Time
to go and give former Big League infielder Rick Auerbach a do-over for
his 1974 Topps card, replacing the airbrushed beauty with one showing
him suited up with the team he played for in 1973, the Milwaukee
Brewers:
For those that need a refresher on the original, as issued by Topps, here you go:
Now
get this: funny enough Auerbach was originally traded by the Brewers to
the Dodgers in April of 1973, only to be purchased by the Brewers in
September later that year.
If
that wasn't enough, he was then purchased BACK by the Dodgers from the
Brewers in October , leading to the airbrush job Topps originally had
out there in packs in 1974.
Auerbach
appeared in only six games during the 1973 season, all with Milwaukee,
and would never really get any full-time work over his Major League
career.
The
only year he was a full-time player was 1972 with Milwaukee, when he
played in 153 games, collecting 121 hits over 554 at-bats, for a .218
batting average, with 24 stolen bases and 50 runs scored, all
career-bests.
He would go on to play through the 1981 season, the last with the
Seattle Mariners, and end up with a .220 career average with 309 hits
and 167 runs scored over 624 games and 1407 at-bats in eleven years at the “big show”.
