That was the last hit for Banks during his career (obviously).
Very cool scorecard.
Edited to say:
I just went digging thru my collection and found that I have this scorecard, too. Mine is also autographed by a few players (your Fergie Jenkins trumps my Juan Pizarro) but the funny thing is that Bill Bonham must have always signed on the bat, when he could, because mine is signed in the exact same spot.
Edited again because:
It's also interesting to me, viewing from the perspective of an era when the most trivial of statistics are headline fodder, that neither scorekeeper mentioned this being the final game in Wrigley for Ernie. They wouldn't have known that it was his last game completely, because the Cubbies had three more games in 1971, but they were road games in Montreal, a city where Ernie evidently didn't feel like playing two in. But the Cubs were well out of playoff contention, and Banks was pushing 40 years old and his rapidly declining production must have sounded like a retirement after the season.
Doug
Last edited by doug.goodman; 12-31-2016 at 01:22 PM.
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