Wednesday, January 1, 2025

1970 Topps Booklets: The Tommy Harper Story

 A Seattle Pilots card!

Looks like Harper wore regular football gear to play football, but played basketball in his baseball uniform.
He ran track in his baseball uniform, too.
The song is from the 1968-70 TV show Here Come the Brides, based in Seattle. In 1969 Perry Como's version of the song hit #2 on the Easy Listening chart. Also, who is the other person in the last panel? No other Pilot stole more than 19 bases. Perhaps it's #2 in the AL Bert Campaneris? It does appear to be an instance of the caption differing from what the artwork was originally intended for.

 

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2 comments:

  1. MattJanuary 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM

    He held the Red Sox stolen base record for a long time until Jacoby Ellsbury came around...

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  2. FujiJanuary 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM

    That's pretty cool that the artist incorporated a popular song from the time period into the comic.

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