Sunday, December 8, 2019

AIRBRUSHING THROUGH THE 1970s- 1973 LARRY STAHL

Taking a closer look at another airbrushing gem from the wild-70’s today, this one the 1973 card for former outfielder Larry Stahl, who found great fortune when he went from the last-place San Diego Padres to the Cincinnati Reds:


A nice paint-job for the cap and some adequate cropping of the image, and just like that we have his 1973 card ready to be ripped out of packs.
For Stahl, he’d end up playing that one year with the Reds and call it a career, putting in 10 seasons under the Major League sun playing for the Kansas City Athletics, New York Mets, Padres and Reds between 1964 and 1973.
Never a full-time player, the most action he ever saw in any season was back in 1966 when he appeared in 119 games for the Athletics, followed by 144 games for the Padres in 1971.
Over the course of that career he hit .232 with exactly 400 hits through 1721 at-bats in 730 games, with 167 runs scored and 163 RBIs with 36 homers.