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1961 Topps #20, Robin Roberts



 
 
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Old January 7th 05, 06:08 PM
John Wade
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Default 1961 Topps #20, Robin Roberts

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Robin Roberts' 1961 Topps #20 baseball card is shown
here, both front and back:

http://home.triad.rr.com/ovis/images/020_Roberts-1a.jpg

http://home.triad.rr.com/ovis/images/020_Roberts-1b.jpg

Here's a trivia question for you. What Hall Of Fame pitcher
won 1 game and lost 10 one year, with a 5.85 ERA??

If you don't know the answer, you obviously open articles
without looking at the subject line!!

Yes, it's true, and the year was 1961, the year of this card.

Of course, he was playing for a team who went 47-107
that year, and scored over 100 runs less than the next
lowest run producing club in the National League, but
even so, it's hard to win games when you are giving up
almost six runs a game. By '61 his arm just couldn't push
his fastball by hitters anymore. He would have to adjust,
and he did.

But like Robin, the Phillies weren't always that bad. The
Phillies signed Robin in 1948, and he became part of that
team's "Whiz Kids" who went from third from the bottom,
in '48, to third from the top in '49, to National League
champs in 1950.

Robin won 20 games in 1950, with a 3.02 ERA. His
20 wins was 2nd in the league, and his ERA was 4th
best. He earned his first All-Star selection this year,
starting a string of All-Star selections which would
stretch through 1957.

Unfortunately, Philadelphia would drop back to the
middle of the pack in 1951, and would not finish any
better than third in the league for the rest of the decade.

But that didn't stop Robin from putting up some great
numbers. In 1951 he won 21 games with a 3.03 ERA,
in 1952 he won 28 games, with a 2.75 ERA, starting a
string of four years of 23 wins or more, leading the
league in wins all four years.

Robin was a master of control. He had a career 1.73
walks per game, and led the league four times in that
stat.

After his terrible season in 1961, Philadelphia sold him
to the Yankees, who released him early in the '62
season without using him. He then signed with the
Orioles and played with them into the 1965 season,
and was released by them. He was signed by the
Astros, who released him in '66, and then the Cubs
who released him after the '66 season.

His lifetime ERA was 3.40, he won 286 games, and
his jersey number 36 was retired by the Phillies in
March, 1962.

Robin was elected to the Hall Of Fame in 1976.
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John Wade


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