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rt did not have cards in this set in fact neither guy was pictured on a topps card until 1967 despite being well into their major league careers i m not sure why short a decent pitcher in his time isn t represented there s long been a rumor that wills declined to sign with topps early in his career because he was unhappy about being passed over for a card in what turned out to be his rookie season but that wasn t exactly true when topps was signing players in 1959 wills was in camp with the detroit tigers and not considered to be an mlb quality player so topps didn t bother signing him to a deal when wills ended up being sent back to the dodgers and making the team he instead signed an exclusive contract with fleer which ended up not working out that well since fleer only put him on a card in 1963 he and topps both deny there was any bad blood and say fleer simply got to him first 7 comments from uncategorized 87 st louis cardinals 02 13 2013 tags bob gibson cincinnati reds dick groat ernio broglio joe pepitone johnny keane ken boyer lou brock mickey mantle new york yankees philadelphia phillies red schoendienst roger maris san francisco giants st louis cardinals stan musial since these team cards feature the roster photo from the previous year s team this cardinals card is the last topps card to feature stan musial as an active player he s in the front row fifth person in from the right musial retired after the 1963 season so he s otherwise not featured in the 64 set red schoendienst is also in this photo third from left he also retired in 1963 the team cards from this set are hard to find well centered and often are cut crooked my version of this card is actually in pretty good shape at least an ex and probably ex mt these cards recap the team leaders from 1963 on the top part of the back of the card then shows the w l record of each pitcher against each team in the league while this card shows 1963 numbers i m using the team card posts to talk about each team s 1964 season the cardinals as you may know won the world series in 1964 in a dramatic seven game series against the new york yankees with the cards trailing the series 2 1 nl mvp ken boyer hit a grand slam in game 4 to give st louis a 4 3 win and turn momentum back in their favor game 5 was another classic with the cards blowing a 2 0 lead in the bottom of the ninth at yankee stadium as tom tresh hit a game tying two run homer with two out after mickey mantle had reached on a dick groat error the cards somehow shook it off and 22 year old catcher tim mccarver decades before annoying world series viewers on fox hit a three run homer in the top of the 10th to win the game yankee stadium wouldn t host another postseason game until 1976 the series went back to st louis but the yanks didn t go quietly roger maris and mantle hit homers to put new york ahead then joe pepitone launched a grand slam that broke the game wide open an the yankees won 8 3 game 7 was somewhat anticlimactic but the yankees managed to make things interesting after falling behind 6 0 bob gibson was working on two days rest and started to tire in the later innings mantle hit a three run bomb to pull the yankees within 6 3 but a boyer homer put the cards back up by four with gibson running on fumes clete boyer and phil linz went deep in the ninth to make it 7 5 but gibson got a popout from bobby richardson to end the series it was the first world series win for the cardinals since 1946 it s amazing really that the cardinals even ended up in the world series they had won 93 games in 1963 finishing six games behind the dodgers who swept the yankees in the world series expecting another good finish in 64 the cardinals instead found their season going south during a rough stretch in june the cards were in eighth place on june 17 and were still under 500 47 48 on july 24 read more 1 comment from uncategorized 314 jerry buchek 02 06 2013 this is the second card made for jerry buchek and it seems as if the baseball experts were thinking he was really ready for the big leagues in 1964 after a fairly dismal audition as a 19 year old in 1961 the trivia question asks who holds the career record for doubles the answer is the same now as it was in 1964 tris speaker with 792 pete rose would eventually move into second place on this list finishing his career at 746 rose had 25 career doubles heading into the 64 season buchek must have been a bit of a hot prospect as he was already in aaa as an 18 year old a solid 1961 season with the portland beavers earned him a call up to the cardinals late in the season but it didn t go particularly well as he batted 133 with no homers and no walks in 93 plate appearances he hit under 200 the next season splitting his time between aa and aaa a solid 1963 season with aaa atlanta earned him a brief promotion and signaled that 1964 would be his chance to make it as a major leaguer that didn t really happen as buchek got just 33 plate appearances in 35 games with the cards though he did appear in four of seven world series games and earned a ring he became a bit more of a regular player in 1965 and 66 with the cardinals splitting his time between second base and shortstop buchek had a tough time getting playing time with julian javier at second and dick groat playing short with groat gone in 1966 buchek had a chance to earn the shortstop job but he eventually lost the gig to dal maxvill buchek appeared in 100 games in 1966 but hit just 236 288 342 with four homers in 313 pa he does have the distinction of hitting the first home run at busch stadium ii read more 2 comments from uncategorized 532 twins rookie stars bud bloomfield joe nossek 02 02 2013 tags bud bloomfield joe nossek minnesota twins there s some competition in the 1964 set but clyde stalcup bud bloomfield is certainly among the least accomplished major leaguers to be depicted in the set this is all relative of course as anyone who even played one game in the majors was accomplished in his own way joe nossek managed to stick around for a few years which is one of the only good things you can say about his playing career this combo rookie card is among the coveted high numbers which are rarer than cards from the previous series all cards above 523 are part of the high set and because of their relative expense most of the cards i don t have yet are from this group i have this one though and i couldn t possibly be more excited i mean it s a miscut and everything sigh bud bloomfield appeared in eight mlb games the first came in september 1963 with the cardinals when he came in as a defensive replacement for ken boyer and didn t get a plate appearance in the offseason he was picked up by the twins and he played seven games for minnesota in 1964 his only big league hit came in the only full game he played he went 1 for 4 with a run scored in a 9 1 win over the angels on may 7 1964 he started the next game but only played four innings he made it into four more games after that and the last two were as a pinch runner his last appearance was june 22 bloomfield had played seven seasons in the minors before making his debut with the cards at age 27 after three years in aa the twins sent him to aaa atlanta for most of the 64 season but he wasn t good there hitting just 217 with a 514 ops and no homers in 236 plate apperances bloomfield hung it up after the season he died in 2011 at the age of 75 joe nossek wasn t much of a big leaguer either but he did manage to hold down a part time role for four full seasons like bloomfield nossek only appeared in seven games in 1964 they both played on may 7 unlike bloomfield nossek was back in 1965 and appeared in 87 games his stats were dismal 218 250 306 with 2 hr and 16 rbis in 183 pa his 1965 topps card was also a combo rookie card and was also a high number and those are even tougher to find these days than the 1964 highs the twins won the al pennant that season and nossek was chosen to start in center field in the world series over jimmie hall in five of the seven games hall was an all star that season and finished 13th in the mvp voting there has to be some more to that story right nossek went 4 for 20 in the series which the twins lost to the dodgers nossek was sold to the a s in 1966 and he put up lackluster numbers in two seasons in kansas city he was out of the big leagues in 1968 and had 12 total plate appearances with oakland and st louis in 1969 and 1970 he ended his career with a 228 batting average and three home runs nossek is mostly known for his work as a coach in the big leagues as he worked for several teams between 1973 and 2003 he spent more than a decade with the white sox and filled in as interim manager a couple times he s currently 72 years old leave a comment from uncategorized 112 bob tillman 01 31 2013 tags bob tillman bobby cox boston red sox dave morehead earl wilson there s very little that s notable about this card of bob tillman other than the catcher s mitt that appears to be freakishly large tillman was a catcher who played nine seasons in mlb mostly because he was a catcher his similar batters list includes legends of the game like kelly stinnett and damon berryhill to be fair tillman actually had a very good 1964 season he set career highs in pretty much every category catching 131 games for the 72 90 red sox he had 17 homers 61 rbis and a 796 ops 116 ops it was the only season in which he collected more than 100 hits he had 118 otherwise tillman was a part time player who never really did much offensively his greatest claim to fame is catching no hitters thrown by earl wilson 1962 and dave morehead 1965 he hit for some power in the minors including 24 hr in aaa in 1960 and followed that up with a rookie season with the red sox in which he hit 14 hr in only 273 pa it s clear the red sox expected him to be a slugger because he hit fourth in his first two career starts tillman homered in his first official at bat he walked twice before that but he wasn t very good in 63 and after the strong 64 campaign he tanked in 65 and 66 midway through the 1967 season the red sox let tillman go to the yankees after playing sparingly in new york the yanks traded him to the atlanta braves for a young third baseman named bobby cox in three seasons as a part timer with the braves tillman hit a not terrible 28 homers in 711 pa but he posted a terrible 211 average 281 obp and 14 doubles the braves traded him to the brewers in december 1970 and the brewers released him february 1971 two months before the season started for some reason topps made a 1971 card for him showing him as a brave i guess they didn t get the memo tillman died of a heart attack in 2000 at the age of 63 leave a comment from uncategorized 35 ed mathews 01 29 2013 tags eddie mathews ernie banks frank robinson hank aaron harmon killebrew mickey mantle mike schmidt milwaukee braves reggie jackson stan musial willie mays this is a card i ve had for more than 20 years i got it in a binder full of old cards i bought at a card show the binder also included a 1954 mathews which i ve since sold the slightly frayed left edge i believe is a result of how the card was originally cut otherwise the card s in pretty good shape as always his name appears as ed on his card as far as i can tell each of his topps cards from 1952 through 1968 showed him as ed mathews although a couple of his all star cards show his name as eddie mathews when he managed the braves in 1973 and 74 his name was listed on his cards as eddie mathews mathews was the braves manager when his longtime teammate hank aaron hit his 715th homer at the beginning of the 1964 season mathews was the active leader in career homers at 422 stan musial retired with 475 after the 1963 season that also ranked him seventh all time at that moment he would hit 90 more home runs over the last five years of his career before retiring as a detroit tiger in 1968 his 500th long ball came as a member of the houston astros in 1967 mathews was just the seventh player to hit 500 homers and he was in the top 10 in career homers from 1961 through 1985 when he was finally bumped off by reggie jackson though he led all active players at the opening of the 1964 season he would eventually be passed on the career list by five players who were active in 1964 aaron willie mays frank robinson harmon killebrew and mickey mantle ernie banks finished tied with mathews at 512 mathews was also the only player to play for the braves in three different cities the team still played in boston when he was a 20 year old rookie in 1952 and he was still with the team when it moved from milwaukee to atlanta in 1966 astonishingly it took five years of eligibility before mathews was voted into the hall of fame despite the fact that he s clearly one of the best hitters of all time especially among third basemen i suppose what turned voters off at the time is the fact that he ended up with a 271 career average a number that was dragged down in his last five years he also of course played with aaron and never was the most notable player on his own team but for a solid dozen seasons mathews was an absolute beast at the plate read more 1 comment from uncategorized 146 indians rookie stars tommy john bob chance 01 28 2013 tags bob chance chuck hinton cleveland indians rocky colavito tommy john washington senators woodie held more than just a surgery tommy john is depicted here on his rookie card alongside 1b of bob chance who played 20 fewer seasons and actually had fewer plate appearances as a hitter than john this is probably one of the worst cards i have condition wise but it was dirt cheap so i picked it up a couple years ago much is written about tommy john so i ll focus here on 1964 instead of his full career who pitched for 26 years and was rejuvenated after undergoing the elbow ligament replacement procedure that came to bear his name to put john s longevity in perspective he was an active player until 1989 no other player depicted in the 1964 set was still playing that recently he outlasted pete rose by three seasons john reportedly decided to hang it up at age 46 when he gave up a home run to mark mcgwire whose dad was his dentist this card is the only one to portray john in indians gear he came up late in the 1963 season as a 20 year old and pitched pretty well in 20 2 3 innings and that earned him a spot in the cleveland rotation in 1964 the 1964 season started out great for john who threw a complete game three hit shutout against the orioles in his first start of the season things went south from there and he only lasted 1 3 of an inning the next time out he didn t pitch all that poorly after that allowing three or fewer earned runs in six consecutive starts from june 3 july 1 unfortunately he lost all six starts the indians offense was a bit anemic after an awful start against kansas city on july 16 which ironically earned him a no decision the indians sent john to the 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