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Did I show this recently? If so, so be it.
Emmitt Smith '02 Topps Pristine Run With History

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Here's one for today!

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1958 Topps #175 Marv Throneberry RC

 

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Here's one for today!

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1958 Topps #175 Marv Throneberry RC

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MARVELOUS MARV!!!!

With the expansion Mets in 1962 as the starting first baseman he had 10 home runs and 17 errors! Not an easy feat in any era.

 

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MARVELOUS MARV!!!!

With the expansion Mets in 1962 as the starting first baseman he had 10 home runs and 17 errors! Not an easy feat in any era.

And he was the Miller Lite spokesman too!

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And he was the Miller Lite spokesman too!

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LMAO! 43 for 1!!! i have not seen that ad in decades!

 

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Here's one for today!

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1958 Topps #175 Marv Throneberry RC

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I did not know this factoid until just now. When I saw Marv Throneberry was with the Kansas City Athletics in the early 60s, I began to wonder if he was involved in the famous trade that bought Roget Maris from Kansas City to the Yankees. And 'lo and behold he was. Throneberry was traded with 3 other players to the Athletics (most notably Hank Bauer and Don larson) for Maris and 2 other players. I had no idea he was involved in that trade until today!

 

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I did not know this factoid until just now. When I saw Marv Throneberry was with the Kansas City Athletics in the early 60s, I began to wonder if he was involved in the famous trade that bought Roget Maris from Kansas City to the Yankees. And 'lo and behold he was. Throneberry was traded with 3 other players to the Athletics (most notably Hank Bauer and Don larson) for Maris and 2 other players. I had no idea he was involved in that trade until today!

@SymphonicMetal

Interesting. I didn't know that either. Here's the full trade:

December 11, 1959:
KCA receives: Hank Bauer, Don Larsen, Norm Siebern and Marv Throneberry.
NYY receives: Roger Maris, Joe DeMaestri and Kent Hadley

Bauer and Larsen's best days were behind them at that point. Siebern did the best of KC's return - a 3-time AS and finished in the MVP voting (14th, 7th, and 27th).

Then I looked into why KC would trade Maris in this deal and found this:

"The two franchises shared an unusually cozy relationship where Kansas City essentially operated as a "major league farm team" for the Yankees. At the time, Athletics owner Arnold Johnson had close personal financial and real estate ties to Yankees co-owner Del Webb. Because Johnson owed Webb favors and money, the Yankees were frequently allowed to treat Kansas City's roster as a talent pipeline. Whenever New York needed to fill a hole, they would trade away their aging or underperforming veterans to Kansas City in exchange for top-tier young talent."

Evidently, the Yanks picked up quite a few solid pieces from KC in a similar manner - players such as Clete Boyer, Ralph Terry, Enos Slaughter, Johnny Sain, and Ryne Duren.

I don't think anything like this would fly in today's MLB.

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