Showing posts with label Hal King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hal King. Show all posts

Friday, March 15, 2019

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1975 HAL KING

Let’s cap-off former catcher Hal King’s seven-year career with a 1975 “not so missing” card after he played the last of his MLB games while with the Cincinnati Reds:


King, who was in his second year with the Reds after coming over from the Texas Rangers, appeared in 20 games for Cincinnati, hitting .176 with three hits in 17 at-bats.
Aside from spending all of the 1969 season in the Minors, King was a catcher off-the-bench his whole career between 1967 and 1974, playing for the Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves, Rangers and Reds.
His final numbers: a .214 batting average with 146 hits in 683 at-bats with 67 runs scored and 82 runs batted in over 322 career games.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

WHEN AIRBRUSHING GOES TERRIBLY WRONG"- PART IV

This airbrushing job on Topps' part is just awesome! Here we have a 1972 #598 Hal King.
This reminds me of one of those kids' activity books where they give you a dotted outline to "color-in", with the further instruction to "stay withing the lines".
Now, I get the fact that the Texas Rangers were a new team, and perhaps Topps didn't have their official logo yet to airbrush in. But was this the best way to address the issue?
I would sooner have just airbrushed out the Braves logo and left it at that. This "solid" paint-job, without ANY attempt at shading or dimension gives the card an instantly classic appearance!
Always loved this card!

As-is release by Topps

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