TTM Stats
- Sent: 10/19/2019 | Received: 10/26/2019 | 7 Days
- ’87 Topps, ’88 Topps, ’89 Topps, ’90 Donruss, ’90 Topps
- Address: Home (address from Sports Card Forum)
The Story of the Autograph
Tom Lawless is a former player in Major League Baseball. He played from 1982 through 1990 for the Cincinnati Reds, Montreal Expos, St. Louis Cardinals, and Toronto Blue Jays.
Lawless was born and raised in Erie Pennsylvania. He played his college baseball at Penn State Behrend from 1975-1978. The Reds drafted him in the 17th round of the 1978 MLB Draft and he would make his major league debut on July 15, 1982. He appeared in 49 games that year but wasn’t back to the majors until 1984.
That season he became the only player to ever be traded for Pete Rose when the Reds traded Lawless to the Expos for Rose straight up. He played one year for the Expos and then moved on to St. Louis. With the Cardinals he played in two World Series, but unfortunately both were losing efforts. However, Lawless did hit a big go-ahead home run in Game 4 of the 1987 World Series against the Twins. While that might not be a too much of a feat for most, Lawless had only hit two regular season home runs at that point in his career and would only have three in total in his whole career.
He moved to Toronto before retiring in 1990. He later went into coaching in the minors. In 2014 he was made the interim manager of the Astros after they fired Bo Porter.
The Score on Tom Lawless – 7.5
Tom has a pretty sweet signature. It looks like he takes his time with it. You can tell because they are… F-Lawless. *slaps knee* I really like the way he does his “T.” It almost appears to be the inverse of the “L” which I think it kind of cool.
Thanks Mr. Lawless! I’m giving this return a 7.5 overall.
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