Here's the next card in my "1976 Project" that I have been working on for one of this blogs readers.
It is a design for Dick Sharon of the San Diego Padres, take a look:
After appearing the previous two years in Topps sets as a Detroit
Tiger, Sharon was left out of the 1976 set, even though he played in 91
games for the Padres, good for 191 plate appearances.
His numbers for the year: a .194 batting average, with 31 hits in 160 at-bats.
Among his hits were seven doubles and four homers to go along with 14 runs scored and 20 runs batted in.
As it turned out it would be the final year of Sharon's brief
three-year career, and he finished up with a lifetime .218 batting
average with 13 homers and 102 hits over 242 games.
But his story doesn't end there!
I came across this article on Sharon as I was looking over his career for this post.
Seems he was one of those characters that graced the game in the
1970's, and the article is an entertaining read for those interested:
He even commented on the article! (scroll down to the bottom of the article for his post).
You have to love a guy like this!
