Back to the Brace bag and some seldom-seen shots of "Dr. Strangelove" during the rapid unscheduled disassembly of a career that saw him hit a startling 66 homers at Lincoln of the Western League in 1956, lead a World Championship team in homers in his third big league season, get MVP votes in three different seasons...and then come apart at the seams.
Dealt to the Red Sox for 1963, the Phillies for 1965, the Mets for 1966, released to the Dodgers in 1966, released
by the Dodgers in 1967, to Japan for two seasons, back to get just eight hits in two months with the '69 Angels (I actually saw him play for them at Yankee Stadium when I was 10) and when released again, a fruitless audition for the Giants with their PCL farm in Phoenix.
What's puzzling is that George Brace got Stuart with all of his clubs through '66 (Topps even got him, at Dodger Stadium, and then again at Vero Beach before his controversial release during Spring Training '67) - but neither he nor anybody else got him in color with the Angels, even though California played a two-game series at Comiskey in April (he started one of the games).
To my knowledge there is no color of Stuart with the Angels and I've seen only two black and white shots, one of which is a not very good copy of a team publicity photo I previously posted here:
https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...ostcount=25285
Still, a couple of nice Dodger shots, and he did pinch-hit in the World Series for them.