I come across this image of Joan Jett with a baseball bat on her shoulder a few times while bumping around the 'net but, for some reason, it never dawned on me to make a card using the picture until recently I saw it captioned with the year it was taken, which was 1977. Light bulb moment, 1977 Topps baseball.
Upon doing a little research on Joan Jett I found out she's a huge Baltimore Orioles fan which is something I didn't know prior and lent well to the factoid area on the reverse on the '77 Topps card back design.
She's sung the anthem at Orioles home games on several occasions. I can remember her dropping by the broadcast booth once when Mel Proctor and John Lowenstein were their crew. Brother Low was quite taken with her.
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