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Frederick William Newman
Los Angeles Angels
Pitcher
Born: February 21, 1942, Boston, MA
Signed: Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent before 1960 season
Major League Teams: Los Angeles Angels 1962-1964; California Angels 1965-1967
Died: June 24, 1987, Framingham, MA (age 45)
Fred Newman was originally signed by his hometown Red Sox, but the club left him unprotected prior to the 1960 expansion draft and he ended up across the country with the Angels. In parts of six seasons with the Angels, Newman went 33-39 with a 3.41 ERA, pitching four complete game shutouts. A 13-game winner in 1964 and a 14-game winner in 1965, Newman's 2.75 ERA was 8th in the American League in 1964. He was the most heavily used starting pitcher for the Angels in 1965, leading the staff in games started (36) and innings pitched (260 2/3).
Newman battled arm injuries after his strong 1965 season, retiring after trying to make a comeback in the Red Sox system in 1969.
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| A socially distant 4th |
July 8, 2020 from Los Angeles, CA - Card #107
In need of some cardboard therapy as we approached the four month anniversary of the start of our social distancing, I went on a mini eBay binge the first week of July. We had a vacation planned for the last week of June, first week of July, and that vacation had been unceremoniously cancelled at some point in April. Major League Baseball was showing signs of coming back, the Black Lives Matter movement was finally gaining momentum, the pandemic showed no signs of going away any time soon and a complete lack of intelligent national leadership wasn't helping anything or anybody. I needed some old baseball cards.
17 cards arrived on July 8th, including this Newman card won from Greg Morris Cards with a winning bid of $1.11. I bid on 15 cards from Greg Morris Cards' eBay auctions, winning 7 of them. A batch of 10 more cards entered my eBay cart from Dean's Cards on the same day. Over the next several weeks, I'll review each of the 17 cards acquired, putting us just over the 20% mark for completion of our 1965 Topps set.
The Card
Newman appeared on six Topps baseball cards, and all but one of them, his 1967 Topps card, feature nothing more than a close-up of his mug. His 1967 card at least gives us some shoulders and part of a glove. On the back of the card, his seven complete games in 1964 are mentioned and his teammate Dean Chance (#140) more than doubled him up with 15 complete games. The write-up also mentions his brief time in the Red Sox organization before the Angels chose him in the expansion draft.
Angels Team Set
1965 Season
As mentioned above, Newman had a strong 1965 campaign and he along with Chance and Marcelino Lopez (#537) formed a solid trio atop the Angels' starting pitching rotation. Newman went 14-16 with a 2.93 ERA. He pitched a two-hit shutout against the Twins on June 30th and a five-hit shutout against the Red Sox on September 21st.
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First Mainstream Card: 1963 Topps #496
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (6): 1963-1969
Most Recent Mainstream Card: 1981 TCMA The 1960s II #374
18 - Newman non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 7/9/20.
Sources:
Baseball Reference
Beckett Database
The Trading Card Database
Wikipedia
Prior Card: #100 Ken Boyer - St. Louis Cardinals
Next Card: #102 Steve Boros - Cincinnati Reds
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