…and then all the Thurman family jumping in…it was great!
I know Orsino Hill, he is my softball coach. He’s an amazing guy, and he is an amazing batting coach. His stats arn’t that great but i’ve seen him play and he’s still got it. We need to remeber that he also made it further than any of us here. So to answer Andys question; I care about Orsino Hill and if you have any of his cards i’ll take them haha.
and that picture i’m sure you know this but that isn’t him. Thats Orsino Hall.
That’s cool that he’s still in sports. I hope he’s doing well.