I don't know why it stuck out to me.
Never heard of the guy. There's nothing spectacular about the image. It's not an action photo.
Just your basic high school yearbook, smile and shoot type of photo while wearing a baseball uniform.
A 1958 Topps I think, though I'm not positive it's an original or reissue.
None of the glitter and shine of cards from the last 30-plus years.
Not even a Yankee.
Maybe I heard Joe Garagiola mention his name during a 1970's televised game and am responding to that on some subconscious level?
I was just browsing, looking at images, prices and ETA's .... ETA being huge with me.
I don't want to wait two weeks, or even two hours, for delivery of anything.
And I have a thing for cards from the 1950's and early to mid 1960's.
Perhaps because 1956-1964 were the first eight years of my life and I began following baseball with the 1964 world series (as I recall) .... so anything that still remains unknown from those eight years before the game became part of my world is fascinating to me.
Or quite possibly because I'm still basically just a geek/nerd/dork?
So I looked at his MLB career statistics ..... the minor league numbers on the back of the card looked impressive.
His MLB numbers, not so much.
Fourteen game appearances, zero wins, two losses .... and ERA of nearly 8.00 (Yikes!) and a negative WAR number, which I assume is not good.
I don't care much for these new-fangled stats, like WAR, that became a thing long after my youth.
So maybe Joe G never mentioned him.
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