Good day all!
On
the blog today, we have a fun card I created for my latest
WTHBALLS release, a reprint of the never-released 1980 Pepsi All-Stars
baseball set, with a bonus Rickey Henderson you see here:
I thought it'd be fun to add in one special card to the 22-card reprint set, and the Rickey rookie card was a natural choice.
Imagine if this was part of the very valuable test set!?
In his
first taste of the Majors, Rickey appeared in 89 games with the Oakland
A's in 1979, hitting .274 with 96 hits in 351 at-bats, stealing 33 bases
and scoring 49 runs.
Coming into 1979 Henderson was on fire in 1977 and 1978 playing for Modesto and Jersey City in the Minors.
In '77 with Modesto, all he did was hit .345 with 120 runs scored
and 95 stolen bases to go along with a sick .465 on-base-percentage.
The following year, getting promoted to Double-A ball, Henderson
kept on hitting, this time to the tune of .310 with 81 runs scored and
81 steals.
So at the dawn of the 1979 season Henderson was ready to
just about take over the game, straight to the Hall of Fame some 25
years later.Just a glimpse of the dynamic player that was about to take over the baseball world over the next quarter century!
Greatest lead-off man the game has ever seen!
