CLOSED!! 1972 Topps Reverse/Trade Auction...August version, Day 16!

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Here's a couple more for today!

453 Barry Lersch ExMt
286 Gene Alley NrMt
466 Norm Miller NrMt

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Here's a couple more to throw on the stack! Kekich will always be remembered as the guy who traded families with his teammate...a bit weird, perhaps...

138 Mike Kekich ExMt
196 Mel Queen ExMt
204 Tommy Helms NrMt

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Here's today's additions! Kasko managed the Red Sox to a second place finish in 1972, a half-game out of first. That seems a bit weird, but they did not make up lost games to a brief player's strike that year, so the Sox just lost out to a scheduling quirk.

217 Roger Metzger NrMt
218 Eddie Kasko ExMt
248 Tom Bradley NrMt

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Here's a few more! I always hated cards that weren't "right," like a pitcher, in the stretch, wearing a batting helmet. But I do like that Concepcion's name wraps all the way around his body!!

267 Dave Concepcion ExMt
354 Tom Murphy NrMt
450 Mickey Lolich ExMt

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Wednesday morning's offerings! Is it just me, or does it look like Woodie Fryman was trying to sneak up on the camera man, maybe to give him a wedgie or something... but he turned around quickly and got the shot?

And in the category of "That's the most ridiculous thing ever," I present this about Mickey Lolich. In 1971, the year commemorated on this leader card, Lolich pitched 376 innings. Do you realize how unachievable that is today? Let's plug that number into the 5-man rotation of today. In 162 games, a starter would get 32.5 starts if he pitched every fifth start. So if you did that today, pitched 32.5 games, or every fifth day... do you have any idea how many innings you would have to average, per start, to get to 376 IP?

The answer is 11.5 IP/start. Yep, over eleven innings per start, for the whole year! I'm pretty sure nobody is coming close to that number anytime soon. And it's not even the post WWI record... Wilbur Wood beat him by 2/3 of an inning the next year. That's just crazy... I'm tipping an Odell Brewing Drumroll American Pale Ale to Mickey Lolich. I'd eat a donut if I had one.

94 AL Pitching Leaders Ex
357 Woody Fryman NrMt
381 Chicago White Sox Ex

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OK, I'm a little early for Wednesday's installment, but I have to get up early...so here it is:

426 Ken Singleton IA NrMt
461 Tim Cullen NrMt
401 Jim Nash NrMt

Is that a fur-lined batting glove that Cullen has on? Is that what allowed him to hit .220? In 1968, Cullen was traded from Washington to the White Sox for Ron Hansen. Halfway through the season, the White Sox traded him back to Washington. For Ron Hansen. Those are the kind of moves that win GM of The Year awards...

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Here's a couple for today! It's too bad the T205 set didn't have those IA cards or the World Series cards, because those were pretty cool...

229 World Series Game 7 NrMt
69 Roger Freed NrMt
428 Tito Fuentes IA ExMt