Let's have some fun today and revisit my ten-year-old 1972 "Then and Now" card for Jim "Mudcat" Grant, one of Baseball's "Black Aces":
Though he did have a card in the 1972 Topps set, he was already
done with his Major League days, finishing up with the Oakland A's at
the end of the 1971 season after starting it with the Pittsburgh
Pirates.
Between 1958 and 1966 he was primarily a starter, putting in his
finest big league season in 1965 while a member of the American League
champion Minnesota Twins, going 21-7 with a 3.30 earned run average, six
shutouts and 142 strikeouts over 270.1 innings
and 41 games, 39 of which were starts.
By the time he retired, Grant posted a 145-119 record with a 3.63
ERA, 18 shutouts and 54 saves over 571 games and 2442 innings playing
for the Indians, Twins, Dodgers, Expos, Cardinals, A's and Pirates.
