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Old 07-01-2015, 10:16 PM   #25590
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Bobby Smith 1957

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Originally Posted by Merkle923 View Post
Only seen one of these before - the longtime National League outfielder (and original Met) at the rump end of his career with the '65 Angels.
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Not only did BG Smith play for the 1962 Mets, the previous season he'd been with the Phillies and their 23-game losing streak. After a month as a Met, he was swapped to the Cubs (the 9th-place, 103-loss, "College of Coaches" Cubs) before being reprieved with a trade to Cardinals at the end of July. The man played a lot of bad baseball for a lot of bad teams.

Still, that's no reason to picture him with a purple sky, so I fiddled a bit. I think it's an improvement…of sorts.

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I don't have long to fine-tune it, but how about this one?

EDITED TO ADD: Had a little more time this evening so I tinkered a bit more with the color balance.
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