1965 Topps All-Star Rookie Cup Team (1966 Topps Set)

This is an index to postings related to the 1965 Topps All-Star Rookie Team which was honored with cards in the 1966 Topps set. The Set includes Futures Philles and Hall of Famers Joe Morgan and Tony Perez. There is also Pat Corrales who I plan to honor in a posting if I ever return to regular columns. Jose Cardenal is among the Future Phillies on this squad. 

1966 Topps #72 Tony Perez

72	TONY PEREZ HOF	Reds	1B
195	JOE MORGAN HOF	Astros	2B
376	PAUL SCHAAL	Angels	3B
298	RICO PETROCELLI	Red Sox	SS
35	RON SWOBODA	Mets	OF
460	CURT BLEFARY	Orioles	OF
505	JOSE CARDENAL	Angels	OF
137	PAT CORRALES (Phils/Cards)	Cardinals	C
78	FRANK LINZY	Giants	RHP
155	MARCELINO LOPEZ	Angels	LHP

SNUBS ? 

#93 Jim Lonborg Red Sox RHP (nope)

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All-Star Rookie Master Index

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1960s Topps All-Star Rookie Cup Tournament - Finals!!!

Our Final features two teams from the Middle 1960s. The challenger is the overall #4 seeded 1966 squad Oliva's Army led by fresh HOF inductee Tony Oliva. They will face #1 seeded team from 1965 captained by Joe Morgan. Both teams enter the final undefeated at 4-0. 

1960s Final Game 1:

Oliva's Army 1965 (4-0)	2 - 8 - 1
Little Joe's 1966 (4-0)	1 - 5 - 0
W: Wally Bunker (3-0)	L: Frank Linzy (2-1)
HR: None

 

Oliva's Army gets the upset in game 1, Wally Bunker moves to (3-0) as he shuts down Little Joe's on 5 hits and a single run. 

Game 2

Oliva's Army 1965 (5-0)	4 - 6 - 0
Little Joe's 1966 (4-1)	5 - 9 - 3
W: Marcelino Lopez (3-0)	L: Bill McCool (2-1)
HR: Joe Morgan 66 2 (2), Bert Campaneris 65 (1)

Little Joe's Even the series behind a pair of Home Runs from the Captain himself. 

Game 3

Oliva's Army 1965 (5-1)	0 - 6 - 3
Little Joe's 1966 (5-1)	1 - 11 - 1
W: Frank Linzy (3-1)	L: Wally Bunker (3-1)
HR: None

For the 2nd time in the final Frank Linzy and Wally Bunker square off in a pitchers battle. Linzy (3-1)  avenges his game 1 loss with a 6-hit shutout. The W gives Little Joe's a 2-1 advantage going into game 4. 

Game 4

Oliva's Army 1965 (5-2)	5 - 7 - 0
Little Joe's 1966 (6-1)	6 - 7 - 0
W: Marcelino Lopez (4-0)	L: Bill McCool (2-2)
HR: Tony Perez 66 2 (3 ,4), Bert Campaneris 65 (2),

 

Little Joe's capture the 1960s Tournament with a 6-5 victory over Oliva's Army.

Tony Perez hits a pair of Home Runs to run his tournament total to 4 and takes home MVP Honors

1966 Topps Tony Perez

Marcelino Lopez goes through the tournament undefeated with 4 victories. 

Final Standings - All-Star Rookie Tournament 1960s

	Final Standings	W	L
1	Little Joe's 1966	7	1
2	Oliva's Army 1965	5	3
3	Charlie's Hustlers 1964	2	3
4	Team Boog 1963	4	4
5	Team Mad Hits 1968	1	2
6	Team Davey J 1967	1	2
7	Team Torre 1962	2	2
8	Bench No Drips 1969	0	2
9	Santos Squad 1961	1	2
10	Team McCovey 1960	0	2

Biggest Surprise 1963 Team Boog seeded 7th finished 4th

Biggest Disappointment 1969 Bench No Drips 5th Seed finished 8th

Stats

	Pitching	W	L	Pct	O/U .500
1960	Jim O'Toole	0	1	.000	-1
	Jim Perry	0	1	.000	-1
1961	Chuck Estrada	1	1	.500	0
	Dick Stigman	0	1	.000	-1
1962	Don Schwall	1	1	.500	0
	Jack Curtis	1	1	.500	0
1963	Al Jackson	3	1	.750	2
	Dean Change	1	3	.250	-2
1964	Ray Culp	1	1	.500	0
	Gary Peters	1	2	.333	-1
1965	Wally Bunker	3	1	.750	2
	Bill McCool	2	2	.500	0
1966	Marcelino Lopez	4	0	1.000	4
	Frank Linzy	3	1	.750	2
1967	Jim Nash	1	1	.500	0
	Woody Fryman)	0	1	.000	-1
1968	Dick Hughes	1	0	1.000	1
	Tom Seaver	0	2	.000	-2
1969	Jerry Koosman	0	1	.000	-1
	Stan Bahnsen	0	1	.000	-1

	Home Runs
Tony Perez 66 2 (3 ,4),	4
Bert Campaneris 65 (2)	2
Joe Morgan 66 2 (2)	2
Manny Jimenenez 63 (2)	2
Rod Carew 68 2 (2)	2
Tom Tresh 63 (1)	2
Jim Gentile 61 (1),	1
Tommy Davis 61 (1)	1
Curt Blefary 66 (1)	1
Dick Allen 65 (1)	1
Ed Charles 63 (1),	1
Floyd Robinson 62 (1),	1
Fred Whitfield 63 (1),	1
George Scott 67 (1)	1
Jimmie Hall 64 (1),	1
Joe Torre 62 (1)	1
Lee May, 68 (1)	1
Mike Brumley 65 (1)	1
Paul Schall 66 (1), )	1
Rico Carty 65 (1)	1
Ron Swoboda 66 (1)	1
Sonny Jackson 67 (1)	1
Tommie Agee 67	1
Tommy Harper 64 (1	1
Tony Conigliaro 65 (1),	1

Whats Next

Now that we have found the best rookie cup team of the 1960s we are going to move to a more recent decade.

We have the 1990s Rookie Cup All-Stars tournament on-deck!

2016 Topps Gypsy Queen Rack Pack Break

Picked up a Rack Pack of Gypsy Queen at the big T this week. The rack went for $10 and included three 6-card packs plus a "bonus" 3-card pack of framers.

Here are the highlights althoug GQ really isn't my thing - pithy comments will be minimal.

2016 Topps Gypsy Queen Gary Sanchez (base & framed)

One of the three framed cards I picked up was Yankees prospect Gary Sanchez, We also picked up the base card which gives us the opportunity to put up the above side/side.

2016 Topps Gypsy Queen #321 Tony Perez (sp)

The bottom 50 cards in the GQ set are short-prints of retired players, mostly Hall of Famers. Thankfully the HOF SPs doen't interfere with building a set including today's stars.  We will hopefully return to this one in our 1976 ASG feature. And there is a Sloppy Topps issue with this card as well. 

2016 Topps Gypsy Queen Andrelton Simmons,  Jayson Heyward, Scott Kazmir, Zach Greinke 

The April release date for GQ gives Topps more of an opportunity to photoshop players into their new unis. There were at least the above four among our 18 cards. 

2016 Topps GQ #133 Mike Trout

I am all for card photos from other POV, but this one strikes me as a lil dull for a superstar of Trout's caliber.

2016 Topps GQ Power Alley PA-7 Dave Winfield

Home Run Hitters Insert.

2016 Topps Mini MVP #MVPM-BL Barry Larkin

Between this and the Perez SP it was kind of a Reds Hot Pack. Neither the Power Alley nor Mini MVP insert sets contain any Phillies.

Alex Cobb, Mike Moustakas, Charlie Blackmon, Yasiel Puig

The rest of our minis and framed cards are above.

21 Cards no Phillies.

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1970 Topps #380 Hall of Famer Tony Perez

The Phillies are in Cincinnati to face the Reds this week and today I would like to take a look at Hall of Famer Tony Perez.  Perez was a member of the Big Red Machine teams of the 1970s as well as the Phillies Wheeze Kids squad.

1970 Topps #380 Tony Perez

The "Wheeze Kids" were the 1983 Philadelphia Phillies - the monicker was a play on "The Whiz Kids" who were the much younger 1950 Phillies. Despite the differences in player ages the two teams had some things in common, most notably representing the National League in the World Series.

The Wheeze Kids had several former Big Red Machine stars on the squad including Future Hall of Famer Joe Mogan and current baseball exile Pete Rose. The other notable Red and Future HoF was Tony Perez

Perez's Hall of Fame resume includes 2 World Championships(75-76) with the Reds. In addition to those World Series squads and the Phils 83 team Perez was also a member of 2 other Reds NLCS teams.  Tony Perez made a total of 6 trips to the postseason - amassing 189 Plate appearance which is pretty good for the era. He has 6 post season Home Runs including 3 in the 1975 World Series v Boston.

His regular seaon career numbers include 379 Home Runs, 1652 RBIs and 2732 Hits. 

Wiki

Tony Perez was born in Cuba and was signed by the Reds in 1960.  Apparently he was able to get out of the country prior to the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution and severing of ties with the US. Perez has been allowed to return to Cuba a couple of times, His son Eduardo played for the Reds and has been a commentator for ESPN. 

1970 Topps #380

This card has some new information to me.  To me Perez was always a first baseman.  The Reds Thirdbaseman of the 1970s was always Pete Rose.  This of course is not true if you go back a few years.  In the early 70s Perez was the 3B and Rose was playing Right Field - one of many positions the gambler would play.

For the Collector

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I picked up the 1970 Perez card above in March of 2010 from a 3 for a buck bin.  1970 Topps is one of my least favorite of the vintage sets, but I would still got a $1 on any HoF even a lower tier one like Tony Perez. 

Phungo Tony Perez HoF Index
1984 Topps #385

Jamie Moyer v Tony Perez - 1986 08 22

On Wednesday night Jamie Moyer earned another win resetting his own record of holding the distinction of being the oldest player to win a Major League ballgame AND he set a record with his BAT by recording an RBI an RBI - which has never been done by anyone older. 

Today I want to take a look at an event on the other end of Jamie's career that involved a Future Hall of Famer who also recently reached an age plateau. 

1984 Topps #385 Tony Perez (image swiped from Baseball Card Database)

On Monday 5/14/2012 Tony Perez celebrated his 70th birthday.  Here comes your Phun Phact - Jamie Moyer once pitched to Tony Perez - recording 3 Outs vs the Future Hall of Famer while recording a 3-2 victory in August of 1986.

The Topps RC for Tony Perez is the #581 card in the 1965 set.  Hard to believe that there is an active pitcher that pitched to someone who played in 1964 and had a card issued in 1965.

Moyer has pitched to batters whose birth years have ranged from 1942 to 1990 (Starlin Castro). 

Card Show Report 2010 07 24 - Concorde Mall, Wilmington DE

The Concorde Mall has skylights throughout which I am sure are wonderful for letting in the tons o light most of the year. Unfortunately the AC in the mall cannot compete with the 100 degree heat and the sun just keeps baking down on you while your trying to sort through dime bins.

But that is my only complaint about the show - A couple of vendors I enjoy seeing were not there, and the $1 Vintage guy wasn't there so there were some disappointments. Still I manage to spend $53 mostly at dime boxes. Here are some examples of things that were selling.


There was a guy that had a bunch of the cards that were thrown out by someone, probably me - during my various moves during the crazy years during and surrounding college. He had plenty of 1976-79 Topps cards for a nickle a piece. I splurged for about 160 of these including the 76 Tony Perez above. I think I only found 3 HOFs including this Perez and his 1977 card (Expos) as well as a Goose Gossage card.

The other 3 cards came out of a dime bin. Congrats to Andre Dawson on his Hall of Fame induction. This card is a BBC magazine cutout. It actually looks really good. The Blanton card goes into the 2008 WSC Phils in other unis box. It is interesting that this is an early card of Blanton and he is in a position you frequently see him in for many cards and pictures. The Miguel Cabrera is the short printed no sig variation - nice find for a dime.


This is partially the Trade Deadline Group. Both the A&G cards were in dime boxes. The Oswalt card is a short print (#333). I would like to see the Phils land either pitcher, but if they don't start hitting, I am not sure either pitcher would make a difference. There were plenty fo the A&G This Day in History cards in the dime bin. At 1/pack this is no surprise. I picked up about a half dozen of the SPs which I was happy to find in the dime bin.

The Zorro/Zoilo Versalles card is a Rookie Card of an MVP player (1965) - nice find for .50 cents. I doubt that you will find an older rookie card of a future MVP any cheaper than that. Finally the Chrome Sandberg card. For most Hall of Famers if you find a Chrome Card from their playing days for a dime, there is no reason to not have the card in your personal collection.