How fitting that the towering player smack in the middle of the Junior Circuit’s squad is the Senators’ slugging star Frank Howard, aka “Hondo”, surrounded by guys like Rico Petrocelli, Sal Bando, Bill Freehan, Boog Powell, Frank Robinson, Reggie Jackson and Rod Carew.
I’ll take that line-up any day of the week!
Completing the line-up was starter Mel Stottlemyre of the New York Yankees, though sadly for them they would fall to the National League 9-3 thanks in large part to Willie McCovey’s two home runs and Johnny Bench adding one of his own, accounting for five RBIs between them.
Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy these “specials”, as I love creating them, wishing Topps did the same through the 1970’s giving their sets a little extra character.
