Last week baseball lost another legend. Here is one more card in the style of the 1967 Alt-Topps. Over the past several years he has been featured on this blog more than a few times. In fact, he was even included in my latest posts of the 1967 Alt-Topps. He was on the AL batting leaders card.
He passed away on the 6th of April and his #6 was retired by Detroit in 1980. I thought it might be interesting to see how Kaline performed on April 6th over his Hall of Fame career. But what I came to realize is that the baseball season for the most part used to begin mid-April. Its has been creeping earlier and earlier since 1970. Kaling had only played on April 6th 3 times in his career. Collectively, he hit .462 in just 3 games: 1970, 1971 and 1974. He went 6 for 13 with 3 walks, 2 RBIs and 2 runs scored. Not bad.
Here are the cards that I've created for this blog in the past:
Very nice tribute to one of the most talented and classy players in the history of the game. As a kid in the 60's, I got to see him play (on TV) in his prime.
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