July 31, 1970 Twins vs Tigers lineup card.

A ton happened in this game:

• Bob Allison final career Home Run
• Bert Blyleven rookie start (12th career start)
• HOF Tony Oliva HR (149th of his career)

Bonds 600th HR
 

Looking to move this one if anyone is interested.https://ibb.co/PxNymzP

Happy to grab Kershaw's Win #13.

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A lineup card and a question.

First, the question: What do folks know about MLB authenticated replica lineup cards signed by managers? Were they mass produced? Limited quantities? Just wondering what is known. Thanks.

Kershaw's win #4. Finding the game-used lineup card has been easier than finding a ticket stub!

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sounds odd the the future game are awesome line up cards. Especially when years later you can see who made it and who did not

It's amazing how many never make it at all, and how few become stars. (Obviously there's a lot of space in between those two)

David Ortiz final career home run. I have final career HR's for other players (most natably Carl Yastrzemski), but no one in the 500 HR club.

very cool piece of history.

Thank you! Lineup cards are a primary focus of my collection (as this thread can attest to lol). It is rare to be able to find a milestone like this one - the final homerun of a member of the 500 HR club.

Rare and super cool!

Umpire and Press Box lineup cards from the final game of the 1978 season for the Padres.

The game was significant for a number of reasons:

• In this game, Gaylord Perry became just the 3rd pitcher of all time (after Walter Johnson and Bob Feller) to strike out 3,000 batters. To this day, there are far fewer pitchers with 3,000 strikeouts than hitters with 3,000 hits
• This game marked the first time that Ozzie Smith (who was a rookie in 1978) did his trademark back flip. There is a cool SABR article about this
• The game featured 2 future 300 win/3000 K pitchers facing off against each other (Perry against Don Sutton). Perry would also win the Cy Young in 1978, adn this was obviously his final start of the season.

I bought a lot of Padres-related lineup cards years ago but was unaware of Perry's feat at the time. Maybe a year ago I learned of it, but searching through my collection, could never find these, and worried that I might have sold them.

I recently moved, and somehow, they turned up now.

Edit: Not sure why they are sideways. The files on my computer are not sideways.

Great stuff everyone!

I’d like to find a vintage Reds line-up card from late 60s - mid 70s.

Here’s one that’s been on eBay for quite a while. I like the fact that it’s very clean, done in pen (not carbon copied) and features the infancy of the Big Red Machine….

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155081976576

But this is outside of my wheelhouse. We can all see what the seller is asking, but can Jeff (or the other experts here) tell me what it’s actually worth?

It’s a game that the Reds lost, and I could not see anything of significance that occurred in this game. Thanks for any help the forum can provide!

First date & 20th anniversary present
 

Just for fun, here is a completely different way to showcase a dugout lineup card.
My wife Mary and I went to a Tigers baseball game for our 1st date about 33 years ago...

They absolutely smoked the Bronx Bombers that day! Our seats were right along the 1st baseline on the railing next to the visitor's bullpen. I still recall HOF Goose Gossage warming up in front of us, huffing and puffing and absolutely making the catcher's mitt pop with every fastball.

Ironically, almost 20 years later, I saw that a guy on the East Coast was selling a lot of Tigers dugout cards to games in the same era as our 1st date. I didn't see the dugout card to our game, so I sent the seller a message. I gave him the game date and told him what the personal significance was. Amazingly, he had the dugout card and actually sold it to me for $25!!! Unreal :cool:

With our 20th anniversary right around the corner, I incorporated the dugout card into a unique gift to my wife that included the dugout card, wedding photos and a business card from a French restaurant that we went to on our 2nd date. This piece sits on the mantel above our fireplace still to this day. :)

Scott, Now that is cool!

Pricing items like these are exceedingly difficult because it is nearly impossible to find another one. Personally, I'm a buyer on basically any vintage lineup card (and have been for quite a few years), and I don't own a standard non-carbon copy lineup card from that era (I do have a few from the mid-1950's that all came in one lot and I have carbon copies from Game 4 of the 1976 World Series, but believe I have just 1 carbon copy lineup card from a regular season game from that era.

If I was going to say a range I think is reasonable, I would think $100-$200 in auction, but if the right people saw it, it could easily go for quite a bit more.

Thank you, Jeff!

Fantastic piece all around!!

It's been a relatively quiet few months, but I was able to acquire two significant pieces in the last couple of weeks.

This is probably the bigger of the two. Opening Day 1982.

Ripken would go on to win Rookie of the Year. And while he had played a few games in 1981, this game featured a number of 1sts:

First career multi-hit game (he had 3 hits), 1st career RBI, 1st career extra basehit, 1st career double and 1st career career homerun.

The last one is obviously of the most note. Ripken would go on to set the record for most homeruns by a shortstop.

I don't believe I've shared this here before. Zack Greinke's MLB debut.

If anyone has any lineup cards from significant games that they wouldn't mind parting with, please keep me in mind.

Lineup card from Jack Morris's 1st career win.

Interestingly, Morris's name never appeared on the lineup from when it was used, since the lineup card only includes hitters, and they had the DH. (The relief pitchers and changes are similarly not mentioned.) Thankfully, the large signature and inscription makes it clear. I do wish they had not messed up on the placement of the JSA sticker. Debating on taking it off and moving it to the back. (Not super worried to have it on the lineup card at all, since I don't think anyone would really suspect it isn't legit.)

Edit: Not sure why some pictures get rotated in the upload.

I'm really enjoying this thread. I've been lurking for a while but I guess I will participate. Here is the Oakland A's dugout lineup card from Ken Griffey Jr's MLB debut. He recorded his 1st career hit in this game when he hit a double in his 1st at-bat. I forgot to mention that this was also Omar Vizquel's MLB debut.

I mostly collect game worn jerseys so I'm not as knowledgeable about lineup cards. Jeff, any idea what something like this is worth?

Very cool! I sent you a pm with some info.

2000 World Series (Subway Series) game 3. Was the Mets only win of the series.

I had never seen a lineup card that looked like this before and bought it a few years back based on instinct. A little while ago a buddy (and member here) who is writing a book on lineup cards was in touch with the Hall-of-Fame about lineup cards that they have, and they had one of the other games from the series in the identical format/style, which validated my assumption.

Lou Whitaker's final career game

Vintage Yankees lineup card

Epic!

Can you pin it to any specific game?

Thanks! I believe the only exact lineup match is May 19, 1959. The game was a 6-3 loss to the Tigers. Mantle and Berra each had a hit and Norm Siebern homered.

Another manager who is in the Hall of Fame. This one not for his managing prowess...

1981 World Series clinching game

Ken Griffey Jr 400th career HR

Does anyone else have any lineup cards to post? I feel like I've been hogging the space...

Lineup card from David Ortiz's 4th career game.

• 1st career start (first time penciled into the lineup)
• 2 & 3rd career hits (1st multi-hit game)
• 1st career RBI

In honor of his election to the HOF.

8/2/1996

For Rolen this was:

• 3rd career game
• 1st multihit game (he had 3 hits)
• 1st career RBI (2 RBI's)
• 1st career run
• 2nd career XBH

The one game managerial career of Elrod Hendricks was on May 18, but he signed this card the next day when Frank Robinson is credited with being the manager.

The last of the 8 games that Duffy Dyer managed, and his only one with the A's, also the first career win for Jose Bautista.

Very cool! I find replacement managers as a fascinating niche with lineup cards. I have a few games with similar situations.

Doug...my memory was telling me that Hendricks managed a handful of games in '88 while Frank Robinson was hospitalized with back problems.

I checked the Orioles '89 Media Guide and saw that Elrod twice substituted for Frank that season...4 games from May 18-20 (where yours fits in) and again from July 15-28.

In June 1985, after Joe Altobelli was dismissed and Earl was re-hired, Cal Ripken Sr. was "interim" manager for one game (which he was credited for) while Earl made his way north to meet the club.

So this was technically Sr.'s MLB managerial debut:

https://i.imgur.com/Ga0Sydp.jpg

Aha, that makes sense. Retrosheet doesn't list any of those other games.

Went through my Orioles lineup cards today & did find I had an Elrod managerial example as well:


https://i.imgur.com/Qh9JQ4Z.jpg

Hey Bill,

Your Orioles lineup card collection is super impressive! How many do you have? Did you mostly pick these up one at a time, or acquire a large collection at some point?

Thank you Jeff...

Coming from you that's high praise! I probably have 100 or so and I've been mainly collecting them one at a time (shows, SCD, eBay, auctions, etc.) for the past 30 plus years.....

I realize this isn't a lineup card per se (but is somewhat related), so with the Super Bowl over & Patrick Mahomes being named the MVP, I thought I'd share this...

Back in '94 as Cal Ripken Jr. was approaching his 2000th consecutive games (which would make him only the 2nd player in MLB history to do so), I wrote a letter to Tom Mee, who was the Official Scorer of the Twins and asked him if he could please send me the Press Box Notes from the game.

Not only did he send me the notes BUT he also included his original scoresheets from the game (which I was thrilled to receive).

The starting pitcher for the Twins that night was one Pat Mahomes, who pitched a strong eight innings in a losing cause...

I later professionally matted/framed the score sheets with an original picture from the Minneapolis Star Review, a signed game ticket & an original AP teletype of the event:

https://i.imgur.com/1Ps0tCd.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6JxSJLB.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/vP7cP4X.jpg

That scorecard is extremely cool, and the framed piece looks really good!

Being able to find so many Orioles ones, including so many significant games, is remarkable!

I've been lucky enough to find some significant lineup cards, but that is in part because I'm not particular, and pretty much am interested in any significant lineup card. If my focus was one team or one player, my collection would be tiny.

I posted the record setting game in another thread after I was able to photomatch it.

Ripken's record tying and setting game. Orioles dugout lineup cards.

Jeff

Those lineup cards are fantastic!

Here is the Twins dugout lineup card (signed/inscribed) from Cal's 3000th Career Hit in 2000. Not only was it a significant game in his career, but it holds a lot of personal memories for me as well (since I was there).

In April when most of my buddies were planning trips to Hilton Head and the like, I was planning a trip to Minneapolis on the CHANCE that I'd see Cal get the milestone hit (going into the series, he was four hits shy).

Friday night he got a hit and for the Saturday game he needed three hits because unbeknownst to me, he wasn't playing Sunday b/c the Orioles would have preferred he got it at home (which due to a work commitment I was unable to attend).

The baseball gods must have been looking down at me since after making an out in his first AB, he got the three hits he needed in the next three AB's:

https://i.imgur.com/FoGBtYY.jpg

Mussina
 

Back to back complete game shutouts against the Minnesota Twins for Mike Mussina.

Discovered that this was also Sparky Anderson's final game. (And at the time, there were questions on whether Alan Trammell would continue playing, though he did return for another season)

Fun pair of lineup cards from the 1993 All-Star Game week.

Here's more info about the game:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs...139-story.html

Loads of HOFers including:

• Lou Brock
• Billy Williams
• Ernie Banks
• Bob Gibson
• Juan Marichal
• Gaylord Perry
• Ferguson Jenkins
• Reggie Jackson
• Brooks Robinson
• Bob Feller
• Jim Palmer
• Rollie Fingers
• Manager Earl Weaver

I had overlooked this post before, but just found it.

You outbid me on this one. Congrats on the pickup.

My 1st lineup card June 12th 1980 lineup card signed by Dick Williams, Expos win 9-1 to remain in 1st place a game and a half over the Pittsburgh Pirates, Most importantly in this game is that 24 year old Charlie Lea in his MLB Debut pitches 8 strong innings giving up 8 hits and 1 earn run to pickup his 1st career win,less then a year later on May 10th 1981 Charlie would electrify Expos fans by throwing the 1st no-hitter at Olympic Stadium in Montreal

Cool lineup card from the 2nd game of a doubleheader on April 27, 1975

• Hank Aaron final season
• Robin Yount 6th career HR
• Catfish Hunter's 1st win as a Yankee

yesterday was the 25th anniversary of Cal Ripken Jr. playing in his 2500th consecutive game:

https://i.imgur.com/zDWP417.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Nl7cRwX.jpg

That's awesome!

Sal the Barber Maglie 1956 No-hitter
 

Maglie came over from the dark side (the NY Giants), and was a major factor in the Brooklyn Dodgers winning the pennant in 1956. In the radio recap of the no-hitter, Vin Scully made it perfectly clear that Maglie had “repaid all the grief and all the sorrow he has brought to the Brooklyn borough.”

Quite a line-up that day for the Dodgers, with 5 HOF'ers, plus Gilliam, Furillo, and Amoros (the hero of game 7 of the 1955 WS), plus Maglie.

Jeff, the scrapbook paper came off the backs (grudgingly), just leaving some discoloring from the glue. I was a little worried I would lose the printed ground rules on the back of the Dodgers card, but it came out pretty well. Much better, thanks for the tips.

Rick

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Those are absolutely fantastic and really glad they ended up by you.

Baltimore Orioles
 

Orioles undated lineup card. Think it’s Earl’s writing and would guess from 1972. Any experts that could tell me what game this is from?

Hi Mark:

Nice lineup card (that's Earl handwriting for sure). I think it's from '72 as well and what I would do would be to go to baseball reference & look at the box scores of Cuellar's game logs that season & check out the lineups (and substitutions) for each one to find the match.....

If you need help, lmk!

Bill

Thanks Bill!

I believe it matches up to a game on 8-3-72 to the lineup card.

First night game in Cubs history...

Good one, Jeff! :cool:

Thanks! It's been really quiet for some time as far as new pickups, but excited about this one, and just acquired a collection of 150 lineup cards from the mid 80's (most from 1984), and spent the weekend sorting through and researching and found a few cool ones.

Picked up a collection of 150 lineup cards that were from Eric Gregg and it had this gem.

Orel Hershiser's MLB debut.

Personally, I think Hershiser deserves more consideration for the Hall. He's obviously a borderline candidate, but 200+ wins, Cy Young, great Playoff pitcher (win the MVP of the NLCS and WS in 1988, was 8-3 for his career in the Playoffs and that was only because he was 0-2 in the 1997 WS). Throw in his record-setting scoreless streak, and I think he's a candidate worthy of more consideration.

Edit: No idea why the photo is sideways. Hershiser came in in relief and it is his name in black under Honeycutt.

Thanks to Jeff for this special/cool Lineup card from the 3rd game of 1996 (Jeter's rookie campaign and Mo's first appearance of the season). Originating from the umpire John Hirschbeck's personal collection.

Happy we could work something as it will go beautifully with other items in your collection!

For reasons not obvious to me, Yankee lineup cards from their most recent dynasty are exceedingly difficult to find. It seems clear that the lineup cards that Joe Torre from when he was a Yankee have not entered the market. Whether that is because he would toss them or because he still has them (or has given them to someone who does), they have been extremely difficult, and almost all the ones I have were from John Hirschbeck's personal collection.

Enjoy the lineup card. Jeter's 10th career run, and one of the first games of his career in his ROY season, and of course, the first Yankee WS win in a long time.

Thanks so much Jeff, it's going to a good home. Appreciate the deal!

This lineup card style is pretty uncommon to see. From what I have seen over the years, I don't think many teams bothered with a lineup card for the official scorer, although the Padres were not the only one (the Orioles actually had a lineup card carbon pad with 4 sheets vs what most teams had with 3 for a period of time) with the back copy for the official scorer.

IMO Gaylord Perry is one of the most underrated pitchers in baseball history. Here is the game where he passed Bob Feller to move into 2nd all-time in K's. He would subsequently be by quite a few including Nolan Ryan, Steve Carlton, Randy Johnson etc but pitching in an era where K's were far less common, Perry was dominant.

To the best of my knowledge, no lineup cards exist from the Negro Leagues. I don't know if they did not use lineup cards the way the American & National Leagues did, or if they simply were not saved. Whatever the case is, I have been collecting lineup cards for many years and have never seen even a photo of one.

Because of this, I have pretty much given up hope of ever getting a lineup card from player's who played in the Negro Leagues, outside of those who spent time in the Majors. (I have lineup cards with Aaron, Mays, Campanella, Robinson, Newcombe, Banks etc, but assumed that most others were off limits).

Over the years though, I have occasionally been able to find lineup cards from the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and in a number of cases they featured former Negro League Players. Some (like Minnie Minoso) later played in the Majors, but others did not.

Recently I was able to acquire this September 8, 1951 lineup card from the Minneapolis Millers. While the card does not feature Willie Mays, who played for the team, but was already with the NY Giants, it does include Negro League HOF Ray Dandridge, who had 3 hits in the game, and former Negro League Champion NY Cuban Dave Barnhill.

40 years ago today the Pinetar Game between the Royals & Yankees was concluded after A.L. President Lee MacPhail overruled the earlier ruling by the umpires that George Brett was out for using an illegal bat...

The Royals had to fly out to NY on an off day to finish the last four outs...Here is the Royals dugout lineup card signed by members of both teams:

https://i.imgur.com/dQKmIbL.jpg

In full disclosure this isn't part of my collection but rather belongs to one of the game's participants who shared it with me.

One of the most memorable games in the last 50 years!

I've seen a picture of this and have mixed feelings about the autographs, which to me obscure the lineup card itself. I'm a fan of getting a single signature or a couple of signatures for something significant that displays well, but think that it can be overkill to get it signed like this, especially since it's impossible to get people to sign neatly and uniformly.

Cool item. But I’m with Jeff, would much rather have the lineup card pure, and no autographs, save maybe for Brett. I was around 9 and watched the game at my grandmothers. Very memorable.

1967 American League Pennant Race
 

The Chicago White Sox hosted the Detroit Tigers for a Sunday doubleheader on September 10, 1967. Both teams were involved in a wild, four-team chase for the A. L. pennant.

The first game, Tiger manager Mayo Smith penciled in a formidable lineup including future HOFers Al Kaline and Eddie Mathews as well as Norm Cash, Jim Northrup, Willie Horton, Dick McAuliffe and Bill Freehan to face Chisox pitcher Joel Horlen. Chicago's pennant hopes had been greatly diminished the day before during the TV Game of the Week, with Detroit overcoming a 3-0 deficit, scoring seven times in the ninth inning deflating the Sox 7-3.

Chicago came back from the dead the next day, shutting out the Tigers in both games of the twin bill. Joel Horlen tossed a no-hitter in the first game.

Incredible!

In honor of him creating the 30/60 Club

- MLB Debut umpire/manager lineup card
- MLB Debut bullpen lineup card
- 1st Career Playoff HR (Grandslam). Also Freddie Freeman's 1st career Playoff HR

I posted hits once before but was thinking about Greinke since with the season ending I'm wondering if he has pitched his last game.

Looking up the date of this game I discovered it was also the game that Reggie Jackson's number was retired for the A's. It was also the A's 3000th win as the Oakland A's. (Obviously they played in Philadelphia and KC before moving to Oakland.)

Great stuff as always, Jeff!

As you already know, I won this lineup card in Lelands last night, and at a great price. I think it slid under the radar.

Beauty! Yup, we chatted about it and I am with you that it was definitely a steal. Congrats!

Very nice pick-up, these are not easy to find.

Rick

Thanks Jeff & Rick!

I picked up my first line-up card in a mixed lot of collectibles a little while ago. It's from the Pirates in April 1976.

Looks like 4/30/1976

Dave Parker's 6th career HR.

Very cool.

9/10/1951 Yankees lineup card

Features a rookie Mickey Mantle in right field playing next to Joe DiMaggio in the latter's 10th to last (regular season) game.

One of 3 Mantle/DiMaggio lineup cards from 1951 known to still exist.

Sometimes you go into a game knowing it could be important. Maybe it is the debut of a highly touted prospect. Or it is the final game of the season with playoff implications

Other times you don't know before, but you figure it out during the game. Maybe a big star gets 4 home runs, or a pitcher pitches a no-hitter.

Other times, the significance of a moment is only noticable some time later.

On August 22, 2023, Mike Trout returned from injury. He played one game and returned to the injured list for the remainder of the season.

At the end of the year, Shohei Ohtani signed with the Dodgers.

The result is that this game represents the final time that Trout and Ohtani played together as teammates. Likely the final time their names will ever be penciled in on the same 'official batting order' card.