#34 Jim Fregosi
Jim Fregosi is listed as having been on Los Angeles and California. As a young kid I didn't realize that those were the same teams. I knew him as a 1970s player. I was surprised to see on baseball-reference.com that he had MVP votes every year from 1963 - 1970. He had none from 1971 to 1978 and he never played more than 107 games in any of those seasons.
To the card back - nothing exciting on there. He was a five-time all-star in the 1960s.
Not on the card - he was also an all-star in 1970.
#34 Ray Culp
I don't remember Ray Culp much as a player since he retired in 1973. Forget about that. I just found out that we might have a winner in the Hobby category. He actually admitted to someone that his hobby is Racing Pigeons. I will ignore his all-star appearances in both leagues and focus on that.
Not on the card - it looks like pigeon racing had a long history in the Culp family. He might still be involved today but I didn't find anything. I did find lots of details on the racing and selling of these birds.
#34 Tim McCarver
Not on the card - they usually like to mention all-star game appearances and McCarver played in two of those games. His Cardinal teams won two of those three World Series titles.
I thought it looked odd so I double checked. Mccarver played 8 games for the Cards in 59. I wonder why they didn't put those stats in .
ReplyDeleteNice catch. I also didn't notice that he was in the minors for all of 1962. I will need to see if they did that with other players who played before 1960. Maybe they only skipped partial seasons for these guys?
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