CLOSED...1971 Topps Progressive Auction - Day 10

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Day two brings us three pitchers and an second sacker. For some reason, I thought Clyde Wright was one of the Angels that died tragically, which seemed to happen to them once a year, with regularity. But no, I had him mixed up with somebody else. Wright had one great year, and a couple pretty good ones, and then he was pretty much done. He's one of the few pitchers that have had a 20-win season, and a 20-loss season, and threw a no-hitter in there, just for fun. He lost the All-Star game in 1970, when Pete Rose crashed into Ray Fosse, then never made another one. In the crazy coincidence category, Wright's got his final out of his no-hitter when Felipe Alou grounded out to Sandy Alomar for a double play. The reason that it's sort of weird is that all three guys involved in the play had sons that would go on to play in the bigs. As a matter of fact, Jaret Wright, Sandy Alomar, Jr, and Moises Alou all appeared together in the 1997 World Series. Funny how the stars align sometimes...