Generations of the Game

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https://baseballhall.org/

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https://baseballhall.org/discover/card-corner/1973-topps-brooks-robinson

[NashLumber]

56 minutes ago, weams said:

https://baseballhall.org/discover/card-corner/1973-topps-brooks-robinson

“From 1957 through 1978, Brooks Robinson appeared on a bevy of cards produced by the Topps Gum Company. Remarkably, only one of the cards showed Robinson taking a defensive position in actual game action. (His 1976 card shows him holding a glove and a ball, but it is clearly a posed sideline shot, and not one taken from game action.) Given Robinson’s status as the standard bearer for third base play, there is something highly incongruous about the relative absence of cards showing him fielding the position known as the hot corner.”

Nice to see that bit on Brooks and that he’ll be there for the ceremony again this year. That one card (in the quote above) showing him in game action at 3B came immediately to mind as one I had back in the day. I probably still have it. When I got rid of most of my cards 15 years ago, I kept all of my Orioles.