Saturday, April 30, 2016

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.

Saturday, April 23, 2016

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

Saturday, April 16, 2016

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.

Saturday, April 9, 2016

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.