On the blog today, an OPC "variation" of a different sort, a
spotlight on Doug Howard's 1977 OPC card, even though he never got a
Topps card that year:
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| OPC card |
Actually he never got a
Topps card at all for his brief career, something I remedied a FEW times
on the blog over the years, including my own 1977 Indians Topps
version, seen here originally posted 10 years ago:
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| WTHBALLS creation |
Funny enough he never ended up playing a game for the Blue Jays on the Major
League level, so I went and designed a card with him shown as a
Cleveland Indian, for whom he suited up in 1976.
He appeared in 39 games for the Tribe, and batted .211 with 19 hits in 99 official at-bats.
It was the most time he saw in any of his five seasons in the big league, and his only season as an Indian.
Turns out it was the last Major League action he'd see in his five-year career.
He came up with the California Angels in 1972 and played for them
three years before moving on to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1975, but he
never did appear in a Topps set, even with his 97 career games and 233
at-bats.
Would have been a nice hole filled in as far as the more obscure
players from the decade, especially when you think of some guys that DID
get a card in the 1977 set who saw far less action in '76 like Jim
Holt, Larry Cox or Jack Kucek.
