In the actual game, the NL had Juan Marichal, Joe Torre, Bill Mazeroski, and Richie Allen starting at P, C, 2B, and 3B respectively. The AL featured Dean Chance, Rico Petrocelli, and Tony Conigliaro starting at P, SS, and RF. Otherwise, the starters were those you see in the 2 large blocks of cards below. Surprisingly, Joe Morgan, Ron Santo, and Ken Holtzman were not even on the actual All-Star roster in 1967, yet all were picked for the first team by The Sporting News.
Four of the six outfielders started at their natural position, while Hank Aaron and Tony Oliva each started in centerfield.
Oh, The Sporting News selected 2 pitchers in each league, 1 lefty and 1 righty, so...
The backs of these 20 cards formed 2 photos - Orlando Cepeda and Carl Yastrzemski. Contrary to what I would have thought, the 2 puzzles were not made exclusively from the player cards from Cepeda's or Yaz' own league. (My scanner bed is not large enough to hold all 10 cards, hence the cut-off tops.)
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3 comments:
I always loved when Topps did the All Star cards in their vintage sets. I understand it was a way to have more cards of some of the top stars but so what. For the most part they were always sharp looking cards.
Erik,
I liked them also, and although it meant additional cards for some players, at least back then Topps made cards for about 25 players per team.
Unlike now, when they exclude at least 1/3 of the roster, have multiple cards for a few top stars, and insist on including retired players like Mantle, etc, which IMO is out of context for the set.
(Aside from assembling Phillies' team sets) I haven't bought current baseball cards since 1993, except for the momentary weakness of buying the 2010 Topps base set 1st series. Those cards were bland, and the players names practically unreadable with the silver text. Never again!
I have no baseball cards after the year 1975 though I do like some later sets but not enough to go back and buy or collect.
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