What a card: This card recognizes Don Sutton's 19th season with 100-or-more strikeouts. The record is now held by Nolan Ryan, who recorded 24 seasons of a 100-or-more strikeouts. Greg Maddux had 21 such seasons.
My observation on the front: We've already reached one of my least favorite cards in the set. What a ghastly picture. It's too close, Sutton looks like he's in mid-sentence, and his refusal to use Brylcreem is off-putting in this photo. Where is the action shot of Don?
More opinion from me: Thank goodness, this is the last record-breaker card in the subset. Ten record-breaker cards is too many.
Something you might know: Sutton is now a radio broadcaster for the Atlanta Braves. He used to be a regular member of the TBS television broadcasting crew for Atlanta through the '90s.
Something you might not know: Sutton has the most at-bats (1,354) without a home run out of anyone who has played major league baseball.
My observation on the back: For the second time in this subset, Steve Carlton just misses making a record breaker card. Ten cards and they couldn't get Carlton in.
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ReplyDeleteTwenty-six years later, and Don Sutton looks like he has barely aged. I guess that made him very old-looking in '85, huh?
ReplyDeleteYea, it looks like they were celebrating a record he set 20 years earlier.
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