What a card: After six years with the Angels, Don Aase joined his third major league team by signing as a free agent with the Orioles in December 1984.
How'd that go: Quite well. Aase set then-career marks in appearances and saves in 1985 and won 10 games. He'd enjoy an even better season the following year and receive the only All-Star selection of his career.
Backatcha: This is the look of the Traded card backs. You can see it is much brighter than the flagship card backs because Topps used white card stock for the Traded set for the third straight year. I remember thinking the white stock looked cheap compared with the gray stock that I knew. But little did I know that it would become the wave of the future.
Back-to-back:
The original card is No. 86, blogged on Aug. 24, 2012.
Here is the first comparison of the Traded card with the flagship card. This is the part that awed me about Traded sets when they first became a regular thing in the early 1980s.
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Thanks for continuing this with the traded set. I’ve really enjoyed the base set blog over the years. ⚾️
ReplyDeleteI'm chuckling at the idea that the white stock looks cheaper than the grey. By the time I encountered Traded cards in the late 80s white had already become sort of premium feeling.
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