Saturday, October 24, 2020

GIMMIE A DO-OVER: 1972 JIM BEAUCHAMP

Came across a nice image of Jim Beauchamp in a St. Louis Cardinals uniform and thought it’d make a nice “do-over” for his airbrushed 1972 card for the heck of it, so here goes:


Beauchamp played the 1971 season with St. Louis, hitting .235 over 77 games, but found himself part of a multi-player trade in October to the New York Mets.
This was early enough for Topps to get some artistic work done on his 1972 card, as seen here:

Not the worst thing in the world but certainly “off”.
Nevertheless, Beauchamp would go on to play what turned out to be the final two years of his Big League career in Queens, playing in 58 and 50 games respectively.
He finished his 10-year career with a .231 batting average, with 153 hits over 661 at-bats, appearing in 393 games between 1963 and 1973 playing for Houston, St. Louis, New York, Cincinnati and Atlanta.