I'm going to finish this set soon. I've got to find a way to get all of the pictures into these posts. Soon.
#06 - Jim Palmer
Here's another Arizona State alum. He won 20 games for the fourth consecutive season. It was his sixth straight year with an ERA of less than 3.00.
The experts wrote him off after shoulder injuries in 1968. He's won 99 games in the five years after missing the entire 1968 season.
He won the 1973 Cy Young Award.
Not on the card - he won the Cy Young Award in 1975 and 1976 too.
#05 - Carlton Fisk
His batting average dropped from his rookie season, but he's one of the best catchers in the game. The text mentions that he led the team with 27 homers, but the stats correctly show him with 26. Was this corrected?
He fulfilled his military obligation before joining the minor league affiliate of the Red Sox.
He had the most steals of any AL catcher - seven.
Not on the card - he had 128 career steals including 17 in a season twice.
#04 - Bert Campaneris
He always seemed small on the field when I watched on television, but at 5-10 and 155 pounds he wasn't much different from me in the late 1970s.
Kellogg's says that the stats don't tell the story because Campy does it all.
Not on the card - I was surprised to see that he received MVP votes in eight different seasons from 1965 to 1975.
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