On the blog today we go and give San Francisco Giants shortstop Chris Speier a blazing "All-Star" banner on his 1974 base card, as part of my on-going "On-Card All-Star" thread:
Speier
really started his career in fine form, making the All-Star team three
of his first four seasons, even getting some MVP consideration in 1972
after hitting 15 homers with 72 runs batted in with 151 hits at the age
of 22.
Though he couldn't keep up the production of his early
years in the league, he did eventually put in 19 seasons in the Big
Leagues, retiring after the 1989 season with 1759 hits, a .246 batting
average and 770 runs scored.
Will always remember that he was a
staple of my childhood baseball card packs growing up in the
late-70's/early-80's, pulling what seemed to be DOZENS of Chris Speier
cards out of packs in 1981 when he was a member of the Montreal Expos.
