Sunday, October 20, 2024

1970 Topps Booklets Rusty Staub

 Rusty Staub.

 
Some minor league highlights.

 

 In the majors with Houston. Topps was probably still sensitive about the Colt Manufacturing litigation so they are never called the Colts or Colt .45s, just Houston, and the artist even drew a made-up H uniform.

Expos was fine to say, though. Staub was known as Rusty, and then in Montreal as Le Grand Orange, due to his red hair. Unfortunately, the cartoonist drew him as a blond.



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2 comments:

  1. FujiOctober 21, 2024 at 10:13 PM

    Just looked up his career stats and was very impressed by his numbers. As a guy who enjoys collecting Expos, I was surprised to see he was a 3x MLB All-Star during his 3 seasons in Montreal. It's just a shame that he doesn't have a ton of cards featuring him with the Expos for fans to collect.

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  2. JonOctober 24, 2024 at 8:12 AM

    Him not having the right colored hair is one of those things bug me immensely if I were collecting these.

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