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Given that he spent from the middle of the 1967 season through the middle of the 1972 campaign with the Astros, there's very little color of this lefty (and drive by joke in a Will Ferrell SNL sketch 20 years later). This is probably from 1970 rather than 1969 as the Astro patch seems to be on the left sleeve (instead of the 1969 Baseball 100th Anniversity logo, with the Astro patch shifted to the right sleeve).