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Larry Gura 1970
For quite awhile I've wondered if anybody caught reliable lefty Larry Gura at the rump end of his career in 1985, back where it had begun in 1970 at Wrigley Field.
Silly question. Brace got him! The Royals had been gifted him by the Yankees in 1976 (because Billy Martin was mad at Gura) and he pitched well against New York five times in the ALCS of 1976-77-78-80 (including the opener of the KC sweep in 1980). Kansas City finally released him in May 1985, the Cubs signed him, pitched him twice, sent him to Iowa, brought him back in July for the final three appearances of his career.
So here he is, all from this same Brace lot, in the flannels he wore as a rookie in 1970, in the first Cubs double-knits from 1972, and finally in the pullovers of 1985.
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