Postwar Topps Baseball Card Trivia
 

Tough questions (in my opinion). Lets see how you do...

1. While it was not unusual for Topps to reuse photos on their cards back in the day, they reused the same photo of this guy... 7 years apart. Who?
2. In the postwar era (pre-1980) there were 4 Cy Young winners that had regular issue Topps cards with different teams the year they won the award. No tricks. Name the 4 guys.
3. Speaking of Cy Young Award winners, during the Postwar era (pre 1980) there was never a Topps set with more than 2 rookie cards of future Cy Young award winners... except for one set that had 4. Name the set and the 4 players. We're talking legit rookie cards here.
4. Same question, only with MVP winners; Generally, there was never a postwar era Topps set with more than 2 rookie cards of future MVP winners - 3 exceptions to this: one set had 5!!!; one set had 4; and one set had 3. Name the sets and corresponding future MVP RC's. No tricks. We're talking legit RC's (52T Mantle, 56T Howard, 52 Topps Mays are not legit RC's).
5. Postwar Topps Rookie of the Year question: Name the 2 rookie of the Year Award winners that had Topps cards with different teams the year before they won the award.

3. Has to be 1965. I can only think of 3. McLain, Hunter, and Carlton
4. 1955 has Koufax, Clemente, and Killebrew
1975 has Rice, Lynn, Brett, Yount, and Hernandez
I can't think of another
5. Lou Pinella is one. Can't think of the other.

+Lonborg

#3 is closed out (1965 w/ Hunter, Carlton, McLain, and Lonborg.
#4 is partially correct: 1975 was the set with RCs of 5 future MVPs.
Still looking for the set with 4 and the set with 3 future MVP's (the set w/ 3 is very tough). Anyone?

+ Tommie Agee

#5 closed out w/ Pinella and Agee.

1955 has rc's of 3 future MVP winners.
Koufax won in 1963
Clemente won in 1966
Killebrew won in 1969



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1. Wally Wolf, 1963 and 1970?

Actually 1955 Topps was the set with four RC's of future MVP's. C'mon... the last guy, while harder than Koufax, Clemente, Killebrew, is get-able.
The set with 3 RC's of MVP's is much tougher.

He shared the 63 card with three other players and again in 1970 he shared his card with another rookie.

Is it Elston Howard from the 1955 set?

#1 is closed out (see below)

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/...0/60-208Fr.jpg

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1970-TOPPS-74...hSsnku/$_3.JPG

Negative. Elston's rookie card is in the 55 Bowman set. This is a Topps question.

1955 Ken Boyer.

1955 - Ken Boyer is the fourth guy.

Cool. We now know the set w/ 5 RC's of MVPs and the one with RC's of 4 MVP's. Which set had 3?

1971. Foster, Garvey & Baylor

2. 1967 Mike McCormick, 1972 Steve Carlton, 1974 Mike Marshall, 1978 Gaylord Perry.

This closes out question #4

This closes out question #2 and closes out my quiz.

Great questions Gr8Beldini. Very difficult.

...yet the panel answered them all inside 20 minutes.

another Topps card quiz question
 

1) How many " two player rookie cards " was Lou Piniella on ?

Sweet Lou
 

1964, 1968 and 1969 -- all with different teams no less: Senators, Indians and Pilots

I don't believe #1 IS closed.

Topps used the same photo of Bob Miller Phillies in the 52 set and with the Cardinals in the 59 set. Same 7 years if my math is correct.

Fred

1959? Mike Cuellar, Jim Perry and Bob Gibson.

Gibson Perry and Cuellar are all Hi #'s IIRC

Poo. I missed out on this. The '75 set would have popped into my head right away, but the others would have taken some thinking.

More please :) I'll try to make it on before 4 am, heh heh. :)

You are right. When I was figuring this stuff out in my head (and a notepad) I put Jim Perry's RC in the 60 set. '59 is correct - still makes '65 as the only set w/ 4 Cy Young RCs, but the question stated that "no other set had more than 1 RC of a future Cy Young winner. You proved me inaccurate on this one.

This is why I was careful to not say, "only guy with the same picture 7 years apart..." I figured that there might have more than one or even one with a greater time between.

No problem, and thanks for the brain teasers. Actually, I think there is another Topps set with 3 RCs of eventual Cy Young winners. 1976 had Ron Guidry, Mike Flanagan and Dennis Eckersley. Some may consider Eck's SSPC card to be his rookie, but that was unlicensed and, contrary to popular belief, was likely issued in 1976 and not 1975 anyway.

We are ready for more in the future! :)