5th oldest living HOFer....Stan Musial

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Well, there is a very interesting pattern in the BB card sets primarily issued during the 1950's, that Stan Musial and Ted Williams
appeared in.
Wayne Grove mentioned in an earlier post here regarding Musial's absence in many sets....that Musial.."replied that they did not
want to pay him anymore than they paid anyone else".

My guess in many instances, is that "anyone else" was Ted Williams......this is somewhat implied in their alternate appearance in
many of the following sets.


MUSIAL and WILLIAMS together.....

1947 Homogenized Bond Bread
1949 Leaf
1951 Wheaties
1952 Wheaties
1952 Berk Ross
1958 Topps (All Star)....1st Topps card, (Triple Printed in last series)


MUSIAL only......

1948 Bowman
1949 Bowman
1951 Berk Ross
1952 Bowman
1953 Bowman

1959 Topps
1960 Topps
1961 Topps
1962 Topps
1963 Topps


WILLIAMS only......

1950 Bowman
1951 Bowman
1954 Bowman

1954 Topps (#1 card & last card)
1955 Topps
1955 Topps Double-Header
1956 Topps
1956 Topps Hocus Focus
1957 Topps (#1 card)
1958 Topps (#1 card & All Star card)

1959 Fleer
1960 Fleer
1961 Fleer


TED Z