One of THE players that always made me wish Topps created one last card AFTER retirement was Hank Aaron.
I mean, come on! Back in 1977 before the age of the ever-present
internet and instant gratification, who wouldn't have wanted to stare at
those insane stats after he was out of the game.
It was crazy enough to look at the back of his 1976 card and get
blown away by the numbers. But just to have the COMPLETE statistics on a
lovely slab of cardboard would have been fantastic.
And while I DO think Aaron's 1976 issue was an awesome "last card", the
1977 set was so nice in the opposite way: clean and classic, it would have been great for Topps to
throw in an Aaron card for posterity.
There's really no need to get into his whole bio here, as we all
pretty much know it by heart at this point. This was HANK AARON for
pete's sake...
Well, I went ahead and drew up an imaginary 1977 card to go along with the others
I've seen created out there on the blogosphere. Consider this a tribute to the great
"Hammerin' Hank".
By the time he left the game I was just getting into
the sport hard-core, and he was nothing short
of a "God" to my seven-year old self. He was instantly a mythical being
who I only got to see in those awesome "Oh Henry" candy-bar commercials (anyone
remember those?).
Love the way the colors all work together on this one. Enjoy…
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| One last hurrah for "Hammerin' Hank". |