Who is the man: Both Greg Luzinski and Scott Reid spent most of the 1970 season shooting up minor league ball. Luzinski battered Double A while Reid blasted Triple A. Both had brief stints with the Phillies, but Luzinski hit .167 and Reid .122.
Can ya dig it: Luzinski looks like The Bull even at 20 years old.
Right on: It's interesting that Luzinski is listed as a first baseman. He would play first base only in his first two years with the Phillies, and then for a handful of games with the White Sox in 1983.
You see these rookies are bad mothers: Luzinski would go on to hit 307 career home runs but at this point he had none. Sorry, not bad-ass.
Shut your mouth: Reid's major league career was already done when this card was made.
No one understands him but his woman: Jean Luzinski dated and married a talented football player who went in the first round of the major league draft (Greg) and raised a talented football player who went in the first round of the major league draft (Ryan).
(A word about the back): Topps doesn't tell you which college team Scott Reid played for, but it was Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif. He then went to Arizona State.
Luzinski was a 1st baseman in the minors, but with Deron Johnson already at 1st base, the Phillies converted Luzinski to LF.
ReplyDeleteAnd they had occasion to regret the shift to left come playoff time a few years later!
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