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Old 06-11-2025, 03:41 PM
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Default Ryan faces Aaron for the final time game used dugout card

Recently back from the framer, I finally completed a project that I have been contemplating for quite a while.

This is the game used dugout card from the June 15th, 1976 game in which HOF Nolan Ryan faced HOF great Hank Aaron for the final time.
Aaron came into the game as a pinch hitter late in the game and was fanned by the All-Time Strikeout King Nolan Ryan (5,714 career strikeouts).
Ryan pitches a 2-hit shutout with 9 K's and defeats the Brew Crew 1-0.
An epic last duel involving two MLB greats.
Ironically, Aaron also faced Nolan Ryan in his ML debut game on 9/11/66 and flied out.

Original period-correct snapshots of The Express and Hammerin' Hank wearing a Milwaukee Brewers uniform in his final season in the MLB.

This dugout card was loaned to the (now closed) Ryan Center museum in Alvin, TX in 1999 (Ryan's HOF Induction Year).
The red placard was created for the display by the Ryan Center.
Aaron signed the dugout card IP for me back in the early 1990's at a signing in So Cal.
Nolan signed the card as well before returning it to me in 2002 after being on display for 4 years.

Many thanks to net54 good-guy Gary Scamehorn for allowing me to complete this project by finding the Aaron Brewers snapper that I had been searching for.
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