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WOW! Nice Parker rookies! The centering is awesome which is a problem for 70s Topps cards as you know.

I remember very well that in that mid 1970s era the National League produced a bunch of tall, athletic outfielders in Parker, Winfield, Dawson and Ellis Valentine. THey were all around type players and not just lumbering, power hitters. It was like having NBA looking players roaming the National League outfields at that time.

Greg Luzinski says thank you for the compliment!
 
The last 30 game winner. We won't see that again.

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One of the few 1968 Tigers still alive along with Mickey Stanley and my favorite player as a kid, Willie Horton. With McClain's lifestyle it is really surprising McClain is one of the few surviving '68 Tigers, He is said to have drank a case of Pepsi every day which is not something in the Jack LaLaine philosophy of heathy living. He must have great genetics to survive that.
 
WOW! Nice Parker rookies! The centering is awesome which is a problem for 70s Topps cards as you know.

I remember very well that in that mid 1970s era the National League produced a bunch of tall, athletic outfielders in Parker, Winfield, Dawson and Ellis Valentine. THey were all around type players and not just lumbering, power hitters. It was like having NBA looking players roaming the National League outfields at that time.
Yeah and Winfield was a pitcher in college. Can you imagine facing that dude on the mound?
 
I can hear Kirbyfan now. "All we see on this topic is Eddie Murray! Eddie Murray this and Eddie Murray that! We need some diversity on this thread like maybe some Marvin Harrison or Michael Irvin cards!"

You just can't keep some people happy, LMAO!!
I could never get sick of Steady Eddie. Some of these other characters, HOWEVER...
 
Here's one for today!

Scobes

1963 Topps #3 Jimmy Orr

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Scobes I never get tired of your posts of vintage cards in any of the four major sports!

A mainstay of my very early collecting career. Two things I can tell you about Jimmy Orr. 1) he was the wide receiver opposite of Raymond Berry for many years with the Colts and 2} his 1961 Fleer RC is one of the 4 cards I need to complete that set. I need Billy Cannon, Earl Morrall, Orr and one other common/minor star to complete it
 
Scobes I never get tired of your posts of vintage cards in any of the four major sports!

A mainstay of my very early collecting career. Two things I can tell you about Jimmy Orr. 1) he was the wide receiver opposite of Raymond Berry for many years with the Colts and 2} his 1961 Fleer RC is one of the 4 cards I need to complete that set. I need Billy Cannon, Earl Morrall, Orr and one other common/minor star to complete it

I like the colors of the 1963 Topps.

Hope you find the 61 Fleers!

Scobes
 
Here's one for today!

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1974-75 Topps #246 Phil Esposito Ross

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Very nice! 1974-75 Topps is the very first hockey set that I knew about. Seeing as hockey was a obscure, regional sport for us in Upstate NY it postdates my first recollections of football cards (1965), baseball cards (1966), and basketball cards (1971-72), And Phil Esposito was the biggest star in the game or at least he seemed to be to us outsiders. Now he appears to be an afterthought.
 
I agree that Esposito seems like an afterthought. I mean, look at the back of the card, he led the league in points 4 out of 5 years! What a player!

And I liked the fact that the midseason points leader got a $500 bonus. In today's money, that's $3,386. Which is now chump-change to professional players!

Scobes
 
I agree that Esposito seems like an afterthought. I mean, look at the back of the card, he led the league in points 4 out of 5 years! What a player!

And I liked the fact that the midseason points leader got a $500 bonus. In today's money, that's $3,386. Which is now chump-change to professional players!

Scobes
that's like meal money for them now a days. If we think Phil Esposito is an after thought, what about his brother Tony, who played goalie for the Blackhawks?

For me, getting into cards when we moved to MN, it was Baseball (Don Money was first card i remember in that first pack, ) Football (Greg Coleman ) and Hockey ( possibly Steve Christoff or Dave Christensen) I did not see a pack of basketball cards in SE MN until the 86-87 Fleer. Can't remember first card, but I know in the few packs i bought, i did have a Michael Jordan Sticker...
 
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