#57 - Don Sutton
I love these cracked cards, unless I paid for them in EX-MT condition.
They weren't able to add a lot of text about Sutton because he had stats from 1966 to 1977. They did have room for at least another line of text.
I never thought of him as a star pitcher in the 1970s. In his first six seasons he didn't have a winning record. In only two of those seasons did the Dodgers have a losing record.
Not on the card - Sutton pitched until 1988 and only won 20+ games in 1976. Are there other HOF starting pitchers who've only one 20 games once? Babe Ruth did this twice.
#56 - Mike Hargrove
Hargrove had a great start during his first four years. At this point he had a .303 career average.
Kellogg's says that he "refused" a basketball scholarship offer to pursue baseball. Northwestern Oklahoma State College was probably NAIA-affiliated in 1972, so they could give scholarships. Now it looks like they compete in NCAA-D-III. So, it's not like North Carolina or Duke was looking for the six-foot leftie.
He was the AL Rookie of the Year in 1974.
#55 - Ken Singleton
Singleton, at 6-4 has a better basketball height than Hargrove. He is likened to Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver - all of whom are mentioned as having great success after leaving the Mets. They failed to mentioned that Seaver was already a star with the Mets.
Oddly for the 1970s, Singleton has already been traded twice. He was involved with trades for Rusty Staub and Dave McNally. The McNally trade was one of the factors in the path to baseball free agency. To find out more about this visit your local library.
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