- Leading the league in anything for seven straight years is quite an accomplishment.
- The closest streaks I could find were:
- Walter Johnson - AL strikeout leader for 8 straight years (1912-1919)
- Dazzy Vance - NL strikeout leader for 7 straight seasons (1922-1928)
- Lefty Grove - AL strikeout leader for 7 straight years (1925-1931)
- Rogers Hornsby - NL Batting Average leader for 6 years in a row (1920-1925)
- Ty Cobb led the AL in batting average every year from 1907-1919 except for 1910 (Nap Lajoie led) and 1916 (Tris Speaker was the BA champion).
- Sandy Koufax - NL ERA leader for 5 straight years (1962-1966)
- I had no idea who Bob Keegan was when this card came out. I still didn't know much about him before making this entry
- Keegan spent six seasons (1953-1958) pitching for the Chicago White Sox. Bob didn't make it to the majors until he was 33 years old. Keegan was stuck in the New York Yankees organization from 1945-1952. The Chicago White Sox purchased him from AAA Syracuse after the 1952 season.
- Bob's best season was in 1954 when he was 16-9 with a 3.09 ERA in 27 starts
- Bob pitched in his last major league game on July 24, 1958. He pitched in the minors through the 1960 season.
- Here is the boxscore of the no-hitter.
- Stealing 104 bases in a season, especially in that era, was a great accomplishment. The running game had been virtually nonexistent for over 40 years when this mark was set.
- I'm pretty sure this picture is from the October 3 game against the San Francisco Giants. In the bottom of the 7th inning Wills singled, stole second, and then stole third base. That's Jim Davenport at third base catching the throw.
- At the time, Carl Yastrzemski's Triple Crown wasn't as big of a deal. Frank Robinson had accomplished the feat the previous year. But it took 45 years for another player (Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers) to win another Triple Crown.
- Yaz deserved his unanimous selection as the 1967 AL MVP. I can't imagine the Red Sox finishing in the first division without him.
- These historical types of cards were great. Topps was really good about doing these subsets for a while.
- 1973 - All Time Leaders
- 1974 - Hank Aaron Specials
- 1975 - 25 Years of Topps MVPs
- 1976 - Sporting News All Time All Stars
- 1977 - Turn Back The Clock
- Five home runs and 13 RBI would have been a good month for a lot of players in 1972.
