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Merkle923 · 02-05-2017, 06:12 PM

A couple of Dexters and 1969 Collections to pass the most boring night of the year...

For years I didn't think there was one image of this Spring-Training-Only Met (save for his appearance in the team's Spring Training club photo) and then he turned up in J.D. McCarthy's 1967 file - and now in Dexters.

After going to the Mets from the Dodgers in the Ron Hunt/Tommy Davis deal, Griffith was flipped to the Astros on March 24 for Sandy Alomar. This suggests there could be a Dexter of Alomar in an Astros uniform - although there wasn't one in this collection (he never appeared for them) but precludes a Dexter of Alomar in Mets' garb.

Interestingly, it also confirms that when Topps shot the Mets in Spring Training, it had to have done so after March 24, 1967, because Alomar appears in that year's final series in a shot clearly taken at the team facility in St. Petersburg. This also dates the other Mets photographed that spring (including the infamous Tom Seaver shoot in which he posed as a left-handed pitcher, which itself explains why Topps was so short of different images of Seaver through the 1969 card year).

02-05-2017, 06:12 PM	#30206
Merkle923 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,185	Not A Football Guy Night #1: Derrell Griffith 1963 A couple of Dexters and 1969 Collections to pass the most boring night of the year... For years I didn't think there was one image of this Spring-Training-Only Met (save for his appearance in the team's Spring Training club photo) and then he turned up in J.D. McCarthy's 1967 file - and now in Dexters. After going to the Mets from the Dodgers in the Ron Hunt/Tommy Davis deal, Griffith was flipped to the Astros on March 24 for Sandy Alomar. This suggests there could be a Dexter of Alomar in an Astros uniform - although there wasn't one in this collection (he never appeared for them) but precludes a Dexter of Alomar in Mets' garb. Interestingly, it also confirms that when Topps shot the Mets in Spring Training, it had to have done so after March 24, 1967, because Alomar appears in that year's final series in a shot clearly taken at the team facility in St. Petersburg. This also dates the other Mets photographed that spring (including the infamous Tom Seaver shoot in which he posed as a left-handed pitcher, which itself explains why Topps was so short of different images of Seaver through the 1969 card year). Last edited by Merkle923; 08-04-2017 at 02:08 AM.