The next OPC image
variation we spotlight here on the blog is Del Unser’s 1977 card, which
as all other Montreal Expos players, had OPC going the extra mile for
their Canadian players with a different image
than Topps’ offering:
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| OPC Version |
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| Topps Version |
Nothing terribly earth-shattering here, just a different posed image that some may consider clearer/cleaner.
Unser put in 15
years in the Majors, coming up with the Washington Senators in 1968 and
finishing up with a four-year run with the Philadelphia Phillies in
1982, giving him his one taste of a World Championship
in 1980.
In between he also
played for the Cleveland Indians in 1972, a first term with the Phillies
in 1973/1974, the New York Mets in 1975/1976 and Expos 1976/1978.
All told, he
finished with a .258 batting average, with 1344 hits over 1799 games,
with 87 homers and 481 runs batted in, with the highlight (besides the
championship) would have to be his record setting three
consecutive pinch-hit home runs in July of 1979, for which I always
remember his “Record Breaker” 1980 Topps card as a kid.