Cake or gum? 1976 Randy Jones

Last time gum trounced cake, 10-2. Will this be closer?

Two very different photos this time. The hostess card has Randy in front of the visitors dugout at Shea Stadium, the site of so many Topps photos over the years. There are so many visible details, from the view of the stadium and the sky beyond in the background, players on the field, fans in the stands, and in the foreground some Padres in the dugout and a ball bag on the steps. Topps's photo, meanwhile, has a close-up of Jones at home at Jack Murphy Stadium, with some pretty good stadium detail on this one too.

Randy Jones won 100 games in his ten-year major league career. A two-time All-Star and twenty-game winner, he was the NL Cy Young Award Winner in 1976, going 22-14 with a 2.74 ERA and 25 complete games for the Padres. After his career he owned a restaurant and had a barbecue sauce business. He is now the chairman of the Randy Jones Foundation, which provides opportunities and resources for military families. He shared his thoughts on baseball cards with this blog in 2014.