What is the Oldest Set with a Living Player?

[Orioles1954]

1947 Tip Top Bread Eddie Basinski

[packs]

Never heard of Tommy Brown before. What an odd career. A 9 year veteran who was out of the game by 25.

[egri]

Originally Posted by packs

Never heard of Tommy Brown before. What an odd career. A 9 year veteran who was out of the game by 25.

Carl Scheib was the same way; he came up at 16 and was out of baseball at 27.

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

1947 Tip Top Bread Eddie Basinski

"What is the Oldest Set with a Living Player ?"

Then, I would say Orioles1954 has the correct answer....Eddie Basinski, who is 98 years old and is featured in the 1947 TIP TOP Bread set.

Now let's slightly modify this...."What is the Oldest Set with the Oldest Living Player ?"

Then, of course we know Eddie Robinson is currently the oldest at 100 years old.

I believe the correct answer to this one is the 1950 BOWMAN set.

As an avid Yankees fan when I was a young dude, I really looked forward to seeing Eddie Robinson come to bat, for he was a great clutch-hitter.
But, Eddie was in the 3rd slot as 1st Baseman with Joe Collins and Moose Skowron on the Yankees roster. In 1955, Eddie had more runs batted
in (42) than hits (36) and slugged an amazing 16 home runs in only 173 at bats to set a HR-to-AB ratio record that still stands.








TED Z

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[FrankWakefield]

Thanks, Ted, for those great memories...

I'm unsure when I first bought ball cards... may have been a pack or two of 1963 Topps.

That's a nice Robinson card, and a great wrapper.

Chester Hoff... I can imagine a young Hoff with the 'quick breaking curve' throwing that left handed breaking crap up there to Ty Cobb, who had no mental book about what to expect... Maybe he was sitting on fastball and never saw it.

People need to talk with those players still living, record them, and preserve that for generations to come.

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Thanks, Ted, for those great memories...

I'm unsure when I first bought ball cards... may have been a pack or two of 1963 Topps.

That's a nice Robinson card, and a great wrapper.

Chester Hoff... I can imagine a young Hoff with the 'quick breaking curve' throwing that left handed breaking crap up there to Ty Cobb, who had no mental book about what to expect... Maybe he was sitting on fastball and never saw it.

People need to talk with those players still living, record them, and preserve that for generations to come.

Frank

I have been very, very fortunate to have lengthy (and short) conversations with players that we grew up with. Namely, Ted Williams, Don Larsen, Johnny Mize, Billy Martin,
Denny McLain, Bill White, Yogi Berra, Tommy Henrich, and Phil Rizzuto (my long ago neighbor in Hillside, NJ). Those were my lengthy ones (30 minutes to several hours).
Shorter conversations with Joe DiMaggio, Duke Snider, Jim Bunning, Sparky Lyle, Goose Gossage, Roy White, and many more.

My recollection of these conversations amazes me in that I can recite most of them. Although after these conversations, I did record them by writing them in my tablet.

As for "recording" them live, I am ambivalent about doing so, simply because I get the feeling that most of these guys just want to have a normal one-on-one conversation.
Anyway, your suggestion is a good one.

Postscript...... the most memorable ones were with TW, the Scooter, Mr. Perfect, Johnny Mize, and Bill White.
After a very pleasant conversation with Bill White in the early 1990's, I was set-up at the HOF weekend BB card Show in Cooperstown Two teenage gals came to my table
asking for Bill White cards. I showed them 8 cards. They said...."we will take all of them". Then they smiled and told me Bill White was their Dad. They were so charming,
telling me some interesting stories about their Dad.


TED Z

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