Earlier this season, the Red Sox honored their 1975 AL championship team by playing a pair of games in spot-on '75 throwback uniforms, complete with pullover jerseys, elastic waistbands, red hats and striped socks. Even the lettering, ever-so-slightly different from the current uniforms, is reproduced with 100 percent accuracy. Which is good, because bitching about inaccurate throwbacks might be the Internet's favorite pastime.
Presented here is the first batch of '75 Topps-style cards of the Sox in their throwbacks. Parts 2 and 3 will appear over the next week or so.
And yes, I know the real '75s show pictures of the '74 Sox in their blue hats (the red hats didn't debut until the '75 season, after the cards were printed), but I opted to use the kick-arse '75 design anyway. I also slightly faded and pixelated the photos to give them more of a '70s Topps feel. Unlike the real 75s, these lack facsimile autographs. Just like the real '75s, there are centering issues.
Two other things:
1) Brock Holt has to be the only player with an "IF-OF" all-star designation on a baseball card;
2) Am I the only one who thinks Ryan Hanigan looks like that guy in Zack and Miri Make a Porno?
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