Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Some New Expos

I have a person on Facebook that connects with me every so often with a batch of Expos for sale. 
I recently bought the stack he's had for me for a while. I received it today. 

A bunch of it was 90 Donruss and thus added to the duplicate pile numbers for the Project, but he also sent me a number of 1973 Topps.. 


A nice grouping here of cards. 
I like that Boots Day card. The Marshall is a victim of airbrushing.. 
I like that Gene Mauch card and the coaches. 
Something interesting on that Mauch card is this: 
For the coaches it says "Years in OB" 
I imagine that means Organized Baseball.. 
One of the coaches was Larry Doby. 


I figured I'd just scan the front and back to show it better.. 



The last two cards I got that I needed were Ron Woods and Jose Laboy. I'm not sure where the Laboy photo was taken. 

With these cards, I now am four away from having the team set completed. 

576: Expos Team
592: John Boccabella
606: Gary Matthews/Tom Paciorek/Jorge Roque
607: Pepe Frias/Ray Busse/Mario Guerrero

Also, if anyone happens to have card 104: Reggie Cleveland that you're willing to part with, I'd appreciate it as well. 


5 comments:

  1. Didn't realize Larry Doby has an Expos card. Heck... I didn't even realize that he coached for them. Very cool.

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    1. Doby is also featured on the Mauch 1974 card.. Or his disembodied head is, anyway...

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  2. Boots Day was the first-ever batter at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, in 1971.

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