Postwar Topps Baseball Card Trivia

[Gr8Beldini]

Tough questions (in my opinion). Lets see how you do...

1. While it was not unusual for Topps to reuse photos on their cards back in the day, they reused the same photo of this guy... 7 years apart. Who?
2. In the postwar era (pre-1980) there were 4 Cy Young winners that had regular issue Topps cards with different teams the year they won the award. No tricks. Name the 4 guys.
3. Speaking of Cy Young Award winners, during the Postwar era (pre 1980) there was never a Topps set with more than 2 rookie cards of future Cy Young award winners... except for one set that had 4. Name the set and the 4 players. We're talking legit rookie cards here.
4. Same question, only with MVP winners; Generally, there was never a postwar era Topps set with more than 2 rookie cards of future MVP winners - 3 exceptions to this: one set had 5!!!; one set had 4; and one set had 3. Name the sets and corresponding future MVP RC's. No tricks. We're talking legit RC's (52T Mantle, 56T Howard, 52 Topps Mays are not legit RC's).
5. Postwar Topps Rookie of the Year question: Name the 2 rookie of the Year Award winners that had Topps cards with different teams the year before they won the award.

[brewing]

3. Has to be 1965. I can only think of 3. McLain, Hunter, and Carlton
4. 1955 has Koufax, Clemente, and Killebrew
1975 has Rice, Lynn, Brett, Yount, and Hernandez
I can't think of another
5. Lou Pinella is one. Can't think of the other.

[nolemmings]

Has to be 1965. I can only think of 3. McLain, Hunter, and Carlton

+Lonborg

[Gr8Beldini]

#3 is closed out (1965 w/ Hunter, Carlton, McLain, and Lonborg.
#4 is partially correct: 1975 was the set with RCs of 5 future MVPs.
Still looking for the set with 4 and the set with 3 future MVP's (the set w/ 3 is very tough). Anyone?

[nolemmings]

5. Lou Pinella is one. Can't think of the other.

+ Tommie Agee

[Gr8Beldini]

#5 closed out w/ Pinella and Agee.

[brewing]

1955 has rc's of 3 future MVP winners.
Koufax won in 1963
Clemente won in 1966
Killebrew won in 1969



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[Cliff Bowman]

1. Wally Wolf, 1963 and 1970?

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by brewing

1955 has rc's of 3 future MVP winners.
Koufax won in 1963
Clemente won in 1966
Killebrew won in 1969
Tapatalk

Actually 1955 Topps was the set with four RC's of future MVP's. C'mon... the last guy, while harder than Koufax, Clemente, Killebrew, is get-able.
The set with 3 RC's of MVP's is much tougher.

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

1. Wally Wolf, 1963 and 1970?

He shared the 63 card with three other players and again in 1970 he shared his card with another rookie.

[quitcrab]

Is it Elston Howard from the 1955 set?

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

1. Wally Wolf, 1963 and 1970?

#1 is closed out (see below)

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by quitcrab

Is it Elton Howard from the 1955 set?

Negative. Elston's rookie card is in the 55 Bowman set. This is a Topps question.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini

Actually 1955 Topps was the set with four RC's of future MVP's. C'mon... the last guy, while harder than Koufax, Clemente, Killebrew, is get-able.
The set with 3 RC's of MVP's is much tougher.

1955 Ken Boyer.

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini

Actually 1955 Topps was the set with four RC's of future MVP's. C'mon... the last guy, while harder than Koufax, Clemente, Killebrew, is get-able.
The set with 3 RC's of MVP's is much tougher.

1955 - Ken Boyer is the fourth guy.

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

1955 Ken Boyer.

Cool. We now know the set w/ 5 RC's of MVPs and the one with RC's of 4 MVP's. Which set had 3?

[nolemmings]

1971. Foster, Garvey & Baylor

[Cliff Bowman]

2. 1967 Mike McCormick, 1972 Steve Carlton, 1974 Mike Marshall, 1978 Gaylord Perry.

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

1971. Foster, Garvey & Baylor

This closes out question #4

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

2. 1967 Mike McCormick, 1972 Steve Carlton, 1974 Mike Marshall, 1978 Gaylord Perry.

This closes out question #2 and closes out my quiz.

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini

This closes out question #2 and closes out my quiz.

Great questions Gr8Beldini. Very difficult.

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by Samsdaddy

Great questions Gr8Beldini. Very difficult.

...yet the panel answered them all inside 20 minutes.

[hangman62]

1) How many " two player rookie cards " was Lou Piniella on ?

[Rich Klein]

1964, 1968 and 1969 -- all with different teams no less: Senators, Indians and Pilots

[whiteymet]

Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini

#1 is closed out (see below)

I don't believe #1 IS closed.

Topps used the same photo of Bob Miller Phillies in the 52 set and with the Cardinals in the 59 set. Same 7 years if my math is correct.

Fred

[nolemmings]

Speaking of Cy Young Award winners, during the Postwar era (pre 1980) there was never a Topps set with more than 2 rookie cards of future Cy Young award winners... except for one set that had 4. Name the set and the 4 players. We're talking legit rookie cards here.

1959? Mike Cuellar, Jim Perry and Bob Gibson.

[Rich Klein]

Gibson Perry and Cuellar are all Hi #'s IIRC

[the 'stache]

Poo. I missed out on this. The '75 set would have popped into my head right away, but the others would have taken some thinking.

More please I'll try to make it on before 4 am, heh heh.

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

1959? Mike Cuellar, Jim Perry and Bob Gibson.

You are right. When I was figuring this stuff out in my head (and a notepad) I put Jim Perry's RC in the 60 set. '59 is correct - still makes '65 as the only set w/ 4 Cy Young RCs, but the question stated that "no other set had more than 1 RC of a future Cy Young winner. You proved me inaccurate on this one.

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

I don't believe #1 IS closed.

Topps used the same photo of Bob Miller Phillies in the 52 set and with the Cardinals in the 59 set. Same 7 years if my math is correct.

Fred

This is why I was careful to not say, "only guy with the same picture 7 years apart..." I figured that there might have more than one or even one with a greater time between.

[nolemmings]

You are right. When I was figuring this stuff out in my head (and a notepad) I put Jim Perry's RC in the 60 set. '59 is correct - still makes '65 as the only set w/ 4 Cy Young RCs, but the question stated that "no other set had more than 1 RC of a future Cy Young winner. You proved me inaccurate on this one.

No problem, and thanks for the brain teasers. Actually, I think there is another Topps set with 3 RCs of eventual Cy Young winners. 1976 had Ron Guidry, Mike Flanagan and Dennis Eckersley. Some may consider Eck's SSPC card to be his rookie, but that was unlicensed and, contrary to popular belief, was likely issued in 1976 and not 1975 anyway.

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini

...yet the panel answered them all inside 20 minutes.

We are ready for more in the future!