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Who is this former Met and current media darling who was an Expo for two weeks and like Boris DeSpider, never appeared on a Topps baseball card as an Expo? Quiz Difficulty Rating: For this one, you don't even need eyeballs.

Topps Chewing Gum Co.: Preserving baseball's history through cutting room floor photos. Who is this player who was a Met teammate of Boris DeSpider for about a month and a half? I suppose this hint can be used to solve the first photo, too.

Who is this former Met who never appeared in a game for the A's and was never given a Topps card as a member of the A's either. Quiz Diffuculty Rating: Easier than Boris DeSpider.

Who is this one year fringe Met who ended his career in the Expos organization? Captured above by The Man From Topps, there is no Topps card of this player as either a Met or an Expo. Quiz Difficulty Rating: Tough.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That's Harry Chiti, who peed himself when he found out who thew PTBNL was. That's right! It's Harry Chiti, the human punchline to a team that was mostly, nothing but punchlines. There's a Zvon project in that photo. Zvon could photoshop a Met uniform onto Chiti, and then make up a fantasy baseball card with a split screen effect, using both Chiti images to highlight the odd Mets/Indians trade. Chiti never played a single game for the Tribe. His career was effectively over once the Mets returned him to Cleveland. Keith Hernandez might sympathize.

Frayed Knot wrote: I heard Joe Maddon say recently that he never double-switches during a line-up change unless he knows he needs to get a second inning out of his pitcher. Terry's philosophy seems to be that he only double-switches when it's possible to do so. Terry's like a kid with his new toys. He's been managing with a four (sometimes three) man bench all season long.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: One more Boy of Indian Summer from the Topps Archives. No Indian baseball card of this player exists. If you can identify him, or figure out why his crotch is all wet, you can win this cyber photo of either Chief Noc-A-Homa or a Braves bobblehead.

One more Boy of Indian Summer from the Topps Archives. No Indian baseball card of this player exists. If you can identify him, or figure out why his crotch is all wet, you can win this cyber photo of either Chief Noc-A-Homa or a Braves bobblehead.

nope.

9/29/67 might do the trick. I'll do the math.

9/1/67 is close, but no cigar. Harrelson Jones Johnson Kranepool Swoboda Stahl Buchek Sullivan Fisher

Ernie Bowman is even less of a Brave Face than Dennis Ribant. Although Bowman, at one time or other, belonged to both the Mets and the Braves, he never appeared in a game for either team. He did appear in Topps' 1966 set as a Met, capless and in a Braves uniform. Before 1956 Season: Signed by the New York Giants as an amateur free agent. January 8, 1964: the San Francisco Giants sent Ernie Bowman to the Milwaukee Braves to complete an earlier deal made on December 3, 1963. December 3, 1963: The San Francisco Giants sent a player to be named later, Felipe Alou, Ed Bailey and Billy Hoeft to the Milwaukee Braves for Del Crandall, Bob Hendley and Bob Shaw. September 25, 1965: the Milwaukee Braves sent Ernie Bowman and Lou Klimchock to the New York Mets to complete an earlier deal made on August 5, 1965. August 5, 1965: The Milwaukee Braves sent players to be named later to the New York Mets for Billy Cowan. (Date given is approximate. Exact date is uncertain.) October 12, 1966: Traded by the New York Mets with Lou Klimchock to the Cleveland Indians for Floyd Weaver. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bowmaer01.shtml Ernie Bowman in a Mets uniform; photography by Topps.

MFS62 wrote: I guess back in Boston, they didn't know that Spahn would make the HOF one day. If they had, they might have actually taken his picture instead of using an artist's drawing. Spahn wasn't singled out. The entire 1953 Topps set was illustrated.

More Boys of Indian Summer, from the Topps Archives photo collection. Red Kress Bob L. Miller (a three-month Indian) December 10, 1969: Traded by the Minnesota Twins with Dean Chance, Graig Nettles and Ted Uhlaender to the Cleveland Indians for Luis Tiant and Stan Williams. June 15, 1970: Traded by the Cleveland Indians with Barry Moore to the Chicago White Sox for Buddy Bradford and Tommie Sisk. September 1, 1970: Purchased by the Chicago Cubs from the Chicago White Sox.

Bob "Hawk" Taylor was a Milwaukee Brave for seven seasons and appeared in many Topps sets as a Brave. I unintentionally left Taylor out of the oringinal post: apparently a COMC search for Hawk Taylor does not turn up his Braves cards. But Bob Taylor does. The OP was amended.

Ernie Bowman is even less of a Brave Face than Dennis Ribant. Although Bowman, at one time or other, belonged to both the Mets and the Braves, he never appeared in a game for either team. He did appear in Topps' 1966 set as a Met, capless and in a Braves uniform. Before 1956 Season: Signed by the New York Giants as an amateur free agent. January 8, 1964: the San Francisco Giants sent Ernie Bowman to the Milwaukee Braves to complete an earlier deal made on December 3, 1963. December 3, 1963: The San Francisco Giants sent a player to be named later, Felipe Alou, Ed Bailey and Billy Hoeft to the Milwaukee Braves for Del Crandall, Bob Hendley and Bob Shaw. September 25, 1965: the Milwaukee Braves sent Ernie Bowman and Lou Klimchock to the New York Mets to complete an earlier deal made on August 5, 1965. August 5, 1965: The Milwaukee Braves sent players to be named later to the New York Mets for Billy Cowan. (Date given is approximate. Exact date is uncertain.) October 12, 1966: Traded by the New York Mets with Lou Klimchock to the Cleveland Indians for Floyd Weaver. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bowmaer01.shtml

Dennis Ribant is, technically, not a Brave Face, as he never appeared in a game for the Braves. Ribant was initially acquired by the Milwaukee Braves as a free agent, as were all amateurs entering the pros back then: there was no amateur draft. Ribant was traded to the Mets for Frank Lary in 1964, and appeared on his first Topps card the following season.

The first Brave Face belongs to Miracle Met Don Cardwell, photographed at Shea Stadium by the Topps' photographer in mid August, 1970. He was purchased by the Braves right before the All Star break, same year, and pitched just 23 innings the rest of the way. Cardwell was released in December of that year and called it a career. His 1970 Met card was his last.

More Brave Faces, from the Topps Archives, including finally, Gary Kolb in a baseball uniform. With logos and all. And a very young Felix Millan. Identify the Brave Faces in the first five pictures (all 5 Braves in one post) and you can win this cyber photo of a Chief Wahoo bobblehead.

More Boys of Indian Summer, from the Topps Archives photo collection.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: That Gooden card is both beautiful and oh-so-wrong. Myron Ginsburg? Joe Ginsberg.

Zvon wrote: THE AGEE! BIG WOW MOMENT! Awesome card. I have never seen that one before. Real or not that ones amazin'. The '64 Agee's a DIY I found on the web. I think that the Agee photo is one of those unused Topps' archives deals that was sold off. The two photos at the bottom of the original post are also Topps Archives photos (Ron Taylor '62 and Warren Spahn '73, pitching coach)

That smile right out of a Norman Rockwell painting against the bluest sky .... sweet shades of Ozzie Sweet!

So Matsuzaka takes like 45 or 55 seconds between each pitch? Not nearly long enough. The Mets would be better off if he never threw the ball.