Looking
at the 1976 airbrush job done for former “slugger” Bobby Darwin of the
Milwaukee Brewers for his 1976 card, though again I wonder why Topps
didn’t have an image of him in the real thing:
It’s strange that Topps had to airbrush him into a Milwaukee uni since
he played the last half of the 1975 season with them, appearing in 55
games after coming over from the Minnesota Twins in a trade on June 14th
for Johnny Briggs.
Nevertheless, he’d find himself on the move once again during the 1976
season, this time heading East to the Boston Red Sox after opening the
year with 25 games with the Brewers, ending up appearing in 43 games
with the Red Sox before finishing up his nine-year career with yet
another split season between Boston and the Chicago Cubs in 1977.
He did put together three straight decent years while with Minnesota
between 1972 and 1974, averaging just about 20 homers and 90 runs batted
in, though leading the league in strikeouts each season.
Overall, he finished with a .251 career average, hitting 83 homers and
driving in 328 runs while collecting 559 hits in 2224 at-bats in 646
games between 1962 and 1977.