Good day everybody!
Thought
it'd be fun to revisit a blog post from December of 2015, featuring my
do-over for slugger Jimmy Wynn and hgis 1976 card:
Way
back when this was part of the "1976 Project" for my man Jim, who had
me create a bunch of 1976 variations for his master set.
We
BOTH loved the idea of recreating Wynn's All-Star appearance, which was
while he was with the Los Angeles Dodgers, not the Atlanta Braves as
Topps had him issued.
Here's the original post:
"A fun card to create since he was one of the “all-stars” in my all-time
favorite set, and I was never a fan of his 1976 card showing him in an
airbrush job with the Atlanta Braves.
Wynn didn’t have nearly the success in 1975 that he had the year before, hitting 18 homers with 58 runs batted in and 80 runs scored, with a low .248 average.
Nevertheless he started his second straight all-star game for the Dodgers, his only two years in Los Angeles.
He put together a very nice 15-year career that saw him hit 291 homers, drive in 1224 runs and walk 1427 times, including a league-leading 148 in 1969 while with the Houston Astros, while finishing with a .250 batting average."
Wynn didn’t have nearly the success in 1975 that he had the year before, hitting 18 homers with 58 runs batted in and 80 runs scored, with a low .248 average.
Nevertheless he started his second straight all-star game for the Dodgers, his only two years in Los Angeles.
He put together a very nice 15-year career that saw him hit 291 homers, drive in 1224 runs and walk 1427 times, including a league-leading 148 in 1969 while with the Houston Astros, while finishing with a .250 batting average."
