Today on
the blog we fix another 1980's Topps All-Star snub, this time a 1984
card for Manny Trillo of the Cleveland Indians, the starter at second
base for the American league in the 1983 game:
Topps
decided to give the All-Star card to Lou Whitaker of the Detroit
Tigers, a practice that I came to hate as a kid collecting back then.
Why stray from the voted players?
Anyway,
Trillo would find himself shipped off to the Montreal Expos after the
All-Star game, before ending up with the San Francisco Giants for the
1984 season.
He’d put together an excellent career
that saw him win a World Championship with the Philadelphia Phillies in
1980, win three Gold Gloves between 1979 and 1983 and get tabbed for
four All-Star games.
By the time he retired after the 1989 season he finished up with 1562 hits over 5950 at-bats, good for a .263 average, with 598 runs scored and 571 runs batted in.
By the time he retired after the 1989 season he finished up with 1562 hits over 5950 at-bats, good for a .263 average, with 598 runs scored and 571 runs batted in.
