1970 4 Tom Egan
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| Tom Egan |
In the early 1970's, players from the American League were mostly unknown to me - except for the big stars and the members of the AL World Series teams. The Angels would not make the playoffs until 1979. Until then, they were conspicuous in their anonymity to a young National League fan. I thought of Angels cards the same way I thought of cards from the Indians, the White Sox, the Brewers and other perennial losing teams in that League. Players like Tom Egan were just filler in the packs that prevented me from getting Pirate cards and stars like Willie Mays and Johnny Bench.
The back of the card has two entries from the PCL. Egan played on the Hawaii Islanders that eventually received attention both in Jim Bouton's book and the biography of Harry Kalas (It was famous for much more than being discussed in a few books). Kalas was the play-by-play man for the Hawaii team during or shortly before Egan's time there. The Seattle team was replaced by the Pilots in 1969 as Seattle transitioned to a major league city - eventually leaving the PCL with one fewer western location.
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