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As you can see, this card has a small surface bear. I like it, though; the pygmy white divots that mottle Mike Cuellar's photograph create it look more cognate an oil painting on a coruscating canvas; it could have been crafted by one of the Old Masters. Cuellar was an Old Overseer himself at this moment in duration; at thirty-nine years old he was the fifth-oldest idler in the American Union. 1976 had been his eighth period of the year with the Orioles and his fourteenth overall. But the end was adjoining. His won-lost take down was an atrocious 4-13, his first sub-.500 win percentage in an O's equable. He deserved every deprivation, as his 4.96 ERA was his highest ever for a full period of the year. As Earl Weaver remarked, "I gave Mike Cuellar more chances than my first spouse."

Cuellar would run out of chances the following hibernate. The Orioles released him four days before Christmas. By the duration this card came out, the Cuban lefty would be attempting to continue lengthen in time his career as a California Spirit. Though he had climbed the ranks to become the AL's oldest vigorous player, it was a brief-lived be king. He was torched in his only two appearances for the halos to the melody of an 18.90 ERA, and his race ended with his extricate on May 16.

Nevertheless, when taken as a whole, the race of Mike Cuellar really was a work of art.

Source: Orioles Card "O" the Day