For fun today, revisiting a card I created 10 years
ago for the blog,a 1975 "traded" card for the "Wampum Walloper" Dick
Allen, who found himself back where it all began, the Philadelphia
Phillies:
Really fun to play around with the
1975 template and create a landscape-oriented design, with that
ever-so-beautiful All-Star designation.
Here's the original write-up for that post, which seems like a lifetime ago:
"Allen had quite an adventurous off-season between the 1974 and 1975
seasons, getting traded by the Chicago White Sox to the Atlanta Braves
on December 3, 1974, only to THEN get swapped on May 7, 1975 by the
Braves to his original Major League team, the
Phillies.
While his original 1975 Topps card is a classic in my eyes, it does
still have him on the "wrong" team. That is, NOT on the team he played
with in '75.
He was coming off of a solid 1974 season which saw him lead the
American League in homers (32) and slugging (.563) while batting .301
with 88 runs batted in and 84 runs scored.
But Allen pretty much wore out his welcome on the South Side of Chicago, leading to his departure.
After a couple of "so-so" seasons in Philadelphia, Allen wrapped up
his career in 1977 after appearing in 54 games for the Oakland A's.
There are some guys I'll find ANY reason to design a card for, and Allen is definitely one of them!
Hope to have more here in the future…"