Back for three more cards from 1975. Hardly any of mine have nice bright colors.
#45 - Gaylord Perry
He's still one of baseball's best pitchers even at the ripe old age of 36.
Not on the card - he played until he was 45 years old, winning 116 more games.
His career ERA is among the lowest for pitchers with at least 3,000 innings. His ERA was 2.85 after the 1974 season.
Not on the card - he ended up pitching 5,350 innings with an ERA of 3.11. He stands sixth all time in innings pitched.
#44 - Catfish Hunter
I've seen lots of this card with nice coloring. It looks great when you see a nice one of these.
The 1974 AL ERA leader and winner of 20 games for the fourth straight season, Hunter won the Cy Young Award.
Not on the card - he had been second and fourth in the Cy Young voting during the previous two seasons.
He is one of the best control pitchers in baseball.
Not on the card - he is 50th for career walks plus hits per nine innings.
Original version of this card - the A's won their third straight World Series title.
Second version of this card - "The Yankees hooked Hunter with a reported record-breaking multi-million dollar five-year package after he was declared a free agent."
How did they manage to get three hyphenated words into one sentence? Is that a record?
Not on the card - he signed with the Yankees on 12-31-74 so this information is fairly new and there was no daily cable news to report salaries immediately.
#43 - Johnny Grubb
Hobbies - Golf, Guitar, Collecting Baseball Cards. That's great to see.
Not on the card - he played until 1987 so there were certainly plenty of chances for him to get lots of his 1980s cards.
Lots of text on this card because he's only had three seasons in the majors up to this point. The paragraph even calls him the "bespectacled outfielder". Did kids know what that meant in 1975? How about today?
A natural right-handed hitter, he learned to switch-hit to mimic his idol, Mickey Mantle. Darn, only two hyphens. The next sentence reminds the 10-year-old kids reading this card that Grubb doesn't have Mantle's power.
Not on the card - Mantle hit 536 homers in 2,401 games and Grubb hit 99 in 1,424 games.
There's a lot more. "John, who collects baseball cards such as this one, ...".
Not on the card - Now they've given kids two chances to find that information on the back of the card. That's information that kids of 1975 want to know. Not that he made the All-Tournament team in 1970 somewhere.
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