Card fact: This is the first card in the set that shows a player without a cap (excluding the MVP subset). Will it be the only one? I don't know. I'm too lazy to look. I'll just say I want to be surprised.
What I thought about this card then: Didn't see it. No doubt, I would have thought it was cool as it was a rare candid shot.
What I think about this card now: Nice flowing mane there.
Other stuff: My main knowledge of Herrmann as a young collector was repeatedly pulling his 1978 Topps card (then with the Astros). Herrmann was one of those double-printed cards from that year.
Herrmann spent the first seven years of his career with the White Sox. In fact, this is the last card of him with the White Sox. He'd be traded to the Yankees just before the start of the 1975 and then become a journeyman catcher after that.
(EDIT: Hermann died on Dec. 22, 2013).
Back facts: The black mark in the top corner is from a marker. I didn't mark it, so I can't tell you more.
I looked up Herrmann's "three double play game" from 1972. It was against the Orioles. The White Sox actually lost the game 2-1. Pat Dobson threw a three-hitter. Dick Allen had the White Sox's only run on a homer in the first inning. Throw in Herrmann's three double plays and the fact that the game was done in 1:54, and that was one awesome 4th of July.
Other blog stuff: The No. 1 song on this date in 1975 was "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" by Freddy Fender. As a kid I always wondered why he suddenly started singing in Spanish in the middle of the song.
