I just realized recently that for some reason I stopped creating any more "Greatest Moments" cards, my all-time favorite Topps oddball set, so let's get it started again with one for the great Tom Seaver:
Here
we celebrate his 1969 campaign that saw him take home the first of his
three (shoulda been four) Cy Young Awards while leading the New York
Mets to a shocking World Championship over the heavily favored Baltimore
Orioles.
In
that Cy Young campaign all he did was go 25-7, with a 2.21 ERA, five
shutouts and 208 strikeouts over 273.1 innings of work, completing 18 of
35 starts at the age of 24.
He was in prime form in the mid-70’s, putting together nine straight 200
strikeouts seasons while getting tabbed to ten all-star teams in his
first eleven seasons.
Seaver was a star baseball player before he was even a pro,
commanding HUGE attention during his college days, eventually leading to
some controversy when he originally signed with the Braves in 1966,
only to have the signing voided, allowing the New York Mets to make
arguably the best pick in franchise history in the 1966 amateur draft.
Talk about a colossal "what if" had the Braves been able to keep that signing!
