“Boomer’ was on his way back to Boston after spending the past five seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers, bringing his thunderous bat to Fenway.
Of course, that meant that the people at Hostess had to get it “right” for their upcoming set, so off we went yet again to “airbrush” and the neon goodness you see here.
What a wild color job for the helmet! I love it!
Always cool to see how they would do ONLY the amount of painting needed to get on the card, with odd finishing points leaving the original showing underneath.
I guess the OCD designer in me would just finish the whole thing!
Scott would not disappoint the fine folks of Boston, clubbing 33 homers along with 95 runs batted in for the powerful Red Sox team that also had Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Yaz and company.
He’d retire after the 1979 season, finishing up with 271 homers and 1051 RBIs, with a .268 batting average and just under 2000 hits (1992).