This card give you a good view of the first version of the infamous Astros uniform of the 1970’s… “Rainbow”, “Tequila Sunrise”, fugly as all get-out, call it what you will.
Some of the “features” which would get eliminated within a year or so were the white circle on the back and the “1970’s Computer-y” uniform numbers on the back and on the right thigh.
I grew up in the 1970’s, I love a lot of the bright colors introduced to baseball in the 70’s… but even I look at this uniform and say “Oh, my God…”
I tend to think of Greg Gross with the Phillies, so it’s odd to see him in orange, especially without the glasses and facial hair. Gross was a starting outfielder for the Astros from 1974 to 1976, and in 1974 he was named to the Topps Rookie All-Star team and was the Sporting News N.L. Rookie Of The Year (Bake McBride was the “official” NL ROY).
The Shlabotnik Report 