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Fred Whitfield 1962 (in 1968)
Imagine the Reds' surprise when they dealt Tommy Harper to Cleveland for a slugging first baseman who'd slumped to 9 homers in 1967 after hitting 53 homers in the previous two seasons. That was Fred Whitfield. He'd hit only 7 for them in 1968, bat .149 in 1969, and be released.
There are two other color images of him in Cincinnati garb: a spring training shot in pinstripes, probably taken for the Dexter postcard set, and an unused Topps image taken at Crosley Field during the '69 season that got out somehow (again, the Rule of W at Topps - there were only sporadic files of players whose names started with a letter later than "T.")
These Braces, not carrying the 100th Anniversary logo, are by process of elimination, from 1968.
Whitfield finished up with a one week, 1-for-15 cameo for the '70 Expos. I've never seen any color of him with Montreal and don't expect to. His brief tenure did not feature a stop in New York or San Francisco (for Topps) or Chicago (for Brace).
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