Thought it'd be fun to revisit a blog post from just under 10 years ago, my "fantasy" 1977 card for all-timer Eddie Murray, one of the game's greatest switch-hitters in it's long history:
Here's the original write-up I did way back when:
"Now, even though Eddie Murray's 1978 rookie card is one of my
favorite cards to this day, I always felt that since the guy was the
1977 American League rookie of the year, it would have been nice to have
a card for him for that season.
This doesn't really fit into either a "dedicated rookie card" or a
"missing" card, but I still wanted to design one for the future Hall of
Famer since he was one of my favorite players growing up.
Odds are Murray probably would have been included on one of those awful
multi-player rookie cards like Andre Dawson or Dale Murphy, but since we
know how much I am NOT a fan of those cards, I went with a dedicated
card for him here.
I won't get into Murray too much here, since I covered that when I
profiled his rookie card, but wow, what an understated superstar he was.
While the Schmidts, Ripkens, Murphy's, etc were racking up awards and
acknowledgment, all Murray did was quietly rack up 3000+ hits, 500+ home
runs, 1900+ runs batted in and more.
The man was awesome, simply put."
