1981 Donruss Pirates pitchers Grant Jackson and Eddie Solomon. What I find cool about these photos is the fact that they are wearing different pants and stirrups but the tops are the same. One of the many away combos the Pirates used back in the 80's
Before I dive into the cards here is an interesting note taken from http://wrigleywax.blogspot.com/ about the card photos.
"Wagon Gates: The gates were a reddish brown color. Today they are green and have ads placed on two of them. The gate behind Eddie Soloman is no longer there".
1981 Donruss #15-Grant Jackson
1. Pitched in two games, but it was a double header. So, the photo was taken on Aug 6th 1980. Just not sure on which game. He pitched the 7th inning of game one and then came in at the 7th of game 2 and pitched 3 innings of relief for his 6th save. Nice uni note with the black pants.
1981 Donruss #16-Eddie Solomon
1. Pitched two games at Wrigley that year.
2. Game one was Aug 7th, a complete game. The second game was Sept 26th when he came in relief of the candy man for 1/3 of an inning.
Based on my internet old newspaper finds from an old grainy photo, my guess is that the photo was taken on September 26th.
Photos solved?
1981 Donruss #134-Jim Bibby
Funny things is after looking at my cards I noticed this gem. Same game as Grant Jackson!
Game:
August 6, 1980 at Wrigley Field
Box Score Line
Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO HR BFP Bibby 6 8 5 5 2 3 2 26
Grant Jackson took the hill in the 7th in relief.
1 comment:
Enjoyed both posts so far, I'm looking forward to seeing more!
...although I'm not the best at this type of thing myself, so you won't get many responses to "Photos solved?" from me. :-)
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