Let's go and give perhaps the most exciting player in baseball
during the 1970's an "In Action" card in the 1972 Topps set, Joe Morgan:
Morgan was already settled in as one of the best young players in
the game by the time 1972 rolled around, and while I was tempted to show
him as a Cincinnati Reds player, I wanted to stick to the Topps format
and have him as a Houston Astro.
As we all know, he was traded to the Reds before the 1972 season,
leading to the "Big Red Machine", two championships, and eventual Hall
of Fame induction.
What a team: Morgan, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Ken Griffey, Dave Concepcion, George Foster and Tony Perez, et al.
But I'll always wonder what kind of dynamic duo Morgan and Cesar Cedeno could have been if Morgan wasn't traded.
Could have been incredible…
