Tuesday, September 23, 2025

1990 Topps Big Deep Dive: Fred McGriff

Pretty standard spring training photos of McGriff.

"Hey! This looks like a fun job!"

It was a job for McGriff, who as a teenager worked as a hot dog and soda vendor at Al Lopez Field. He would also collect used bats and other discarded equipment from the Reds. As a teenager in Tampa, McGriff was cut from the baseball team his sophomore year, but came back the next season to make the team. He put himself on scouts' radar with a moonshot home run off of highly heralded pitching prospect Dwight Gooden.

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  1. It's so cool to hear stories of two baseball stars (or any other sport) facing off against each other before their professional years.

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