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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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Wade |
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