A RE-DO OF ONE OF MY OWN: 1975 ORLANDO CEPEDA CAREER-CAPPER

Been meaning to re-do this card for a long while, my 1975 “Career-Capper” for Hall of Fame slugger Orlando Cepeda, who finished up his stellar career with the Kansas City Royals in 1974:

Re-done/ 2018

For those who never knew, my original mock up of the card was actually a Photoshop job way back when with a KC cap worked onto Cepeda’s image.
Not the worst job in the world, but it did always irk me that I released that version years ago on the blog.
I did finally find an excellent image of Cepeda during his days in KC, so here we go with the much better version you see above.
Here’s the original “write-up” I had posted with the first version back in October, 2013:

“Today I want to cap off the career of Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, the "Baby Bull".
His last "official" card has him in a Boston Red Sox uniform in the 1974 set (#83). However by the time the season opened up Cepeda was released and didn't sign with another team until August, when he hooked up with Kansas City.

Original from 2013

He only appeared in 33 games for the Royals, hitting .215 with a homer and 18 runs batted in before finally retiring for good. So I went and designed a "final" card for him in a Royals uniform, "photoshopped" from a shot of him in '73 with Boston.
Would have been nice to have a card for Cepeda in that awesome 1975 set (I'm a sucker for the 1975 & 76 sets)!
Anyway, hope you enjoy it.
While Cepeda's career was productive enough to get into Cooperstown, it's well known that if not for his bad knees, his final statistics could have been mind blowing.
Nevertheless, by the time he retired, he posted final numbers of: 379 homers, 1365 runs batted in, 2351 hits and a .297 average, with a Rookie of the Year (1958) and M.V.P. award (1967) thrown in.
It took a little while, but he was finally inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999 after being selected by the Veteran's Committee.
What a power trio San Francisco had in Cepeda, Willie Mays and Willie McCovey! Power to the ultimate degree!”