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Awesome tie-in, courtesy of the team's Wikipedia entry:
The Islanders baseball team is mentioned on a number of occasions in the 80's television series of "Magnum PI". The main character played by Tom Selleck was a baseball fan for the Islanders and often he wore a Detroit Tigers ball cap.
(The 1979 Islanders served as a San Diego affiliate, not the Tigers; that part's Magnum all the way.)
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TCMA left Andy's 1978 stats off his card, possibly because he split time between 3 organizations--Seattle, Toronto, and the aforementioned San Diego. (Full stats at Baseball-Reference.com.) It proved his best professional season; Andy retired after two more years in Honolulu, something we can all aspire to doing.
Value: I bought this #5 on eBay for $1, about what you'd expect to pay for minor league singles.
Fakes / Reprints: People have probably reprinted valuable minor league league cards of big MLB stars, but I don't know of any for commons.
2 comments:
Oh my goodness, what a great card.
I liked its inclusion of the team's insignia in prominent fashion (for lack of stats). He's a pretty dramatic-looking dude in the cape and hat.
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