Letters Perfect

A couple of items from the real Topps Archives today kids!

First out of the gate is a letter quite a few small fry would have received from Topps if they had written in to try and get a few baseball cards to complete their sets:

Sy Berger and his secretary are shown as the Reference Initials but Sy did not sign these letters, they just went out like this, maybe sometimes with an inside address and date. These were printed up in advance, my copy does not have typewriter key impressions, although the Topps Chewing Gum logo and contact information is embossed. Dating is tough but pre-1963 I would say, given the lack of a ZIP code and it seems likely it's from the early 60's.

Dating is not an issue for this next item, which is an internal memo that details a panoply of Topps bigwigs and their secretaries:

The bast part of this memo is that Woody Gelman annotated it (his handwriting is quite distinctive) so it could be filed away in an internal reference book. I don't have the attachments unfortunately but can guess that nos. 906 and 907 are rak and cello configurations, while item 988 is probably related to wax. Of course, I could be completely wrong!

Topps had clear delineations between their direct retail accounts and their jobbers (wholesalers) and in fact different unions handled shipments for each of these.  In addition there were tobacco and confectionery jobbers that were also solicited differently.

For you young 'uns, an addressograph was a way to address mailings using a machine of the same name.  It was quite the cumbersome process and you can read more about it here if you like.

The memo itself was a ditto, likely made on a spirit duplicator.  Those of us over a certain age can conjure up the smell of these immediately upon seeing one. It was pure methyl alcohol, by the way, that let off that smell so all you third graders back in the day were getting high every time you sniffed quiz papers!

All of this was a labor intensive process and when you start connecting the dots, you realize just how much product Topps had to move to make a profit.

1969 Is Fine - Part Three

Continuing on in the magical year of 1969, today we take a peek at Topps Super Baseball, one of the first Topps "premium" sets (in the "high value" sense of the word). It's been discussed here before but given the canvass of the Topps baseball issues we've been working on here at the Topps Archives Research Complex another look is certainly in order.

I won't get into the specifics on the backs (been there, done that) but do want to look at potential printing dates. Given the fact 1969 was an expansion year with four new teams added in one season for the first time, Topps did a great job keeping things straight in this set, especially compared to the Decal and Deckle inserts that appeared this year.

However, thanks to a specific transaction, the dating of the set is fairly easy. On April 25, 1969  Dick Selma was traded by the Padres to the Cubs.

Given the (almost) alphabetical ordering of the set (by teams in each league and then players on each squad) it's easy to figure out Selma was to have been a Padre in the set. So the set was composed before the trade date of April 25th for sure.  In terms of a start date, I have to think it was after the Decals and 4-on 1's were created, given the lack of anarchy in Super Baseball. Selma, who was numbered one behind his fellow Padre Ollie Brown in the set, likely replaced somebody else whose name preceded Brown's. Based upon their expansion draft picks and active roster for the season, only three players are possible: Jose Arcia, Steve Arlin and Jack Baldschun.

Arcia was a light hitting utility man with one season in the majors when the Padres selected him in the expansion draft.  No way it was him.  Arlin was taken in the same draft but had never pitched in the majors before he debuted in '69, so it wasn't him either. Baldschun was released by the Reds before the start of the season and  on April 12, 1969 was signed by San Diego. He stuck with the team for the entire season and could have been the other intended Padre.  I'm guessing Topps had slotted him in then found they had no suitable photo of him (the set showing only certain poses) so they grabbed whatever was handy, namely a shot of Selma.  That puts a potential two week window in early April on the table, assuming my guess work on Selma is right.  If not and it was just a screw up, then early March seems likely to me.

(UPDATE 4/24/16: Friend o'the Archive Keith Olbermann has pointed out the trade of Joe Torre to St. Louis from Atlanta on March 17th marks an earlier lock in date and the Mickey Mantle retirement announcement of March 1st may push this back to February at the latest. At least I'm consistent, the longer I run an arc, then more screwups I make!) 

No matter, it's a great set.  Here's a checklist in team order for you all.  Note how Kansas City is out of order as they should precede Minnesota:

No.		First Name		Last Name		Team
1		McNALLY		DAVE		BALTIMORE ORIOLES
2		ROBINSON		FRANK		BALTIMORE ORIOLES
3		ROBINSON		BROOKS		BALTIMORE ORIOLES
4		HARRELSON		KEN		BOSTON RED SOX
5		YASTRZEMSKI		CARL		BOSTON RED SOX
6		CULP		RAY		BOSTON RED SOX
7		FREGOSI		JIM		CALIFORNIA ANGELS
8		REICHARDT		RICK		CALIFORNIA ANGELS
9		DAVALILLO		VIC		CALIFORNIA ANGELS
10		APARICIO		LUIS		CHICAGO WHITE SOX
11		WARD		PETE		CHICAGO WHITE SOX
12		HORLEN		JOEL		CHICAGO WHITE SOX
13		TIANT		LUIS		CLEVELAND INDIANS
14		McDOWELL		SAM		CLEVELAND INDIANS
15		CARDENAL		JOSE		CLEVELAND INDIANS
16		HORTON		WILLIE		DETROIT TIGERS
17		McLAIN		DENNY		DETROIT TIGERS
18		FREEHAN		BILL		DETROIT TIGERS
19		KILLEBREW		HARMON		MINNESOTA TWINS
20		OLIVA		TONY		MINNESOTA TWINS
21		CHANCE		DEAN		MINNESOTA TWINS
22		FOY		JOE		KANSAS CITY ROYALS
23		NELSON		ROGER		KANSAS CITY ROYALS
24		MANTLE		MICKEY		NEW YORK YANKEES
25		STOTTLEMYRE		MEL		NEW YORK YANKEES
26		WHITE		ROY		NEW YORK YANKEES
27		MONDAY		RICK		OAKLAND ATHLETICS
28		JACKSON		REGGIE		OAKLAND ATHLETICS
29		CAMPANERIS		BERT		OAKLAND ATHLETICS
30		HOWARD		FRANK		WASHINGTONS SENATORS
31		PASCUAL		CAMILO		WASHINGTONS SENATORS
32		DAVIS		TOMMY		SEATTLE PILOTS
33		MINCHER		DON		SEATTLE PILOTS
34		AARON		HANK		ATLANTA BRAVES
35		ALOU		FELIPE		ATLANTA BRAVES
36		TORRE		JOE		ATLANTA BRAVES
37		JENKINS		FERGIE		CHICAGO CUBS
38		SANTO		RON		CHICAGO CUBS
39		WILLIAMS		BILLY		CHICAGO CUBS
40		HELMS		TOMMY		CINCINNATI REDS
41		ROSE		PETE		CINCINNATI REDS
42		MORGAN		JOE		HOUSTON ASTROS
43		WYNN		JIM		HOUSTON ASTROS
44		BLEFARY		CURT		HOUSTON ASTROS
45		DAVIS		WILLIE		LOS ANGELES DODGERS
46		DRYSDALE		DON		LOS ANGELES DODGERS
47		HALLER		TOM		LOS ANGELES DODGERS
48		STAUB		RUSTY		MONTREAL EXPOS
49		WILLS		MAURY		MONTREAL EXPOS
50		JONES		CLEON		NEW YORK METS
51		KOOSMAN		JERRY		NEW YORK METS
52		SEAVER		TOM		NEW YORK METS
53		ALLEN		RICHIE		PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
54		SHORT		CHRIS		PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
55		ROJAS		COOKIE		PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
56		ALOU		MATTY		PITTSBURGH PIRATES
57		BLASS		STEVE		PITTSBURGH PIRATES
58		CLEMENTE		ROBERTO		PITTSBURGH PIRATES
59		FLOOD		CURT		ST. LOUIS CARDINALS
60		GIBSON		BOB		ST. LOUIS CARDINALS
61		McCARVER		TIM		ST. LOUIS CARDINALS
62		SELMA		DICK		SAN DIEGO PADRES
63		BROWN		OLLIE		SAN DIEGO PADRES
64		MARICHAL		JUAN		SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS
65		MAYS		WILLIE		SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS
66		McCOVEY		WILLIE		SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS

1969 Is Fine - Part Two

Following last weeks' peek at the 1969 Decals,  today I'll be looking at the 1969 Topps Baseball Mini Stickers, more commonly known as 4 on 1 Stickers. 

Topps was pretty big on putting a "quad" of stickers on a card back in the 60's and early 70's, especially on the non-sports side. For some reason they decided to test a baseball themed mini sticker set in 1969, taking images from the 2nd series press sheet used for the regular issue. Perhaps Woody Gelman just liked the card design for '69! As an aside, the Football stamp stickers Topps issued in 1969, which had to be moistened to put into a mini album, are referred to as 4 in 1 Stickers. This makes me think it was more expensive to use true sticker stock but I digress....

In addition to the old standby of capless photos, Topps really broke out the airbrush in '69.  Kosco had come over to the Dodgers from the Yankees and Ollie Brown was, of course, selected in the expansion draft by the Padres (from the Giants) and had the honor of being the first player selected in MLB's third such crapshoot. Jim Bunning came over after the 1967 season from the Phillies to the Pirates and given his Philly duds, I would say Topps just didn't have a current picture of him. 

As Friend o'the Archive Keith Olbermann recently pointed out to me, Topps was facing a Major League Baseball Players Association boycott in 1967-68 and only a handful of new pictures were taken during that time.  Dexter Press and few other issuers tried to take advantage of this interregnum but the MLBPA worked out their differences with Topps after increased royalties were obtained for the players. They did start taking a lot of new photos in spring training in 1969 as a lot of tired old shots had been rehashed ad nauseum over the previous years.

Ron Reed was happily ensconced in Atlanta at the time, although he had been a player with the Detroit Pistons in the NBA  a couple of years prior. In addition to being one of a dozen MLB players who also played in the NBA/NBL, he played alongside former White Sox pitcher Dave DeBusschere while in Detroit and, in fact, was also coached by Double D, who was Pistons head coach from 1964-67!  In addition to dying on my 15th wedding anniversary, DeBusschere was also having a drink with an acquaintance of mine on the day he passed.  Anyhoo...

Topps indicia adorns the lower right card sticker of each quad, so 25 of these babies have such markings. The back is just a shade off true white:

Looks like the horizontal score line had a bit more oomph behind it during manufacture as you can't see the vertical companion.

I'll get into the teams and composition of the set momentarily, but one interesting variation from the regular issue Baseball set surfaces and gives us a window into the production timeline.

Clayton Dalrymple, shown with the Phillies in this set, while he has a team variation in the main set, having been traded from the Phillies to the Orioles on January 20, 1969. Here's the progression:

So at what point did Topps make him an Oriole?  We saw last time out that the Decals were composed sometime between 12/12/68 and 1/22/69 and the Mini Stickers fall into the same rough time frame. Once again Donn Clendenon helps with the dating. Remember he went through a crazy period where, as Wikipedia tells us:

"With first base prospect Al Oliver waiting in the wings, the Pirates left Clendenon unprotected for the 1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft, and he was selected by the Montreal Expos. On January 22, 1969, the Expos traded Clendenon and Jesús Alou to the Houston Astros for Rusty Staub. The Astros had recently hired Clendenon's former Pirates manager, Harry Walker, with whom Clendenon had a personality clash, to steer their club. Clendenon refused to report to his new team.

The Expos and Astros worked out a new deal, and Clendenon joined the Expos on April 19, 1969."

He's an Expo in the 4 on 1's It's easy to pinpoint the bookend dates for the Mini Stickers then. They couldn't have been approved for final design before October 14, 1968 (the day Clendenon was selected by the Expos from Pittsburgh) or after January 20, 1969 when Clay Dalrymple became an Oriole. Clendenon's regular issue card with the Expos shown also goes for about ten times the Houston version, while Dalrymple has many more Orioles cards available so the first regular issue print run was altered and subsequent runs had the majority of both player's cards with their new teams. I think it's good bet then that the Mini Stickers were printed just after the first run of the second series was composed.

A color process proof of the Mini Stickers exists and was auctioned for a song by REA a little while back:

These were taken from the "A" sheet, or left side of a 264 master uncut series 2 sheet, as iPhoned by Friend o'the Archive Anthony Nex; Clendenon as an Expo is third card in on rows 1 and 9, while Dalrymple is eight cards over on the 6th row:

You can clearly see how the top two rows of the regular press sheet are double printed and reappear near the bottom.  The rightmost column was excised for the Mini Stickers, which saved Topps from having checklists appear in the set but truncated the World Series subset by one subject in sticker form.  In fact, where else can you find a checklist of the cards NOT replicated as stickers?  Witness:

107  2nd Series Checklist

155  Pete Ward (White Sox)

167  World Series Game 6

172  Jerry Stephenson (Red Sox)

182  Bill Rigney (Angels)

183  Don Shaw (Expos)

211  Galen Cisco (Royals)

212  Tom Tresh (Yankees)

214  3rd Series Checklist

217  John Donaldson (Athletics)

Here's the "B" Sheet, from an old Huggins & Scott auction:

You can see how Topps sliced and diced the rows when compared to the "A" sheet.  That's how they rolled back then! If you count from the top down, the 8th and 9th rows, which are replicated as the 11th and 12th rows, are all extra prints, appearing three times over the two half sheets.

As with the 1969 Decals, I'll give you a checklist ordered by team.  Note all the of the designated rookie cards have two players apiece but I've shown each player individually:

LAST		FIRST		TEAM		REG #
REICHARDT		RICK		ANGELS		205
RODGERS		BOB		ANGELS		157
WEAVER		JIM		ANGELS		134
BAUER		HANK		ATHLETICS		124
NOSSEK		JOE		ATHLETICS		143
ODOM		JOHN		ATHLETICS		195
AARON		TOMMIE		BRAVES		128
BRITTON		JIM		BRAVES		154
HARRIS		LUMAN		BRAVES		196
MILLAN		FELIX		BRAVES		210
REED		RON		BRAVES		177
GIBSON		BOB		CARDINALS		200
HUNTZ		STEVE		CARDINALS		136
NELSON		MEL		CARDINALS		181
PINSON		VADA		CARDINALS		160
SHANNON		MIKE		CARDINALS		110
TORREZ		MIKE		CARDINALS		136
BECKERT		GLENN		CUBS		171
DUROCHER		LEO		CUBS		147
HANDS		BILL		CUBS		115
SMITH		WILLIE		CUBS		198
FAIRLY		RON		DODGERS		122
KOSCO		ANDY		DODGERS		139
LEFEBVRE		JIM		DODGERS		140
PURDIN		JOHN		DODGERS		161
SUTTON		DON		DODGERS		216
BATEMAN		JOHN		EXPOS		138
CLENDENON		DONN		EXPOS		208
FAIREY		JIM		EXPOS		117
GIBBON		JOE		GIANTS		158
HIATT		JACK		GIANTS		204
MAYS		WILLIE		GIANTS		190
SADECKI		RAY		GIANTS		125
EDWARDS		JOHNNY		HOUSTON		186
GILSON		HAL		HOUSTON		156
McFADDEN		LEON		HOUSTON		156
RADER		DOUG		HOUSTON		119
WILSON		DON		HOUSTON		202
ALVIS		MAX		INDIANS		145
AZCUE		JOE		INDIANS		176
SNYDER		RUSS		INDIANS		201
WILLIAMS		STAN		INDIANS		118
CARDWELL		DON		METS		193
COLLINS		KEVIN		METS		127
HENDLEY		BOB		METS		144
MARTIN		J.C.		METS		112
DILLMAN		BILL		ORIOLES		141
JOHNSON		DAVEY		ORIOLES		203
MAY		DAVE		ORIOLES		113
PHOEBUS		TOM		ORIOLES		185
BROWN		OLLIE		PADRES		149
McCOOL		BILL		PADRES		129
PENA		ROBERTO		PADRES		184
SELMA		DICK		PADRES		197
CALLISON		JOHNNY		PHILLIES		133
DALRYMPLE		CLAY		PHILLIES		151
HISLE		LARRY		PHILLIES		206
JACKSON		GRANT		PHILLIES		174
LERSCH		BARRY		PHILLIES		206
WISE		RICK		PHILLIES		188
DAVIS		TOMMY		PILOTS		135
HANEY		LARRY		PILOTS		209
MORRIS		JOHNNY		PILOTS		111
OYLER		RAY		PILOTS		178
BUNNING		JIM		PIRATES		175
CANNIZZARO		CHRIS		PIRATES		131
PAGAN		JOSE		PIRATES		192
SISK		TOMMIE		PIRATES		152
LAHOUD		JOE		RED SOX		189
PETROCELLI		RICO		RED SOX		215
STANGE		LEE		RED SOX		148
THIBDEAU		JOHN		RED SOX		189
YASTRZEMSKI		CARL		RED SOX		130
ARRIGO		GERRY		REDS		213
ROSE		PETE		REDS		120
WAGNER		LEON		REDS		187
WOODWARD		WOODY		REDS		142
ADAIR		JERRY		ROYALS		159
BUNKER		WALLY		ROYALS		137
HARRISON		CHUCK		ROYALS		116
BALDWIN		DAVE		SENATORS		132
BRINKMAN		ED		SENATORS		153
FRENCH		JIM		SENATORS		199
HOWARD		FRANK		SENATORS		170
WORLD SERIES		GAME 4		SPECIAL-WS		165
WORLD SERIES		GAME 3		SPECIAL-WS		164
WORLD SERIES		GAME 7		SPECIAL-WS		168
WORLD SERIES		GAME 2		SPECIAL-WS		163
WORLD SERIES		GAME 1		SPECIAL-WS		162
WORLD SERIES		SUMMARY		SPECIAL-WS		169
WORLD SERIES		GAME 5		SPECIAL-WS		166
FACE		ROY		TIGERS		207
HORTON		WILLIE		TIGERS		180
McLAIN		DENNY		TIGERS		150
TRACEWSKI		DICK		TIGERS		126
GRZENDA		JOE		TWINS		121
PERRY		JIM		TWINS		146
ROSEBORO		JOHN		TWINS		218
UHLAENDER		TED		TWINS		194
CHRISTIAN		BOB		WHITE SOX		173
NYMAN		GERRY		WHITE SOX		173
PAVLETICH		DON		WHITE SOX		179
WOOD		WILBUR		WHITE SOX		123
CLOSTER		ALAN		YANKEES		114
CUMBERLAND		JOHN		YANKEES		114
McDANIEL		LINDY		YANKEES		191

EDIT 4/17/16: A further tip of the cap to Keith Olbermann, who pointed put the first version of this post had Dalrymple shown with the wrong team on the Mini Stickers. His catch has helped tighten up this post considerably.

1969 Is Fine - Part One

1969 brought a world of changes to Major League Baseball. A second wave of expansion swelled the number of teams to 24 and gave us the beginnings of divisional alignments and multi-tiered playoffs. Topps was forced to change too, with new photography being ordered for veterans and a massive set that, at 664 cards, was their largest to date. 1969 also marked the last year of things such as multi-player cards and five cent wax packs, so as one era ended another began.

Topps created a simple design for the 1969 Baseball cards and gave them backs with a pinkish/salmon color that was prevalent in many of their late 60's non-sports sets. I guess when Topps bought ink they bought it by the tanker truck full! The result was an easy to read reverse that expanded on the slimmer, vertically oriented landscape of the past two years and incorporated the curved lower case "t" Topps logo-its only appearance on a vintage baseball card.

Topps so liked the design of the cards in 1969 that they used it in two additional sets: a 48 subject decal insert with the regular issue and a 25 "card"/100 Mini Stickers set that was sold on its own. Today we'll take a look at the Decals.

They are quite colorful and measure about 1 3/4" x 2 1/8", although there is some slight variance in the cutting; as per below, some of this cutting may have occurred well after the last out of the 1969 World Series was caught by Cleon Jones.

The colored circles usually differ vs. the regular issue and the text is all black here whereas the cards used a two tone scheme. Actually, all of the colored circles may be different but I didn't really check those carefully.  What I did check was all of the poses. Almost of the images used for the Decals differ from those on the regular issue cards.

There are three types of photos used on the Decals when compared to the regular issue and I counted each type:

1) Different picture (35)

2) Same picture (5)

3) More tightly cropped picture (8)

A couple of crops were so close I counted them as being the same.  The 8 tight crops I noted were obvious ones.  Here is an example of a cropped Decal photo:

You can see how they used a tighter crop of the photo from the card:

What the heck, here's the aforementioned Topps logo on the card back.  Sweet, huh?

Now take a look at Tony Oliva's regular card vs. his Decal:

Two different photos were used obviously. I'll get into the reasons for this momentarily. It also worth noting Topps did manage to recycle his Decal image on a 1969 Super Baseball card though, just with a slightly bigger crop:

The Decals sport two team changes (sort of): Rusty Staub is shown with Houston on his Decal but is with Montreal in the regular issue. Donn Clendenon had a card variation in 1969 and can be found with Montreal or Houston but he's with Montreal on his Decal.

This makes a lot of sense as he was traded for Staub on January 22, 1969 (although Donn refused to report to the Astros) and this transaction allows us to pinpoint a date for the printing of at least one-half of the Decals. I'm trying to sort out which series' packs had the Decals (or, more properly Magic Rub-Offs) as the wrapper on the wax packs stated but the second series had them for sure, based upon PSA Registry details and Darren Prince's 1993 pamphlet Unopened Baseball Wax Packs, Boxes & Wrappers Price Guide. Prince goes on to add Series 5 to to the mix for the Decals, whereas series 3 and 4 had the Deckle inserts. Cello packs also held inserts, but not Rak Paks. 

It certainly seems like they could have been issued in two series of 24 then and they are taken from all seven series of Topps Baseball, like so (print runs and series match in 1969):

Series One - 8 (six cropping differences, two photos that are the same)

Series Two - 12 (11 use different pictures, one is the same)

Series Three - 8 (all but two are different, one is a crop, one is the same)

Series Four - 7 (one is the same, the rest are different)

Series Five  - 7 (one is a crop, the others are different)

Series Six - 4 (all different)

Series Seven - 2 (all different)

Topps clearly did not have the higher series cards composed when the Decals were designed, which looks to have been right after the First Series cards were composed and printed. This timing led to so many different photos being used after the first series was mined for the Decals. Given the date of the Staub/Clendenon trade, Rusty being with Houston on his Decal, plus the fact Hoyt Wilhelm is shown as an Angel on his (he was traded to the Angels on December 12, 1968 from Kansas City, who had taken him in the AL expansion draft two months prior), we know the design was locked in between 12/12/68 and 1/22/69. Topps had more time between composition and printing than they were used to though, as you will note they were printed in the U.K.  

Topps used a London company called Letraset, who specialized in this style of ruboff decal, to print these, and you can see how sharp their work was. That's because Letraset was well ahead of anybody with this technology at the time. Nigel has the scoop on them, at least on the Football side. Topps licensed from or used Letraset to produce a couple of non-sports sets as well in the early 1970's.

The decal image was printed on the reverse of the clear, thick, cello top layer.  A bottom layer of very slightly waxed paper had to be peeled off before the decal could be applied.  Take a look at the back of one for goodness sake:

A number of finds, both of cut and uncut decals (on long rolls) have surfaced over the last 15 for so years and finding high grade examples is not difficult. Many of these rolls have now been cut up and graded (don't get me started on "sheet-cutting" and TPG's!)

Here is the Decal checklist, ordered by team, showing the Baseball series each player was in. All teams have two subjects, except the Angels (3) and Royals (1), thanks to the Wilhelm trade. The table also shows poses and card series:

FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	TEAM	CARD		POSE		SERIES
JIM	FREGOSI	ANGELS	365		DIFF		4
RICK	REICHARDT	ANGELS	205		DIFF		2
HOYT	WILHELM	ANGELS	565		DIFF		6
REGGIE	JACKSON	ATHLETICS	260		CROP		3
RICK	MONDAY	ATHLETICS	105		CROP		1
HANK	AARON	BRAVES	100		CROP		1
FELIPE	ALOU	BRAVES	300		DIFF		3
BOB	GIBSON	CARDS	200		DIFF		2
TIM	McCARVER	CARDS	475		DIFF		5
FERGIE	JENKINS	CUBS	640		DIFF		7
RON	SANTO	CUBS	570		DIFF		6
DON	DRYSDALE	DODGERS	400		DIFF		4
TOM	HALLER	DODGERS	310		DIFF		3
DONN	CLENDENON	EXPOS	208		DIFF		2
MAURY	WILLS	EXPOS	45		CROP		1
WILLIE	MAYS	GIANTS	190		DIFF		2
WILLIE	McCOVEY	GIANTS	440		DIFF		5
RUSTY	STAUB	HOUSTON	230		DIFF		3
JIM	WYNN	HOUSTON	360		SAME		4
SAM	McDOWELL	INDIANS	220		SAME		3
LUIS	TIANT	INDIANS	560		DIFF		6
JERRY	KOOSMAN	METS	90		CROP		1
TOM	SEAVER	METS	480		CROP		5
DAVE	McNALLY	ORIOLES	340		DIFF		4
FRANK	ROBINSON	ORIOLES	250		DIFF		3
TONY	GONZALEZ	PADRES	501		DIFF		5
DICK	SELMA	PADRES	197		DIFF		2
RICHIE	ALLEN	PHILLIES	350		DIFF		4
CHRIS	SHORT	PHILLIES	395		DIFF		4
TOMMY	DAVIS	PILOTS	135		DIFF		2
DON	MINCHER	PILOTS	285		DIFF		3
MATTY	ALOU	PIRATES	490		DIFF		5
ROBERTO	CLEMENTE	PIRATES	50		SAME		1
KEN	HARRELSON	RED SOX	240		DIFF		3
CARL	YASTRZEMSKI	RED SOX	130		DIFF		2
TOMMY	HELMS	REDS	70		CROP		1
PETE	ROSE	REDS	120		DIFF		2
JOE	FOY	ROYALS	93		CROP		1
FRANK	HOWARD	SENATORS	170		DIFF		2
CAMILO	PASCUAL	SENATORS	513		DIFF		6
WILLIE	HORTON	TIGERS	180		SAME		2
DENNY	McLAIN	TIGERS	150		DIFF		2
HARMON	KILLEBREW	TWINS	375		DIFF		4
TONY	OLIVA	TWINS	600		DIFF		7
LUIS	APARICIO	WHITE SOX	75		SAME		1
PETE	WARD	WHITE SOX	155		DIFF		2
MICKEY	MANTLE	YANKEES	500		DIFF		5
MEL	STOTTLEMYRE	YANKEES	470		DIFF		5

I love these little inserts-they are among my favorites of this era.