Stars in unusual uniforms at the end of their careers.
 

I am starting a set of stars who are depicted on cards wearing "unusual" uniforms during the last 1 or 2 years of their pro careers.

These are the first three that instantly came to mind.

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Juan marchical on dodgers, carlton on minn i think he was..ricky henderson dodgers/padres..

Griffey in a White Sox uniform is always jarring. I do appreciate that both he and Ichiro went back to Seattle to finish their careers.

It was also weird seeing Hideki Matsui in Angels, A's and Rays jerseys to end his career.

maddux and henderson on padres


i wonder how many teams have 2-5 Hall of FAmers that played for them but only for their last year of their career....

I love this idea! I've thought about putting together a subset like this in the past as well. Here are some that come to mind...

Killebrew

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I will always remember Boggs as a Devil Ray, not sure why.

88. Traidorous
The feeling of treachery you get when seeing pictures or cards of an all time great dressed in the uniform of a rival team he was dumped off to in the twilight of his career.

Not Post 1980s but this is one of the few images of Ruth in his final uniform:

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Posted a 3.39 ERA in 71 innings for the Giants.

Thanks for the contribution to this set idea!

Here's another three:

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Played 9 games for the Dodgers after the Angels got rid of him, but he was a Dodger earlier in his career and good for them then.

Here's another pile of alternate realities...

Boggs on the Rays is always weird.

This one always gives me a double take as well when I see a Cards pic -

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Oh, and some of the all-time members -

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Joe D. in an Oakland A's uni....

You aren't kidding...wow! https://www.mlb.com/news/joe-dimaggi...land-a-s-coach

He has that WTF look on his face.

Not the end, but Piazza in a Marlin uni, although didn't he play for the Padres too at the end?

Willie Davis as a Cardinal/Padre

Al Oliver as a Dodger/Giant/Blue Jay/Philly

Vizquel as a Blue Jay, have a nice Topps Archive buyback auto card signed in BJ uni.

Four HOFers played for the Royals. One (Brett) for 21 years. The other three (Cepeda, Killebrew, Gaylord Perry) for one year each.

The Mets had 5 HOFers play their final season in NY, Richie Ashburn, Gil Hodges, Warren Spahn, Yogi Berra and Willie Mays

Tried to post the ‘64 Duke Snider, no luck on my phone

Got you.

Bath Ruth with the Braves

No card as far as I know, but there is a Giants Snider photo.
Makes me cringe when I see it.

Deon Sanders with the Syracuse Sky Chiefs

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Jerry Rice with the Denver Broncos. (I do not think he ever played a regular season game with the Broncos, just pre-season.)

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This one threw me off a bit...

Bobby Doerr with the Toronto Blue Jays as their hitting coach!

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Thank you for posting that!

How about these two:

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Winfield probably had more cards than plate appearances as a Cleveland Indian in 1995.

Thome ended his career with the Orioles, but getting their mid season meant he has very few cards as an Oriole.

Basketball big men in some odd attire...

Had no idea Doc Gooden pitched for Houston or that Patrick Ewing played for the Magic. So those were very weird.

Don't have a pic but Mike Piazza as an A always seemed bizarre. Saw that Frank Thomas and Eric Karros ended there as well so they were all about retiring the stars of the 90s.

I had to buy this Bubble Yum set especially for the Doerr when I found out about it.

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I can't believe Dave Winfield let them put a photo up of him in a bunt pose.

I love this one

If you know the backstory, I don't think this one applies...

Dwight Evans as a Baltimore Oriole always throws me.

Not a HOF caliber player, but I've met former Red Sox catcher Rich Gedman a few times...the last time he was signing autographs and someone presented him a card of him as a member of the Houston Astros. I said "Oh wow, I forgot you played for the Astros." His reply? "Me too.". :D

Since we're talking about players whose final seasons were with teams fans wouldn't associate them with, I thought this would be of interest.

Bobby Abreu played his final season with the Mets. I don't have a card showing him as Met - I don't know if one exists - but I was at his last game in 2014, and after his final Major League at-bat the Mets put a graphic on the scoreboard thanking him for 18 great Major League seasons.

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I thought that was weird, because 17 of those great seasons were against the Mets. :eek:

Waite Hoyt

Spahn

And the companion 1965 Met. He played in only 4 games for them.

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Threads such as this one are great for helping lower my rarity score on immaculate grid .... just have to make sure that the player actually played a regular season game (IE Jerry Rice, Broncos).

The Penguin in A's green.
Card was released after his mid-season retirement.

Abreu did appear on a few Mets cards, and I agree, it's weird.

https://www.tcdb.com/Images/Cards/Ba...10136965Fr.jpg

And if you remember, the 1966 2nd series checklist originally had Spahn as card #115 otherwise we would have a San Francisco Giants card of Spahn to conclude his career.

And you know, I would have like to have seen a capper card for Spahn with the complete career record.

Regards
Rich

This thread will be of assistance to all of us playing Immaculate Grid!!




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Bending the rules because this is a coach card and not a "playing days" card, but I always get a kick out of this card when flipping through my 1987 Topps binder. Yogi Berra as an Astro.

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Yep! Exactly.

Ok, this one has me baffled. I know DiMaggio almost got traded to the Red Sox but the deal fell through. What's the story here?

Always forget he ended up in St. Louis.

And his Dodger partner, with 2 obscure stints near the end.

The A's are, and always have been, the masters of this.

OTOMH:

Cobb (2 years)
Speaker
Lajoie (although he also played there early in his career)
Billy Williams (although 2 seasons)
Cepeda (3 games, but not right at the end)
Piazza
Joe Morgan
Satchel Paige
Wheat

Other fun ones:

Ed Walsh on the Braves
Eddie Plank on the Browns
Ray Schalk on the Giants

We tend to associate Hughie Jennings with the Tigers (or at least I do) since that's the team he's on for all of his 20th century cards, but he was actually a Baltimore Oriole (19th c. edition). All those cards of Ee-yah in Detroit gear should look weird, even if they don't.

And then there are the ones that didn't actually happen. Rollie Fingers was traded by the Padres to the Cardinals on Dec. 8th 1980, and then traded to the Brewers four days later. Similarly, Robin Roberts was traded to the Yankees before the 1962 season, but then the Yankees traded him to the Orioles before the season started. His 1962 Topps card says that he's on the Yankees, but it shows him in his Phillies uniform, because he never actually suited-up for the Yanks. (Sorry, Fingers and Roberts won't help you with IG.)

Great idea!
 

What a funny idea for a collection! Here's three more for you to add...

Would love for you to share when you feel the collection is complete!

Not sure if you (the OP) are on Trading Card Database, but this would make for a compelling TCDB "list"--a visual of each card in your preferred order.

Gooden had very brief stints with Houston and Tampa Bay. I don't think he really had another Astros card and I don't think he ever appeared as a Devil Ray players.

And another Abreu, from his Dodgers run. I believe he only made it into Update and Heritage High Number as a Dodger, which is a tiny amount of sets for modern.

I believe that (and chrome parallels) are in fact his only Astros card. As far as I know, no Rays cards of him exist.

The best I ever saw and brought me a WS Championship..

In the past two days I saw Duke Snider with the Expos.....and Dale Murphy with the St. Louis Cardinals

Steve Carlton in any uniform other than the Cardinals or Phillies.
After the Phillies he played for the Giants, White Sox, Cleveland and Minnesota.
Bob

Frank Thomas mader a stop in Oakland as well.

The Dodgers were equally skilled at picking up aging players near the ends of their careers.

Off the top of my head: A. Vaughan, Cuyler, Maranville, both Waner Bros, Ruth (Coach), Maglie, F. Robinson, B Powell, E Murray, Bunning, Boyer, G Carter, Marichal, Thome, Pujols, Maddux, Utley, V. Romo, Belanger. I am sure given a few hours to think, I could list many more.

The Red Sox have a pretty good (or bad) record in late career pickups as well. You can go back to Herb Pennock (the second time), Bing Miller, Rube Walberg, Rudy York, Luis Aparicio, Bob Veale, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda, Bob Bailey, Tony Perez and Tom Seaver. And that just scratches the “maybe they have one more good year in them” pile