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Classic Sports Card of The Day

14 Mar

The Cleveland Indians were a pretty sorry baseball team in the 1960s, but they got a little respect from the Topps baseball card company with this 1967 “Tribe Thumpers” card, from www.CheckOutMyCards.com . It featured power hitters Leon “Daddy Wags” Wagner and Cleveland legend Rocky Colavito, who at this point was serving his second term with the Indians after being reacquired from the Kansas City Athletics. Colavito had been dealt to Detroit in 1960 in a rare trade in which the Indians traded Colavito, the league leader in home runs, for the Tigers’ Harvey Kuenn, the reigning AL batting champion. Wagner, after his playing days ended, owned a clothing store that featured the motto, “Buy your rags at Daddy Wags”, but he died broke and homeless in 2004.

 

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