#19 - Ken Suarez Hatless Ken in a jersey that just screams Indians, right?
#20 - Ernie Banks Ernie gets his own post tomorrow
#21 - Jose Santiago This is a pretty nice looking card. Everything matches!
#22 - Jesus Alou The two other Alou brothers were on the National League batting leader card and poor Jesus is hatless and on his way to Montreal.
#23 - Lew Krausse This pose and uniform look just like Indian Ken Suarez. But why is Lew hatless? He wasn't traded. Oh yeah, Topps only has pictures of him with a KC A's hat, so it is either hatless or airbrushed.
#24 - Walt Alston Our second Hall of Famer. Walt's card number and uniform number are the same. I wonder how often that has happened.
#25 - Roy White A nice looking card of Roy in his Yankee pinstripes taken at the original Yankee Stadium.
#26 - Clay Carroll This card takes the early lead for ugliest of the set. No hat, wrong uniform (he is in a Braves uniform) and that weird look on his face combine to make one really bad card.
#27 - Bernie Allen Bernie is in a nice pose at spring training, in a uniform the Senators last wore in 1967 (although it is possible they wore these at spring training in 1968 and didn't break out the new unis until opening day).
Overall Set Totals (player cards only)
Hall of Famers - 2
Hatless - 7
Airbrush - 1
Cubs (includes past, present, or future) - 1
I say the Alston number thing didn't happen too often. Of course, Topps changed that with its infatuation with Mickey Mantle. Topps has ruined No. 7 for millions of Yankee haters.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't even count the Mickey Mantle thing. Topps sure does know how to run something into the ground.
ReplyDeleteThey all look a lot older than baseballers today. Or am I only saying that because I know the cards came into being before I was born?
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