What is the Oldest Set with a Living Player?

[OldOriole]

I got to wondering about this. What is the oldest baseball set that features a player still alive today?

[Casey2296]

51 Bowman? Or maybe some of the late 40's sets would be my guess.

[rsdill2]

Good question. Best I can tell is Curt Simmons in the '49 Bowman Set.

Oldest living MLBers here: https://www.baseball-almanac.com/pla...ll_Players.php

Several still alive from '50 Bowman, but best I can tell Curt Simmons is the only living player in the '49 set.

[chadeast]

What is Eddie Robinson's earliest card?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by chadeast

What is Eddie Robinson's earliest card?

'47 - '66 Exhibit

And a truly wonderful man with whom I have had the great pleasure of spending a little time with.

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[OldOriole]

Originally Posted by rsdill2

Good question. Best I can tell is Curt Simmons in the '49 Bowman Set.

Oldest living MLBers here: https://www.baseball-almanac.com/pla...ll_Players.php

Several still alive from '50 Bowman, but best I can tell Curt Simmons is the only living player in the '49 set.

Robert, thank you for the link and I think you are correct. With a nod to Leon's mention of Eddie Robinson in the 1947-1966 Exhibits. It looks like Johnny Groth was also in that set.

Very interesting, only three of them left from the 1940's. Thanks much for the help.

[vansaad]

[OldOriole]

Aaron, nice post! It helps that Tommy Brown was playing in the majors around age 16. So, there is another one.

[chadeast]

Here's a similar thread on BO from a couple of years ago.

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?p=14778378

"Curt Simmons, Bobby Brown, Wally Westlake, Gil Coan, Ed Fitzgerald, and Tommy Brown are all in 1949 Bowman and are still alive." - June 2019. We've lost a few since then.

Fun note there about Red Hoff. So cool that someone in T207 was alive in 1998!

[Orioles1954]

1947 Tip Top Bread Eddie Basinski

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by chadeast

Fun note there about Red Hoff. So cool that someone in T207 was alive in 1998!

Maybe not quite as impressive, but I always thought it was cool that the Hall of Famer Bobby Doerr was still with us until 2017, and was in the 1937 R314 Goudey Wide Pens as well as the 1938 Goudey set.

Brian

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by rsdill2

Good question. Best I can tell is Curt Simmons in the '49 Bowman Set.

Oldest living MLBers here: https://www.baseball-almanac.com/pla...ll_Players.php

Several still alive from '50 Bowman, but best I can tell Curt Simmons is the only living player in the '49 set.

Thanx for that link, and happy 80th birthday to #499 Bobby Cox.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Thanx for that link, and happy 80th birthday to #499 Bobby Cox.

A look at that list shows Bobby the 499th oldest living former player.

That's gotta add a little to his step today, huh?



Leon - Is the '47-'66 Exhibit set given credit as a 1947 set?

I wonder how many were actually produced in 1947.
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[whiteymet]

Originally Posted by rsdill2

Good question. Best I can tell is Curt Simmons in the '49 Bowman Set.

Oldest living MLBers here: https://www.baseball-almanac.com/pla...ll_Players.php

Several still alive from '50 Bowman, but best I can tell Curt Simmons is the only living player in the '49 set.

There is an earlier set than 1949 Bowman that Curt Simmons is in. It is the 1948 Philadelphia Bulletin Stand Ups. These are listed in the SCD Standard Catalog.

My set is packed away so I can't send a photo of the Simmons but you can see another example here:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/20314123720...8AAOSwGypeyI0B