Baseball Card Trivia Question
 

I've been posting these from time to time. Got two for you. One I consider easy, and the other will make you look through your collections until you come up with the answer (I hate trivia questions that can easily be looked up on the internet). So, starting with the easy one:
1) Only one player (Postwar pre-1980) has appeared in the same set as an all-star; with a Topps Rookie Trophy; and on a League Leader card. Name him.
2) Two players on the same Topps Rookie Stars card (Postwar pre 1980) were both later featured as all-stars in the same set. This actually happened twice. Name the Rookie Stars cards (year and players), and name the year these guys were later featured as all-stars in the same set.

First one sounds like the Bird!

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For second question, is only the RC pre-1980 or is that true of all the cards?

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Possible some of the all-star cards were post 1980

Correct... but don't be too proud of yourself; that was the easy one.

I assume Molitor Trammell and Murphy Parrish are too easy and thus wrong?

Molitor and Trammell never appeared on all-star cards in the same set. Murphy and Parrish however, both were Topps all-stars in the 1985 set. One down. One more Topps Rookie Stars card to identify.

trying to think of weird ones like Scioscia/Valenzuela or Baker/Baylor, Fisk/Cooper?

Not the answer to the question but the Cey/Schmidt RC generated quite a few all-star cards.

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NM read question wrong.

It did, but obviously both being 3B, never were all-stars in the same set. Last card is pretty cool and easily forgotten (apparently).

Okay, got it. Rather than answer I will drop a hint for others. 1976 Oakland A's.

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Dale Murphy and Lance Parrish were on the same "rookie" card even though Murphy had appeared the year before in 1977. Pretty sure they were all stars at the same time.

I looked at that card and forgot Tenace was an All-Star.

1970 Topps #21 Vida Blue & Gene Tenace
Both All Stars in 1976 Topps Set.

Too late as usual.

Best trivia is (are?) the questions you can't immediately look up on-line. Good job fellas!

One time, in 1985. Correct.

Murphy and Parrish are pretty high up on the list of All-Star appearances by non-HOFers, at least among eligible non-PED guys. Murphy had 7, and Parrish had 8.

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yeah kinda hard to both be all-stars the same season!

You guys sayin Topps would never go with two NL All-Star 3B the same year??Wanna bet? [emoji6]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d92d7fb98c.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...2bce1ac800.jpg

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Is Willie McCovey the only player to appear on a rookie card and an All Star card the same year?

This isn't actually correct. Rose started the 1975 as a RF and therefore was on the AS ballot as a RF and started the game in RF. He switched to 3B during the year, therefore his 1976 card correctly identifies him as both, a 3B (which he currently was) and an All Star (which he was the previous year, only as a RF.

One other guy... Mark Fidrych.

Here's one to which I don't know the answer. What player appears on the most cards in a single year. Base card, AS, WS, MVP, leaders, other multiple player cards (e.g. Managers Dream), and any picture on a checklist all count. It must be Mantle or Mays but I have no clue.

Wild guess, but Mantle has a slew of cards in the 1961 set.

Ted Williams appears a bunch of times in the 1959 Fleer set.

Going just with regular issue Topps, here are Aaron's biggest years:

1974 - 7 (counting 5 Hank Aaron Specials)
1958 - 4
1959 - 4
1961 - 3
1973 - 3
1975 - 3

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Okay seriously. Excluding Babe Ruth appearing 10 times in the 1962 set, and all the Hank Aaron specials in the 1974 set, and I'd exclude team cards as well, 1961 Mantle is a good guess (he has 5) but Yaz shows up on 7 cards in the 1968 Topps set. Regular, All-Star, 3 Leader Cards, World Series Card, and Checklist. Can anyone think of a player legitimately appearing on more than 7 in one set?

In addition to Yaz with 7 cards in 1968, Bob Gibson has 7 cards in 1969: Regular, All-Star, 3 League Leaders, World Series, Checklist. Gibson is actually mentioned on an 8th card, World Series Game 4 "Brock Leadoff Homerun" (picture of Brock) followed by "Gibson Wins 7th in a Row" though since Brock is featured, not Gibson, I wouldn't count that.

Mantle is on 5 in 62 as well. Base, AS, HR Leaders, Managers Dream, Switch Hitter Connects.

Seaver in 1972 and Frank Robinson in 1967 both have 6, but I'm fairly certain that nobody will beat the 7 that 1968 Yaz and 1969 Gibson are legitimately featured on.

If you counted the Yaz puzzle on the backs of the 1968 TSN All-Stars, which is not a huge stretch, you could add another 9 cards to his count!

lol

Please lead your post with "Spoiler alert" Randy. I'm three cards/pieces short and was really looking forward to solving the puzzle.:rolleyes: