Page 9 - At The Bat Rack Frankenset

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Rules -

9 different players
9 different card sets
9 different teams
player is at the bat rack (or bat pile) in or near the dugout
Have fun (most important)

PAGE NINE!

And the Backs . . . 

73 - Greg Walker 1984 Fleer

74 - Ruben Rivera 1998 Pinnacle Inside

75 - Yangervis Solarte 2016 Topps Heritage

76 - Travis Hafner 2007 Upper Deck First Edition

77 - Babe Ruth 2016 Leaf Babe Ruth

78 - Denard Span 2017 Stadium Club

79 - Matt Olsen 2017 Stadium Club

80 - Gregg Jefferies 1995 Collector's Choice SE

81 - Hank Greenberg 1976 Shakey's Pizza Baseball's Greatest Players

Well, this page needs a little work - Greg Walker is in the dugout with a bat leaning on the bench, so it's a bit of a stretch to call it a bat rack card. Yangervis Solarte is blocking the bats with his body, and Denard Span is on the opposite side of the dugout from the bat rack (though you can at least see it in the distance). Would like to find an alternate for the Span card mostly because there are two cards from 2017 Stadium Club on the same page.

The Hank Greenberg is my favorite on this page, just because it's fun to root for the oddball card sets.

On This Day . . .

Willie Mays makes "The Catch" in 1954.

1920: Ruth hits home run number 54 to demolish the single season record for HRs
1927: Ruth ties his own record for HRs in a season; he would break his own record the following day.
1934: Ruth hits his final homer in a Yankee uniform, his 659th with the Bombers, the 708th of his career.

1978: Jim Rice hits a double and a single in a game vs. Toronto, becoming the 1st major leaguer to amass 400 total bases in a season since Joe DiMaggio did it in 1936.

1986: The Flying Dutchman serves up home runs number 47, 48, and 49 in a game against his former club in Cleveland - setting the major league record for most homers allowed in a season.

2013: Henderson Alvarez surprises the Tigers, tossing a no-hitter in the final game of the season. Tigers starter Justin Verlander tossed a shutout of his own in opposition, but the bullpen coughed up a run in the bottom of the ninth with a wild pitch that scored Giancarlo Stanton. It was the 6th time in baseball history that a no-hitter ended in walk off fashion.

Birthday buddies! Long time teammates Craig Lefferts and Tim Flannery, fellow Padre Heath Bell, and un-fellow non-Padre Jake Westbrook.

Other notable moments - 
Stan Musial made his MLB pitching debut, retiring the one batter he faced in 1952.

John Paciorek plays in his first and only major league game for the Houston Colt .45s, goes 3 for 3, and finishes his MLB career with a perfect 1.000 average. He fails to qualify for the 1963 batting title, however....

Hall of Fame Manager Casey Stengel passes away in 1975, at the age of 85.

The Expos play their final game in Montreal in 2004 - it was announced hours earlier that the team would move to Washington, D.C.

In 2008, rookie Alexei Ramirez hits a grand slam for the White Sox, forcing a one game playoff. The Sox would win that game and advance to face the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALDS.