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!
