Today's photo of the day.......Geeez, I forgot he played for them!

[mchenrycards]

Awesome replies guys... Keep them coming.

i totally forgot some of these guys playing for these other teams.

 

[BBCgalaxee]

Little known defunct team, the Oakland Yankees

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[Flyers16]

Didn't Steve Carlton also pitch for the White Sox and Giants at the tail end of his career?

Eddie Mathews with the Tigers, Juan Marichel with the Red Sox, Tom Seaver with the Red Sox, Randy Johnson with the Giants, Fred McGriff with the Cubs, Dave Winfield with the Twins and Indians, Joe Morgan with the A's.

Excellent topic.

 

[D-Lite]

Steve carlton as a Twin is strange to me

Looks like it's pretty strange for him too

 

[Pinbreaker]

Didn't Steve Carlton also pitch for the White Sox and Giants at the tail end of his career?

Eddie Mathews with the Tigers, Juan Marichel with the Red Sox, Tom Seaver with the Red Sox, Randy Johnson with the Giants, Fred McGriff with the Cubs, Dave Winfield with the Twins and Indians, Joe Morgan with the A's.

Excellent topic.

Imagine what Atlanta's pitching staff would have been like had Randy Signed with the Braves..

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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]06-07-1982[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Selected by Atlanta Braves in the 4th round of the free-agent draft - did not sign (June 7, 1982).[/TD]
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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]06-03-1985[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Selected by Montreal Expos in the 2nd round of the free-agent draft (June 3, 1985 - signed June 9, 1985).[/TD]
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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]05-25-1989[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Traded by Montreal Expos with Brian Holman and Gene Harris to Seattle Mariners in exchange for Mark Langston and a player to be named later (May 25, 1989); Montreal Expos received Mike Campbell (July 31, 1989).[/TD]
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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]07-31-1998[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Traded by Seattle Mariners to Houston Astros in exchange for Freddy Garcia, Carlos Guillen and a player to be named later (July 31, 1998); Seattle Mariners received John Halama (October 1, 1998).[/TD]
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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]10-28-1998[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Granted free agency (October 28, 1998).[/TD]
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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]12-10-1998[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Signed by Arizona Diamondbacks (December 10, 1998).[/TD]
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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]01-11-2005[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Traded by Arizona Diamondbacks to New York Yankees in exchange for Javier Vazquez, Brad Halsey,Dioner Navarro and cash (January 11, 2005).[/TD]
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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]01-09-2007[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Traded by New York Yankees with cash to Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Luis Vizcaino, Ross Ohlendorf, Alberto Gonzalez and Steven Jackson (January 9, 2007).[/TD]
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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]11-13-2008[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Granted free agency (November 13, 2008).[/TD]
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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]12-26-2008[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Signed by San Francisco Giants (December 26, 2008).[/TD]
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[TD="class: datacol, width: 75, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]11-16-2009[/TD]
[TD="class: datacol, bgcolor: #F3E9CE"]Granted free agency (November 16, 2009).[/TD]
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[Super Mario]

 

[DeliciousBacon]

John Smoltz with the Red Sox...such a weird thing to have happened...

 

[Austin]

Willie McCovey played for Oakland for 11 games in 1976:

 

[mrmopar]

Three more 60s favorites who made brief stops in LA

 

[DeliciousBacon]

1983 ASA The Juan Marichal Story [???] #9 - Walter Alston, Juan Marichal
Courtesy of COMC.com

I had this card as a kid, used to find it all the time in those junk repacks that were everywhere in the 80's.

 

[Austin]

Manny Ramirez played 5 games for the Rays before he was suspended again and retired.

 

[gracecollector]

The one that breaks my heart.

 

[KLARNOLD]

How about Ken Griffey Jr in a White Sox uniform:

 

[smapdi]

I remember seeing an ebay auction for a Griffey card that was described as "17/xxxx JERSEY NUMBER!!!1!!" and I was like LOL but then I was like oh.

And when this card came out, some people thought UD had lost their minds but then quickly figured it out.

It was sad seeing Carlton hanging on at the end. Five teams in 2 years, just unable to walk away. I think he had some sort of financial problems, but man, it was sad. Guy was elected with over 95% of the vote and is sort of an afterthought today in discussing the great pitchers of all time, and I wonder if the last couple years really tarnished him.

So many great players from back when there were either no cards or just one set to mark their play. Nowadays, you would not have missed Reggie in a Baltimore uni, or Carlton in any of his. My favorite is that Jimmie Foxx was a Phillie for half a season in 1945, and a Cub the 2 years before that. You never see him in anything but an A's or Red Sox uni.

 

[olerud363]

A thread like this isn't complete without mention of Rickey Henderson. I remember him as a late-season rental for the Blue Jays in 1993, but I don't remember him as a Dodger.

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[Austin]

^ Yeah, Rickey Henderson is my all-time favorite player, so it was sad seeing him switch teams every year late in his career.

This is insane:

1995 Oakland
1996 San Diego
1997 Toronto
1997 Anaheim
1998 Oakland
1999 New York
2000 Seattle
2001 San Diego
2002 Boston
2003 Los Angeles

These teams just don't look right:

 

[mchenrycards]

And how about Warren Spahn

 

[MrMet]

And how about Warren Spahn

I coulda told you that one, along with a host of others, lol

 

[Austin]

Spahn went to the Giants that same season he was a Met, and ended up retiring after 16 games in San Francisco:

 

[BBCgalaxee]

Hard to believe ud made a proof card the day before the Yanks traded for him



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