Who is the man: Chuck Dobson. continuing with a solid five-year stretch for the A's, set career highs in 1970 for games pitched, innings pitched, wins, complete games and shutouts. He also set career highs for walks, home runs allowed and runs allowed.
Can ya dig it: I've said it before, I'll say it again, I don't think there's really a ball in that glove.
Right on: There is something odd but also funky about the A's old caps that just said "A" on them. They're like The Fonz's team.
You see this cat Dobson is a bad mother: Dobson is featured on the fifth card in this set in most memorable fashion.
Shut your mouth: Dobson was known to voice his opinion and it got him in trouble with regard to amphetamines. He admitted to using "greenies," and when Commissioner Bowie Kuhn cracked down on players' use of the drug in spring training of 1971, Dobson told the Sporting News: "If the commissioner says we can't use them anymore, then the next time someone asked me whether I use them, I'll say no, go around the corner and pop." Dobson and Kuhn had a conversation after that.
No one understands him but his woman: Dobson and Reggie Jackson were the first interracial roommates in baseball history in 1968.
(A word about the back): At least one of those league-best shutouts in 1970 was pitched by Dobson on an amphetamine high.
Was Dobson safe or out in that play in #5?
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