Today is just a single card, featuring Bill Bruton. It's one of my favorite cards in the set, so it gets single billing. Plus it gets us to a nice round 20 cards. Bruton was a Braves speedster, specializing in triples. As a matter of fact, he's one of only three guys to hit two bases-loaded triples in a single game, the others being Elmer Valo and Duane Kuiper. He hit a nice .412 in the 1958 World Series against the Yankees, after having had to sit out the 1957 WS with an injury. After baseball, he ended up at Chrysler, where he climbed the ladder to be a special assistant to Lee Iacocca. He also was inducted into the Delware Sports Hall of Fame, along with the likes of his father-in-law, Negro Leaguer Judy Johnson, and the much heralded John Wockenfuss. That's two mentions in a 1960 thread now, for Johnny Wockenfuss, which is pretty good, since he didn't appear in the bigs for another dozen or so years. As I said, it's one of my favorite cards, because I love the Braves uniforms of that era. The screaming Indian, the tomahawk, and the script Braves on the front. The 1960 set doesn't have a lot of action shots, if any, so this is as close as you get. At least the head shots usually have the right cap, though. And to make the card even better, it features my beloved Wrigley Field in the background, as does the Pinson card above. Maybe I should do a subset of Wrigley Field cards, which would include almost the entire 1981 Donruss set. Enjoy the beauty of the Bruton card, and have an awesome day!
