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the blog today, we revisit a 10-year-old blog post featuring a fantasy
multi-player 1974 rookie card that would have been quite the doozy had
it really been out there:
Not a bad group of young ballplayers right here!
Here's the original write-up for it:
"Now here's a card that would have been nice to pull out of a pack! (Even
though I am admittedly NOT a fan of the "multi-player" rookie cards).
Like I previously did with the 1978 dream rookie card with Ozzie
Smith, Paul Molitor, Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell, I couldn't resist
designing a 1974 "Rookie Infielders" card with Robin Yount and George
Brett.
Now it wasn't beyond the realm of possibility to have the two
future Hall of Famers appear on one of those multi-player rookie cards
in the '74 set.
But I DO understand why Topps didn't give them a look at the time.
I took an already existing card (#604) and replaced Terry Hughes and John Knox (sorry guys!) with Brett and Yount.
Teamed up with two other future solid major leaguers in Andre
Thornton and Frank White, and this card would have been a killer at the
card shows of the late 1980's when the rookie-card explosion happened.
Thankfully, because of the wonderful world of Photoshop, we can all go ahead and "fix" these so many years later."
