1972 Wilt VS. Kareem...

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Originally Posted by Troy Kirk

Looks like Wilt has his jersey reversed on his 1972 card to show his name on the front.

The story goes that some of the players believed a rumor that they would lose some $$ from Topps if the team name showed up on the card. Something about copyrights or trademarks or something like that. Jerseys also show up backwards on the 1971-72 cards. Many times the whole, or most of, a team will have their jerseys reversed while other teams hadn't heard the rumor and kept their jerseys on correctly. Some of the Celtics look really goofy because the back of the jersey collar is really high.



Back to the OPs point, Pete Rose is on 9 cards in the 1986 Topps set, though that set comes in at 792 cards, for an overall appearance rate of 1.14%. But wait a minute Chester. Pete also makes an appearance on the wax box top and on the bottom panel, bringing his rate to 1.4% (11/792). So while his appearance rate can't compete with Wilt, his total number of hits ties him for first. And I won't mention that on 6 of those 11 cards, he is pictured 4 times on each card, for a grand total of 29 pictures of Pete in the 1986 set which sets the Hit King on the throne for most appearances in a set.

Pete most assuredly deserves HOF induction, if for no other reason than that.