Thursday, January 30, 2025

Cake or gum? 1976 Jimmy Wynn

Last time it was an easy win for gum, 7-3. Will it triumph again here?

This is a fascinating one. It looks like both companies used photos from the same spring training photo session with Wynn as a Dodger. It looks like they both airbrushed a Braves hat over his Dodgers cap. It then looks like Hostess also painted his white jersey blue.

Wynn was known as the "Toy Cannon" because he was a smaller guy with a lot of power. His stats look like a 2020's player: low batting average but high HR, BB and K totals. He did have surprising speed for a guy known as a slugger. Overall in 15 years for the Astros, Dodgers, Braves, Yankees and Brewers, Wynn hit .250 with 291 HR, 964 RBI and 225 SB. He walked 1,224 times (leading the NL twice) and struck out 1,427 times (leading the NL once). After his career he was an Astros announcer. He died in 2020.


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