Thought we'd revisit a blog post from almost ten years ago today, my 1974 "Then and Now" card for the great Juan Marichal, who had quite the magnificent Big League career:
Here's the original write-up from July of 2014 as it appeared.
This was the third such "Then and Now" card I created for the blog at the time:
"Following the basic idea of my previous subjects: Bob Gibson and
Hank Aaron, this card features Marichal in the last Topps set he
actually appeared on (1974), with a new card concept showing him at the
end of his career, along with his Topps rookie card,
in this case his 1961 debut.
No need getting into his career accomplishments here since it was
well documented already, but the "Dominican Dandy" would eventually find
himself enshrined in the baseball Hall of Fame in 1983, capping off a
stellar career which saw him post a 243-142
record with a 2.89 earned run average, 2303 strikeouts and 52 shutouts, 10 of which came in 1965 alone.
Next up on this thread…well let's keep that a secret for now.
You'll just have to keep an eye out for it…"