Sunday, July 31, 2011

Don't look at me, I didn't pick out his name

I was trolling the Topps Diamond Giveaway site a few days ago making offers for those last few die cut cards I want when I saw a Washington Senators card that I just had to have.




How great is that name? Don't go thinking I just traded for it because of his name either. I needed that card for my extended Rangers collection that includes the pre-Rangers Senators cards.




Check out that season he had in 1967 at York. A fine 2.81 ERA with an 0-16 record. That's brutal! Dick only played one season in the majors and you can see all his stats on the back of this card. 21 games, 1-5 record and a 7.56 ERA.

Now I need to add his 1970 Topp Senators Rookie card and I'll have the entire Dick Such collection. Get your mind out of the gutter...

On a side note, the July contest starts tomorrow. It involves my mother-in-law and a pre-birthday birthday gift!
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4 comments:

  1. Chris StufflestreetJuly 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM

    When i first picked up this card as a kid, I wondered whether he pronounced his last name the same way we say it in English...or if he used a more Germanic diction that made the "ch" sound like a "k." For his sake, I hoped it was the former.

    "Such" are the things that travel through a 17 year-old mind.

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  2. SpastikMoossJuly 31, 2011 at 2:53 PM

    Haha. I like that your Dick card from the Giveaway was pertinent to a collection. My Dick Lines card...totally random...but so worth it!

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  3. Scott FendleyJuly 31, 2011 at 3:04 PM

    Well, there was a Tony Suck in the 1800's. He did. And good ol' Johnny Dickshot.

    But I had to look up that York team. The White Roses (yes, that was their name) scored just 351 runs in 138 games. That's 2.54 runs per game.

    They had a team mark of .217 / .302 / .276. Yes, a .276 SLG for the team!

    They hit 27 home runs as a team. Del Unser led them with six. Brant Alyea had five and led the team with a .336 SLG.

    The pitchers, though, gave up just 26 home runs. The whole league was an offensive suck - they averaged less than a double per game and teams scored just 3.24 runs per game.

    An entire season of 3-2 and 2-1 games.

    Such gave up 17 unearned runs. With such lousy hitting, there was no margin for error (as it were).

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  4. Collective TrollJuly 31, 2011 at 4:47 PM

    Me and Chris were on the same wavelength with the pronunciation thing, I was sure it was said SUCK, too...
    I also thought about his name written like this:
    Such,Dick. A perfect name for a Yankee!

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