CLOSED...1961 Topps $15 Auction...Day 36

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Here’s a few more for your viewing pleasure! Probably the most intriguing is Dave Nicholson, who set an MLB record for strikeouts, with 175, while hitting majestic homers in the process. The crazy thing is, that when he set that record in 1963, you would have thought that, sure, it will be broken some day. Well, the style of the game is different, I suppose, because in that category, with his 175 K’s, he is now in 78th place. Bobby Bonds broke the record in 1969, then again in 1970. So Nicholson was 3rd, until Rob Deer and Pete Incaviglia passed him in 1986. Then the flood gates opened at the turn of the century, with players striking out 200 times with regularity. Nicholson was before my time, but I bet he wasn’t unlike a guy I used to like watching in Wrigley Field, Dave Kingman. Talk about majestic blasts!! He used to hit the highest, longest homers of anybody I ever saw. It was like the old days of football when they timed hang time. Do they still do that? I don’t know, don’t watch the NFL. But Kingman had hang time. No liners into the seats for him. They didn’t have that northern runway at O’Hare back then, I don’t think, which was probably a good thing, with Kingman up. Anyway, Nicholson seems like a 60s Kingman to me, and that makes him pretty cool in my book. Have a great one today!

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123 cards, at 41 cents each, shipped