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Eddie Murray, 1987 Topps Name: Eddie Murray

Team: Baltimore Orioles
Positions: First base, motionless
Value of card: $3 ticket to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Key 1986 stats: Zero hits, zero RBIs, zero movements
The stand-in: Before the days of unrestrained free agency and contracts that surpass the gross domestic products of small countries, Eddie Murray was making a little over $900,000 on a struggling team. He was a perennial all-star and a jovial guy in the clubhouse, so it was understandable he felt he deserved a bigger contract. But the Orioles brass disagreed, and a chasm grew between the spectacled superstar and the flailing franchise. Murray told team leaders he wouldn't play; team leaders said they wouldn't pay. But the dispute went on behind closed doors and outside the media. When Murray went to the Bahamas instead of spring training, the Orioles did the only sensible thing: They commissioned an artist to create a lifelike wax sculpture of Murray, seen above, which the Orioles played at first base and batted fifth in the order. This facade went on for weeks, until the Florida sun melted the doppelganger, leaving only a pile of fake hair, a gigantic pair of glasses and arms made of trash bags. Labels: 1987 Topps, Afro, Bulge, Facial hair, Glasses, Hall of Famer, Orioles

