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Old 07-25-2018, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by nolemmings View Post
Thanks for asking. BTW, I had to triple check to make sure that 1967 was Chris Short's rookie card, as in my mind I recall seeing a'65 and even a '64 Topps card of his. How in the heck did he not have a card before 1967? Contract dispute with Topps I assume? He appeared in enough games to basically "earn" a card for every season from 1961-1966. Maybe this has been covered before.
There are a whole bunch of people who have their RC in 1967 that you would never suspect never had Topps cards before

The most famous was Maury Wills

Then Chris Short

Then people such as Doug Clemens and Arnold Earley. Trust me, there were some funky things in 1967. I think, and if Mark Armour reads this he probably can chime in better than I do but that was when Marvin Miller 1st got the players reasonable money to be on Topps cards.

Rich
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