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1961 Topps #12, Moe Thacker
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Moe Thacker's 1961 Topps card #12 is shown here, both front and back: http://home.triad.rr.com/ovis/images/012_Thacker-a.jpg http://home.triad.rr.com/ovis/images/012_Thacker-b.jpg I truly love these cartoons. Especially the ones on the cards of players who really haven't done anything positive you can write about. The first cartoon about being in the Yankee farm system is just meaningless, and the second one is a hoot. Topps had a way of going to the glove when they were faced with a player who couldn't hit, and that's what they did here. And Moe Thacker couldn't hit!! Except for his first year, 1958, when he only had 24 at bats before being sent back down to the minors, Moe didn't ever threaten the Mendoza line!! (usually considered to be .200, although Mario Mendoza actually ended up with a .215 career batting average.) Moe's career batting average was a wonderfully bad ..177. In 1961, the year of this card, Moe was the third catcher on the Cubs team, behind Dick Bertell, and Sammy Taylor. Even though his batting average was only .171, he did get walked 11 times in 47 plate appearances, which gave him an on-base percentage of .383, but that was a fluke year. Moe came up for 11 games early in 1958, before being sent back to the minors. He came back up in 1960 and was with the Cubs until he was sent, at the end of the 1962 season, to St. Louis, in a fairly important trade, which sent Moe, Don Cardwell, and George Altman to the Cards, for starter Larry Jackson, reliever Lindy McDaniel, and catcher Jimmie Schaffer. He only appeared in 3 games for St. Louis in 1963, his last year. Unfortunately, Moe passed away in November, 1997, at the age of 63. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Wade |
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