- When I started doing this blog I thought I had the complete set. I started scanning the cards and saw that I was wrong. My set was short 16 cards. I ordered the missing cards on sportlots.com and now the set is complete.
- That was one heck of a game 6 for Reggie Jackson. For me that World Series was a choice between "eeeew" and "yuck." By the time Jackson came up for his third at bat I was pulling for him to hit that third home run.
- This is a nice action shot of Mr. Jackson.
- Nolan Ryan just doesn't look right with the "70s hair" look.
- Ryan finished his career with 215 games of 10 or more strikeouts. He had 148 in the American League and 67 in the National League.
- Randy Johnson has come the closest to breaking this record. Johnson had 114 10-strikeout games in the National League and 94 10-strikeout games in the American League (a total of 208).
- Johnson struck out 10 or more in a game 23 times in 1999, 2000, and 2001. Ryan struck out 10 or more 23 times in 1973.
- Here is one record that will be tough to break. Carl Yastrzemski tied the record in 1983, but he hung up his spikes and didn't break it. Derek Jeter is the active leader with 19 years with the New York Yankees (1995-2013).
- It's a nice touch for Topps to do a "goodbye card" for Brooks in 1978. A similar thing was done for Al Kaline in 1975.
- At this point in his career Pete was featured on record breaker cards often. My quick perusal of the cards shows Rose on record breaker cards in 1979, 1981, 1985, and 1986.
- Since Rose is the all-time hit leader, he is also the all-time hit leader for switch hitters. The likelihood of anyone breaking this record is very minuscule. Here is a Sporcle game in which the player tries to guess the top ten all-time hit leaders for switch hitters. I didn't do very well.
- Here's an obscure record. It's pretty cool that Mr. McCovey was able to do this, but I think Topps was stretching things a bit for this card.
- Jeff King of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit two home runs in one inning in 1995 and 1996. To the best of my knowledge he was the only other player to accomplish this feat.
- This is a pretty rough looking card. This was the last year that I collected cards and didn't really care about the condition. I've managed to upgrade my 1974, 1976, and 1977 cards, but my 1975 and 1978 sets can really use some work.
- Lyle ended up making 899 appearances in his career (1967-1982) and never had a start.
- John Franco now holds this record. He appeared in 1,119 games from 1984-2005 without starting a single game.
- When this card came out I thought this would be one of those records that never would be broken. It took almost 50 years for someone to break Ty Cobb's record. Rickey Henderson came along and took care of that. Now Rickey's record is "a record that never will be broken."
- Baseball undergoes evolution and records that looked unreachable years ago may be reachable in the future. What do you think is the record that is least likely to be broken? Please vote in the poll on the right.
