Monday, January 31, 2022

Hollywood bit players on baseball cards: Part 14

Today's actor had only one major screen credit, receiving fifth billing in football star Jim Brown's action film, Black Gunn. He plays a character named Sam Green. Colorful film title, colorful character name. The actor's name was a colorful one too. Recognize him (on the left)?

It's former Oakland A's star Vida Blue! Coming off of his breakout MVP season in 1971, Blue also appeared in a couple of episodes of Laugh In that year, but did not act beyond that. Here are his earliest and last Topps cards.


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4 comments:

  1. JafroniusJanuary 31, 2022 at 3:05 PM

    Cool, didn't know he tried acting out!

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  2. FujiJanuary 31, 2022 at 8:57 PM

    Interesting piece of Vida Blue trivia.

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  3. bbcardzFebruary 1, 2022 at 1:04 AM

    Great research. I also had no idea about Vida Blue doing any acting.

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  4. JonFebruary 1, 2022 at 7:22 PM

    I've only seen this once, a LONG time ago, long before I knew who Vida was, so this was new to me as well.

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