The beginning of another year also brings about the fourth anniversary of this blog's founding. Now, now, you didn't have to get me anything. But I got something for you: a nifty portrait of Reggie Jackson in a modern Oriole uniform...or should I say, a conglomeration of modern O's uniforms. Obviously, the black-and-orange Serious Bird helmet was current as of 2010, but the "Orioles" script looks a bit small and there's no tail underneath, making it look more like the wordmark the team used throughout the 1970s and 1980s. It's kind of fun to play a little "what-if" by putting Reggie in a 21st-century Birds uniform 25 years after his lone season in Baltimore. But I do wish artist Paul Lempa had paid a little more attention to detail. Still, it's nothing to get apoplectic over.
Actually, I had no idea Reggie played for the O's...
ReplyDeleteYeah, Reggie held out for awhile. We gave up Don Baylor for him. He had one really good month and then headed to New York. He had no idea of what it meant to be an Orioles player.
ReplyDeleteDavid - Yep, at the dawn of free agency (1976) the A's traded Reggie to the O's for a package headlined by Baylor, as H-Man said. He held out for a month and had a subpar year by his standards. There were no O's cards of Reggie during his career, just retro cards released more recently. As close as you can get are the 1988 Score career tribute cards, with one action photo of him in orange and black.
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