On the blog today, a special edition of my on-going "On-Card All-Star" cards, where I slap a bold and beautiful "All-Star" banner across a players' base Topps card, which was always my favorite way to go instead of a separate All-Star sub Set.
In
this case, I had to create a "correct" card for the National League's
1973 All-Star game starter, Rick Wise, who was sent packing to the
Boston Red Sox in the off-season, leading to Topps airbrushing him into a
BoSox uni for their 1974 offering:
Makes for a very nice unique addition to all our 1974 sets!
It's easy to forget that the guy put together a really solid Major
League career, finishing with a 188-181 record to go along with a 3.69
earned run average, 30 shutouts and 1647 strikeouts over 506 games (455
starts) between 1964 and 1982.
Yes he'll always be remembered for being the "wrong" side of the Steve Carlton trade (ironically enough during the off-season after his no-hit year), but if not for an injury-plagued season in 1974 while with the Red Sox, he could have been a 200-game winner.
Go figure...
Yes he'll always be remembered for being the "wrong" side of the Steve Carlton trade (ironically enough during the off-season after his no-hit year), but if not for an injury-plagued season in 1974 while with the Red Sox, he could have been a 200-game winner.
Go figure...
