Cards "missing" from a player's career

[u2me57]

That is weird about Killebrew. He has a 1975 Topps Twins card. I have a 1975 SSPC Killebrew card, but it's in a Royals uniform. No 76 or 77 Killebrew cards. Looks like he has more cards from the 2000's than the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's combined.

 

[tpeichel]

So who's in the ultimate "blink and you'll miss it" set for hall of famers and stars. Here's what I have to start

Babe Ruth Braves
Harmon Killebrew KC Royals
Steve Carlton Indians
Dave Winfield Indians
Duke Snider Mets

METS	SNIDER,DUKE	1986	Sports Design Products #20

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INDIANS	CARLTON,STEVE	1987	Fleer Glossy Update #U-17

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INDIANS	WINFIELD,DAVE	1995	Collectors Choice #115
INDIANS	WINFIELD,DAVE	1995	Stadium Club Super Team World Series #533

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[tpeichel]

Juan Marichal and Tom Seaver. Both with the Red Sox.

RED SOX	SEAVER,TOM	1986	Broder Type - Rob Broder #47 of 50 (no border/round corners/Photos by Rob Broder on back)
RED SOX	SEAVER,TOM	1987	Broder Type - Action Superstars #02 (no border/blue text on back)
RED SOX	SEAVER,TOM	1987	Fleer Glossy #45
RED SOX	SEAVER,TOM	1987	OPC #49
RED SOX	SEAVER,TOM	1987	OPC Sticker #246 (Andres Galaragga/Tom Seaver)
RED SOX	SEAVER,TOM	1987	Sportflics #28
RED SOX	SEAVER,TOM	1987	Topps Sticker #246 (blue print on back/Made in Italy)-(Andres Galaragga/Tom Seaver)
RED SOX	SEAVER,TOM	1987	Topps Sticker #246 Hard Back/Test Issue (blue print on back/ No "Made in Italy")-(Andres Galaragga/Tom Seaver)
RED SOX	SEAVER,TOM	1987	Topps Tiffany #306
RED SOX	SEAVER,TOM	1987	Topps Tiffany #425

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[tpeichel]

Juan Marichal and Tom Seaver. Both with the Red Sox.

 

[tpeichel]

See, most of those players wouldn't really qualify for me, as they had plenty of cards with those teams. Seaver, for instance, had 1986 and 1987 card with the Red Sox, not to mention some from the Pacific Seaver set.

Killebrew on KC is a good one, Marichal on the Dodgers is another (I see a whopping 4 of those!). Same with Carlton on Cleveland, but he was only on a Topps/OPC box bottom card as a Giant during his career (until DLP came around and made a bunch in the mid 2000's).

Carlton had a few more on the Giants.

GIANTS	CARLTON,STEVE	1986	Donruss Highlights #35
GIANTS	CARLTON,STEVE	1987	Broder Type - Action Superstars #12 (no border/blue text on back)
GIANTS	CARLTON,STEVE	1987	OPC Wax Box Card #B
GIANTS	CARLTON,STEVE	1987	Topps Baseball Highlights #1
GIANTS	CARLTON,STEVE	1987	Topps Wax Box Card #B

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[tpeichel]

George Brett didn't have a 1993 Donruss card. He did, however, have a 1993 Donruss Preview card. Oops.

On the topic of "Don't Blink", I dug up a few more possibilities:

Goose Gossage with Pittsburgh (only a 1977 newspaper "card" and two cards from 2013 Cooperstown) and his 1989 stint with the Yankees (only a 1990 Donruss card and a PI sticker). I'd say his even shorter stint with the 1989 Giants is under-represented as well, but there's 18 cards from 2012 Prime Cuts and NT that have him as a Giant.

If I'm not mistaken, Phil Niekro had but one card as a Blue Jay; a 1988 Classic Red card, a set that also showed him as an Indian, and from his last 1987 stint as a Brave.

Robin Roberts has a 1962 Topps card as a Yankee, a team he never played for in a regular season game. He has exactly zero cards picturing him as a Cub, a team he actually did pitch for (albeit poorly) in 1966.

Gossage has a couple more with Pirates:

PIRATES	GOSSAGE,GOOSE	1977	Hostess #128
PIRATES	GOSSAGE,GOOSE	1978	Kelloggs #08

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[tpeichel]

George Brett didn't have a 1993 Donruss card. He did, however, have a 1993 Donruss Preview card. Oops.

On the topic of "Don't Blink", I dug up a few more possibilities:

Goose Gossage with Pittsburgh (only a 1977 newspaper "card" and two cards from 2013 Cooperstown) and his 1989 stint with the Yankees (only a 1990 Donruss card and a PI sticker). I'd say his even shorter stint with the 1989 Giants is under-represented as well, but there's 18 cards from 2012 Prime Cuts and NT that have him as a Giant.

If I'm not mistaken, Phil Niekro had but one card as a Blue Jay; a 1988 Classic Red card, a set that also showed him as an Indian, and from his last 1987 stint as a Brave.

Robin Roberts has a 1962 Topps card as a Yankee, a team he never played for in a regular season game. He has exactly zero cards picturing him as a Cub, a team he actually did pitch for (albeit poorly) in 1966.

That Blue Jays card for Niekro seems to be the only one. Robin Roberts is depicted as a Yankee in the 1986 Sports Card Design set as well as that 1962 Topps.

 

[tpeichel]

George Brett didn't have a 1993 Donruss card. He did, however, have a 1993 Donruss Preview card. Oops.

On the topic of "Don't Blink", I dug up a few more possibilities:

Goose Gossage with Pittsburgh (only a 1977 newspaper "card" and two cards from 2013 Cooperstown) and his 1989 stint with the Yankees (only a 1990 Donruss card and a PI sticker). I'd say his even shorter stint with the 1989 Giants is under-represented as well, but there's 18 cards from 2012 Prime Cuts and NT that have him as a Giant.

If I'm not mistaken, Phil Niekro had but one card as a Blue Jay; a 1988 Classic Red card, a set that also showed him as an Indian, and from his last 1987 stint as a Brave.

Robin Roberts has a 1962 Topps card as a Yankee, a team he never played for in a regular season game. He has exactly zero cards picturing him as a Cub, a team he actually did pitch for (albeit poorly) in 1966.

This is the only item I've found with Gossage as a Giant.

GIANTS	GOSSAGE,GOOSE	1990	Publication International Trivia Sticker

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[goobmcnasty]

So who's in the ultimate "blink and you'll miss it" set for hall of famers and stars. Here's what I have to start

Babe Ruth Braves
Harmon Killebrew KC Royals
Steve Carlton Indians
Dave Winfield Indians
Duke Snider Mets

I'd add the following to the list.
Willie Mays Mets
Mike Piazza Marlins
Ken Griffey Jr. White Sox

 

[tpeichel]

I'd at the following to the list.
Willie Mays Mets
Mike Piazza Marlins
Ken Griffey Jr. White Sox

Mays has a handful of Mets cards, especially in recent years. A couple from 1993 and this '74 Topps.

 

[Will Style 13]

Man I'm loving this thread. These types of cards were always fascinating for me. Here are a couple that I know of at least one or two cards.

Graig Nettles Expos - 88 Score Traded, 1989 Score
Mario Soto Dodgers - 89 Score
Phil Niekro Blue Jays 88 Classic Red
Boog Powell Dodgers - 90 Dodgers Target
Jim Eisenreich Dodgers - 99 Upper Deck
Fernando Valenzuela Cardinals - 98 Collector's Choice, 98 Upper Deck
Kent Tekulve Reds - 89 Topps Traded, 89 Kahn's
Jack Morris Reds - 95 Collector's Choice

I couldn't find any for these
Fernando Valenzuela Angels


I'll have to think of some more.

 

[tpeichel]

Man I'm loving this thread. These types of cards were always fascinating for me. Here are a couple that I know of at least one or two cards.

Graig Nettles Expos - 88 Score Traded, 1989 Score
Mario Soto Dodgers - 89 Score
Phil Niekro Blue Jays 88 Classic Red
Boog Powell Dodgers - 90 Dodgers Target
Jim Eisenreich Dodgers - 99 Upper Deck
Fernando Valenzuela Cardinals - 98 Collector's Choice, 98 Upper Deck
Kent Tekulve Reds - 89 Topps Traded, 89 Kahn's
Jack Morris Reds - 95 Collector's Choice

I couldn't find any for these
Fernando Valenzuela Angels


I'll have to think of some more.

Those are all good ones. The only one I could add is this:

REDS	TEKULVE,KENT	1990	Publication International Trivia Sticker

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[DaClyde]

So who's in the ultimate "blink and you'll miss it" set for hall of famers and stars. Here's what I have to start
Dave Winfield Indians

I wouldn't qualify Winfield for the set, he had a full run of 1995 cards with Cleveland, and almost all but Topps gave him a card in 1996.

 

[DeliciousBacon]

Carlton had a few more on the Giants.

GIANTS	CARLTON,STEVE	1986	Donruss Highlights #35
GIANTS	CARLTON,STEVE	1987	Broder Type - Action Superstars #12 (no border/blue text on back)
GIANTS	CARLTON,STEVE	1987	OPC Wax Box Card #B
GIANTS	CARLTON,STEVE	1987	Topps Baseball Highlights #1
GIANTS	CARLTON,STEVE	1987	Topps Wax Box Card #B

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I'm not surprised you dug up a few more of these guys. My info comes from the Beckett checklists, and I did have a feeling some of their team breakdowns may not be 100% accurate.

Man I'm loving this thread. These types of cards were always fascinating for me. Here are a couple that I know of at least one or two cards.

Graig Nettles Expos - 88 Score Traded, 1989 Score
Mario Soto Dodgers - 89 Score
Phil Niekro Blue Jays 88 Classic Red
Boog Powell Dodgers - 90 Dodgers Target
Jim Eisenreich Dodgers - 99 Upper Deck
Fernando Valenzuela Cardinals - 98 Collector's Choice, 98 Upper Deck
Kent Tekulve Reds - 89 Topps Traded, 89 Kahn's
Jack Morris Reds - 95 Collector's Choice

I couldn't find any for these
Fernando Valenzuela Angels


I'll have to think of some more.

Those are all good ones! I completely forgot about Nettles and Morris, and I actually did not know Tekulve ended up with the Reds. That Powell gets me, I collect the guy and only had a very faint idea he played with the Dodgers.

 

[mrmopar]

73 Topps was his own card as a Met.

Mays has a handful of Mets cards, especially in recent years. A couple from 1993 and this '74 Topps.

 

[mrmopar]

Pacific was good for catching guys in oddball uniforms and oddball sets were great at times as well. The Target Dodger set, but also their Keebler, Police and Mothers Cookie sets that ran for many years. Lots of teams have sets like that too. I learned of a lot of cameos when i was compiling a list of all the LA Dodgers so I could get autographs.

 

[DeliciousBacon]

I think there's only a couple of cards from Ron Cey's brief stint with the A's in 1987 (Topps Traded and Tiffany, plus a 1987 OPC with the famous "Now With" tag). Same with Doug Decinces for his whopping 9 ABs with the 1987 Cards (1988 Fleer and Glossy, and an OPC "Now With"). Not exactly stars, but two guys with lengthy careers that finished them in forgettable ways with odd teams.

Also, I'm too lazy to look right now - any Hideo Nomo Royals cards?

 

[Will Style 13]

I think there's only a couple of cards from Ron Cey's brief stint with the A's in 1987 (Topps Traded and Tiffany, plus a 1987 OPC with the famous "Now With" tag). Same with Doug Decinces for his whopping 9 ABs with the 1987 Cards (1988 Fleer and Glossy, and an OPC "Now With"). Not exactly stars, but two guys with lengthy careers that finished them in forgettable ways with odd teams.

Also, I'm too lazy to look right now - any Hideo Nomo Royals cards?

 

[383astro]

Steve Carlton was in 65 Topps but had no 66 card and Killebrew had a 55 and 56 but no 57

 

[mrmopar]

Lou Piniella had some gaps, but at the same time had more than his share of rookie star cards too!

http://cardsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-many-many-rookie-cards-of-lou.html