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Merkle923 · 05-11-2015, 08:34 PM

Those Butch Alberts images in the latest Topps Vault posting led me to this six-year old observation here, namely that the 1980 Topps Rookies card supposedly showing Blue Jays' pitcher Butch Edge actually depicted their brief DH/3B from 1978, Butch Alberts:
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...-post8148.html

Doing a google image search for Edge, it appears there's a paucity of major league images of him (except a bunch of Topps images of him with the Brewers, for whom he never appeared). I happened to get him for a not very inspiring pose on a dreary afternoon at the very end of the 1979 season, if it's of any use:

05-11-2015, 08:34 PM	#25226
Merkle923 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,185	Butch Edge 1979 Those Butch Alberts images in the latest Topps Vault posting led me to this six-year old observation here, namely that the 1980 Topps Rookies card supposedly showing Blue Jays' pitcher Butch Edge actually depicted their brief DH/3B from 1978, Butch Alberts: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...-post8148.html Doing a google image search for Edge, it appears there's a paucity of major league images of him (except a bunch of Topps images of him with the Brewers, for whom he never appeared). I happened to get him for a not very inspiring pose on a dreary afternoon at the very end of the 1979 season, if it's of any use: Last edited by Merkle923; 08-01-2017 at 08:44 PM.