#23 Frank Robinson
by delias man on Oct 22, 2010 11:09 AM PDT
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I have always tried to sneak in HOF players into my collection whenever possible. Could not pass up an opportunity to get in one of the all-time greats in his only year in A Dodger uniform.
How did he become a Dodger? Traded by the Orioles with Pete Richert to the Dodgers for Doyle Alexander, Bob O'Brien, Sergio Robles and Royle Stillman. Whatever.
Back to the card... I guess Topps wanted us to know that he was surely traded with this huge TRADED stamp across the front of it. Frank appears to have had his picture taken at some point in Florida during Spring Training.
I never knew that the Dodgers wore a stripe on the sleeves until I started paying attention to this card. There will be more examples soon as we will be visiting 1972 Topps again later in the countdown. For the record, I like the stripe.
1972...well I do not like the design of the card too much, but it is rare, and it is Frank Robinson. 547 of these have been submitted to PSA, 38 PSA 9's, and only 3 PSA 10's! I assume Dimitri Young owns at least one of the 10's.
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Very cool
I have honestly never seen a card with a big stamp like that on it.
Was this sort of thing common?
Well, to be clear it's not a stamp
it is printed. but it was common for Topps to make traded notations in different ways in the 70’s and early 80’s. This was the most obvious one I have ever seen.
Classic "traded" stamp
I believe the first actual Topps Traded set (a set separate from the regular set) was 1974, so they had to improvise like this in earlier years.
I love this card.
The first year of cards that I inherited from my brothers was 1974 (I found a shoe box with cards from 1974-1980), so I never got much into the 1970-1973 cards (or the 1981-1984 ones for that matter; my first year of collecting was 1985). It is always fun to look back on those cards from the early 1970s.
I have this card
Doyle Alexander was our 20 year old wonder kid prospect pitcher when we made that deal. I’m sure many here would have been unhappy trading the future for the oft injured Robby.
We then traded him and a plethora of my favorite Dodgers to the Angels for Messersmith and McMullen
Los Angeles Dodgers with Billy Grabarkewitz, Bill Singer, Mike Strahler and Bobby Valentine to the California Angels for Ken McMullen and Andy Messersmith.
Seriously ever person in the Dodger I was a big fan of. Good thing Messersmith was awesome and Gabby never got healthy, Valentine broke his ankle, Singer became a drunk, and Strahler stalled.
FTFY
Singer became a racist drunk,
Doyle Alexander was traded for two HOFers, Robinson and Smoltz (assuming he gets in). I wonder how many players were traded in two different deals where an HOFer went the other way?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Gary Sheffield
was traded for Mike Piazza and Trevor Hoffman in separate deals. Course he was never the only piece and neither Piazza or Hoffman were the only players received in return.
I don't always walk, but when I do, it's into Mordor.
Frank was in
eight post season series and hit at least one home run in seven of them. Eight home runs in 26 World Series games.
My scanner isn't currently hooked up
but I bought a pack of 2010 Topps Series 2 cards today at Target, and they have some replica cards featuring players (either current or historical) in the style of the cards. I got a 1976 Topps Jackie Robinson, which of course never existed. Luckily I was able to find a picture online. Pretty sweet:
Frank had a regular 1972 card as well
I think all the 1972 Traded cards were in the last series, and series were released over time, so the last series had a shorter print run and are rarer. I bet a lot of high series wax packs ended up in dumpsters, having gone unsold because kids stopped buying cards that late in the season.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Those are so hard to find when set collecting for those older sets.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 22, 2010 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
For the Record
I like the card and implementing the HOF player in your countdown.
I hate the stripe. It should die a long and painful death.
I’m enjoying the series.
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