Tuesday, July 7, 2015

#180 Charley Maxwell



#180 Charley Maxwell
Progress: 1st of this card
138 of 407  33.9% complete
How acquired: $1.67 on ebay
Condition: Fair

There's not much to nitpick about with this card.  The line on the back seems rather arbitrary, but I'm sure someone had a reason for it at some point.  For reasons I can't quite explain, I find this card to be very off putting.  It's a combination of the picture, Charley's face, and the yellow background.  None the less, Mr. Maxwell had an excellent career, over fourteen seasons he was named to two All-Star teams and finished in the AL Top Ten for Home runs on four occassions.

Stats: 14 Seasons, 2x All-Star, 856 hits, 148 HR's 

Best Hall of Fame Showing: N/A

Inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1997

1 comment:

  1. Card companies could never decide if he was 'Charley' or 'Charlie'. My father always griped about how he killed his Yankees but Maxwell had a reputation as a great 'Sunday' player. Since we always attended Yankee Stadium on Sunday that may be what was behind my father's angst.

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