Cake or gum? 1977 Doug DeCinces

Last time there was a 4-4 tie. Will there be a winner this time?

Doug DeCinces poses before a game at Cleveland Stadium. On the Topps card you can see through the stadium to the outside, which I haven't noticed on too many cards with Cleveland Stadium. I'd see that a lot on Polo Grounds or Comiskey Park photos.

In 1972 DeCinces was a minor leaguer in the Orioles organization playing catch before a game in Asheville with the 12-year-old son of his manager, Cal Ripken, when bullets started hitting the ground just a few feet from them. DeCinces quickly got the boy out of danger. Police arrested a teenage boy who had been shooting at the field with a rifle, and the game went on as scheduled. A year later DeCinces was in the major leagues, and he soon established himself as a solid, if unspectacular, third baseman. After his age-30 season in 1981, Baltimore traded DeCinces to the Angels to make room for their big third base prospect – Cal Ripken Jr. DeCinces went on to have several more productive seasons with the Angels, before playing his last four big league games with the Cardinals in 1987. Overall, in 1,649 major league games, DeCinces hit .259 with 237 HR and 879 RBI. After his playing career, he went into the commercial real estate business. In 2012 DeCinces was indicted on charges of insider trading, securities fraud and money laundering. He was found guilty in 2017 and was sentenced to eight months of home detention and a $10,000 fine.