Today
we take a look at the airbrushing on the 1975 Tom Buskey card, who went
from the New York Yankees to the Cleveland Indians during the 1974
season as part of the trade that brought Chris Chambliss and Dick Tidrow
to the Bronx:
What makes this so interesting is that Buskey went on to appear in 51
games for the Indians in 1974, yet Topps couldn’t seem to get an image
of him in a Cleveland uni for the 1975 set?!
Really odd that Chambliss and Tidrow are photographed in their proper uniforms, yet Buskey was airbrushed into Indians garb.
Buskey would go on to appear in 258 games during his eight-year Major
League career, all out of the bullpen, finishing up with a record of
21-27, with an ERA at 3.66 over 479.1 innings pitched along with 34
saves.
In 1978 he went to the Toronto Blue Jays as a Free Agent, where he
played the last three seasons of his career, retiring after 1980.