Saturday, October 15, 2022

1971 "BASEBALL'S GREATEST MOMENTS" EXTENSION SET

Good day everyone!

I thought it would be fun to finally start adding to the all-time greatest Topps oddball set: 1971's "Baseball's Greatest Moments", which is one of the rarest and hard to find sub-sets of "recent" times.
It had a very limited checklist with many of the game's best stars missing, so I'll start it off today with a card for all-time Frank Robinson celebrating his 1966 triple crown season:



Really a fun set to start building on, though I'l be hard pressed to print this up as a custom set in the future because of it's unique size.
Robinson's 1966 campaign was a thing of sweet justice, as he was supposedly traded to the Baltimore Orioles from the Cincinnati reds because he was an "old 30" according to Cincinnati management.
Well, all the man did was give the Orioles a triple crown year where he led the American League with 122 runs scored, 49 homers, 122 runs batted in and a .316 batting average, as well as a .410 on-base, .637 slugging percentage and 367 total bases.
That all got him an A.L. MVP Award by season's end, the first player to ever with the award in both leagues, while also leading the surprising young team to a shocking World Series victory over the favored reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
To call that "sweet revenge" would be an understatement!
Easily the most underappreciated player in the game's long history, with St. Louis Cardinal legend Stan Musial a close second in my opinion!
Anyway, look for more of these 1971 "Greatest Moments" additions in the near future!