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Old 05-06-2015, 04:11 AM   #25190
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Craig Anderson 1961

As always, I'm way behind on Topps Vault downloading/IDing, but here's a few things I've run across lately that haven't been posted in the thread. As usual, I tried to color-correct where needed, although others may do a better job.

Original Met Craig Anderson with the team that didn't keep him, the '61 Cardinals. (We only had him in BW, before.)

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And as an Amazin', albeit hatlessly, probably the next season. (There was one MLB color photo I saw before, but this is better for the face, IMO.)

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Bill James notes that Anderson was one of the first pitchers ever explicitly groomed to be a reliever, rather than a starter. Of course the Mets put him in the rotation anyway (better him than Vinegar Bend Mizell or Roadblock Jones), and he got off to a 3-1 start…and then an 0-18 finish. Ouch.

(And yes, the colors still aren't right in either pic. But they're better than how TV had them. So it's a start.)
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