It looks like there are only two players in the regular Kellogg's sets from 1970 to 1983 that had a card after their career ended.
1971 Tony Horton. Stress ended his career before he turned 26. He debuted at age 19.
Horton is not the father of P90X star Tony Horton. Mr. Push-up talked about his father throwing a no-hitter in one of the videos. I will need to find out more about that.
From 1964 - 1970 Horton hit 76 homers and drove in 297 runs while hitting .268.
1981 J.R. Richard. J.R. had a stroke in 1980 before a game. That ended his career.
Mr. Richard was a star pitcher at the time of his stroke. He played from 1971 - 1980 and he was only 30 when his career ended.
His career record was 107-71 for the Astros. In his last four complete seasons he won 20,18,18 and 18 games. When the stroke occurred he was 10-4 for the Astros. He struck out over 300 batters in his final two complete seasons, leading the league both times.
He finished in the top seven of the Cy Young voting three times.
Richard had a Topps card that year, too.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not mistaken Football may have had a few. 1971 set had the EXTREMELY tough "common" #1 card of Tom Barrington who retired the year before. Hewritt Dixon of the Raiders too. I think Bob Grant may have been out too. THAT was his ONLY sports card.
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