Showing posts with label Chicago White Sox. Show all posts
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Friday, March 28, 2025

#326 Connie Johnson - Chicago White Sox


Clifford Johnson
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

Bats:  Right  Throws:  Right  Height:  6'4"  Weight:  200
Born:  December 27, 1922, Stone Mountain, GA
Acquired:  Purchased by the Chicago White Sox from the St. Hyacinthe Saints (Canadian Provincial League) for $6,500, August 31, 1951
Major League Teams:  Toledo/Indianapolis Crawfords 1940; Kansas City Monarchs 1941-42, 1946-48; Chicago White Sox 1953, 1955-56; Baltimore Orioles 1956-58
Died:  November 28, 2004, Kansas City, MO (age 81)

Connie Johnson spent 17 seasons pitching professionally throughout North America, with his career beginning as an impressive 17-year-old with the minor league Atlanta Black Crackers and the Toledo/Indianapolis Crawfords.  Johnson was named to the East-West All-Star Game as a member of the Crawfords in 1940, the youngest player to earn that distinction.  With Hall of Famers Satchel Paige and Hilton Smith, Johnson helped lead the Kansas City Monarchs to back-to-back pennants in 1941 and 1942, before missing three full seasons while in military service during World War II.  He'd return to baseball in 1946, pitching three more seasons with the Monarchs.  Johnson made his American League debut with the White Sox in 1953, and his best seasons in that league came in 1956 and 1957 with the White Sox and Orioles.

Johnson was a combined 9-11 with a 3.44 ERA in 31 games in 1956, throwing nine complete games and a pair of shutouts.  He was 14-11 in 1957 with the Orioles, with a 3.20 ERA and a career-high 177 strikeouts.  Johnson would spend parts of two seasons with the Orioles' top farm team in Vancouver and he'd finish his career after pitching three games with the Pericos de Puebla in the Mexican League in 1961.  During most of his offseasons, Johnson continued to pitch in the Panamanian and Cuban Leagues.  In the American League, Johnson was 60-50 in 176 games, including 127 starts.  He threw 51 complete games, nine shutouts and struck out 676 in 974 2/3 innings.

December 25, 2007
Building the Set
December 28, 2007 from Dad's eBay purchase - Card #340
I recently shared this full story with the Rocky Bridges (#324) post earlier this month, but I'll repeat myself, in an edited version, here.  The way my Dad and I finished the 1956 Topps set was somewhat anti-climatic but nevertheless a joyful memory.  Leading up to the Christmas of 2007, my Dad (with the help of my Mom) scoured eBay and other online baseball card stores for the remaining 29 cards we needed to complete the set.  Throughout the weeks and months leading up to the holidays, he knew we had completed the set but he kept it quiet, wanting to surprise me on Christmas morning.  I have no idea, and I'll never know, what the true last card was that he acquired to finish off the set.  And I have no record, nor was he able to tell me, how much they had paid for any of these final 29 cards.  

This Johnson card was one of the final 29.  It was one of the commons included in a memorable haul that included the cards of Pee Wee Reese (#260), Roberto Clemente (#33), Whitey Ford (#240) and a spotless checklist card for the 1st and 3rd Series.

The Card / White Sox Team Set
Despite having already pitched professionally for 15 years, this is Johnson's rookie card.  The cartoon panels on the back of the card highlight his promotion to the White Sox in 1955, his success in the Canadian Provincial League and his consistently low ERA.  This is the final White Sox card in the 1956 Topps set.

1956 Season
Johnson began the season with the White Sox, and control problems led to an early season slump.  In five games with the White Sox, including a pair of starts, he was 0-1 with a 3.65 ERA, six strikeouts and seven walks in 12 1/3 innings pitched.  On May 21st, he was dealt with Mike Fornieles, George Kell (#195) and Bob Neiman (#267) to the Orioles for Dave Philley (#222) and Jim Wilson (#171).  Johnson turned his season around in Baltimore, going 9-10 with a 3.43 ERA in 26 games, all but one of those games as a starting pitcher.  He regained his control, striking out 130 and walking 62 in 183 2/3 innings pitched.  He threw a six-hit, 11 strikeout shutout against the Nationals on August 14th. 

1957 Topps #43
1958 Topps #266
1959 Topps #21

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1956 Topps #326
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (4):  1956-59
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  1959 Topps #21

14 - Johnson non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 3/21/25.

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Friday, May 24, 2024

#292 Luis Aparicio - Chicago White Sox


Luis Ernesto Aparicio
Chicago White Sox
Shortstop


Bats:  Right  Throws:  Right  Height:  5'9"  Weight:  160
Born:  April 29, 1934, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Signed:  Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent before 1954 season
Major League Teams:  Chicago White Sox 1956-1962; Baltimore Orioles 1963-1967; Chicago White Sox 1968-1970; Boston Red Sox 1971-1973
Hall of Fame Induction:  1984

Known for his exceptional defense and base running skills, Luis Aparicio played for 18 seasons in the majors, primarily for the White Sox.  Ted Williams (#5) called him "the best shortstop he had ever seen."  Aparicio made his debut in 1956, winning the American League Rookie of the Year honors after batting .266 and leading the league with 21 stolen bases.  It was to be the first of nine straight years in which Aparicio led the league or tied for the league lead in stolen bases, and he eclipsed the 50 stolen base mark in four of those seasons.  Aparicio helped lead his "Go-Go" White Sox to the World Series in 1959, and he was American League MVP runner-up.  Dealt to the Orioles before the 1963 season, Aparicio's production declined slightly but his defensive skills didn't.  He reunited with the White Sox in 1968 and enjoyed a late career resurgence making three more All-Star teams in his late 30s with the White Sox and Red Sox.

Aparicio retired with 2,677 career hits, 506 stolen bases (currently 38th all-time) and a .262 lifetime average.  Upon his retirement, he was the all-time leader for hits, games played, assists and double plays by a shortstop, and his record nine Gold Gloves was matched by Omar Vizquel in 2001.  Derek Jeter broke his all-time hits record by a shortstop in 2009.  Aparicio was the first native Venezuelan inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984, and his #11 was retired by the White Sox that same year.

Some text for this post originally appeared on my 1965 Topps blog.

Building the Set
December 25, 2000 from San Diego, CA (Kit Young Cards) - Card #292
Continuing a decade-long tradition, this was the "big" card under the tree on Christmas morning from Santa Claus, via my Dad by way of Kit Young Cards.  The early 2000s were a strange time for me, and looking back on pictures from this era I don't really recognize myself.  It's as if a majority of what happened from the late 1990s to the early 2000s is something I vaguely remember from a story I had read, and not something I actually lived through.  I have a few blurry and rushed photos from Christmas morning 2000, but nothing worth sharing and nothing that jogged my memory of having opened a present from my parents to find this Aparicio card.

The Card / White Sox Team Set
Kudos to Topps for rushing a card for Aparicio into the set's fourth and final series.  He had made his major league debut on April 17, 1956 and Topps must have been determined to get a card of the American League's best new rookie in its set.  The jumping action photo was seemingly a favorite pose for Topps photographers back in the day, especially for infielders.  The cartoons on the back of the card highlight Aparaicio's quick ascent to the White Sox starting line-up due mainly to his stellar defense and his speed.

Given this is a rookie card for a Hall of Famer, it's no surprise Topps has reprinted the card numerous times.  By my unofficial tally, there are eight different reprints available, including three with on-card autographs.

1956 Season
On October 25, 1955, the White Sox traded Chico Carrasquel (#230), a four-time American League All-Star shortstop, with Jim Busby (#330) to the Indians for outfielder Larry Toby (#250).  The White Sox knew Aparicio was ready for the majors, and their confidence in him was so high they made the shocking move of dealing away Carrasquel.  Aparicio did not disappoint.  He started 151 of the White Sox 154 games at shortstop, leading the league in assists, putouts, double plays, but also errors.  Aparicio received 22 of 24 first place votes in the postseason Rookie of the Year voting, with Rocky Colavito and Tito Francona receiving the remaining two votes.

1959 Topps #310
1962 Topps #325
1965 Topps #410
1970 Topps #315
1974 Topps #61

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1956 Topps #292
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (19):  1956-1974
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  2023 Topps Allen & Ginter #345

1,036 - Aparicio non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 5/20/24.

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Friday, December 1, 2023

#267 Bob Nieman - Chicago White Sox


Robert Charles Nieman
Chicago White Sox
Outfield

Bats:  Right  Throws:  Right  Height:  5'11"  Weight:  195
Born:  January 26, 1927, Cincinnati, OH
Signed:  Signed by the Cincinnati Reds as an amateur free agent before 1948 season
Major League Teams:  St. Louis Browns 1951-1952; Detroit Tigers 1953-1954; Chicago White Sox 1955-1956; Baltimore Orioles 1956-1959; St. Louis Cardinals 1960-1961; Cleveland Indians 1961-1962; San Francisco Giants 1962
Died:  March 10, 1985, Corona, CA (age 58)

The first thing that struck me about Bob Nieman's major league career is that he didn't seem to stick around very long with any one team.  His longest stint without switching teams came in the late 1950s with the Orioles between mid-1956 and 1959.  Before that, he was a regular with the Browns, Tigers and White Sox and his big league debut with the Browns in 1951 was one for the record books.  On September 14, 1951 against the Red Sox in Fenway Park, Nieman homered in his first two at-bats against Mickey McDermott (#340).  He became the first player in Major League history with two home runs in his debut game, a feat since accomplished by four other players.

Nieman's best years came with the Orioles.  He batted .322 with 12 home runs and 64 RBIs following a trade to Baltimore in May 1956, and in 1959, he clubbed a career best 21 home runs.  He departed Baltimore following the 1959 season, bouncing around again from the Cardinals to the Indians and finally to the Giants.  Serving almost exclusively as a pinch-hitter in 1962 with San Francisco, Nieman batted .300 for the season and saw his only World Series action, walking in Game 4 as a pinch-hitter against the Yankees.  The Yankees would prevail over the Giants in seven games.  Nieman spent the 1963 season with the Chunichi Dragons in Japan before retiring.  Over 12 major league seasons, Nieman batted .295 with 125 home runs and 544 RBIs.  He'd later serve as a scout for the Indians, Dodgers, Athletics, White Sox and Yankees.

Building the Set
September 25, 2005 in Ft. Washington, PA - Card #268
This was a late edition to our set and one of 11 cards we purchased at the 92nd Philadelphia Sports Card Show held at the convention center in Ft. Washington.  My records show we paid $7 for this card. With the Ocean City baseball card shows long gone by now, our only options for local baseball card shows were the "Philly Shows" held in Ft. Washington at the time or the occasional mall baseball card show.

August 14, 2005 - Dad and me at Yankee Stadium
My Dad didn't like the drive to Ft. Washington, and this would have been one of only a few shows we attended together in this location.  Our next show together was a few months later in December, also in Ft. Washington.  Looking at my records of when and where we purchased our cards, a full year would go by before we'd add any more cards to the set after that December show.

The year-long hiatus in collecting the set came at a time my wife and I were expecting our first son and as we moved into our first real house, so we had a pretty good excuse not to be purchasing baseball cards at the time.

The Card / White Sox Team Set
Nieman's rookie card can be found in the 1955 Bowman set, and this is his first Topps card.  If the runner sliding into second base is in fact Nieman, the photo was taken while he was with the Tigers, wearing #5 in either 1953 or 1954.  With the White Sox, Nieman wore #18.  The back of the card rightfully highlights the two home runs he hit during his big league debut.  The final cartoon panel covers his fielding skills, and Nieman had five double plays as an outfielder in 1952, tying him with Mickey Mantle (#135) and Faye Throneberry.

1956 Season
Nieman began the season with the White Sox, appearing in 14 games and batting .300 (12 for 40), making 10 starts in right field.  On May 21st, Nieman, Mike Fornieles, Connie Johnson (#326) and George Kell (#195) were traded to the Orioles for Dave Philley (#222) and Jim Wilson (#171).  Nieman started off hot for the Orioles, batting .308 with five home runs and 30 RBIs in his first 37 games with the club, through the end of June.  He assumed the everyday left fielder's job and was arguably the team's MVP, leading the way with a 4.0 bWAR.  His .320 average was fifth best in the league and he finished seventh in the year's MVP voting.

1955 Bowman #145
1957 Topps #14
1959 Topps #375
1961 Topps #178
1962 Topps #182

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1955 Bowman #145
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (7):  1956-1962
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  1979 TCMA The 1950s #211

32 - Nieman non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 11/19/23.

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Friday, October 20, 2023

#265 Sandy Consuegra - Chicago White Sox


Sandalio Simeon Consuegra
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

Bats:  Right  Throws:  Right  Height:  5'11"  Weight:  165
Born:  September 3, 1920, Potrerillos, Cuba
Acquired:  Sent from Puebla (Mexican) to the Washington Nationals in an unknown transaction before 1949 season
Major League Teams:  Washington Senators 1950-1953; Chicago White Sox 1953-1956; Baltimore Orioles 1956-1957; New York Giants 1957
Died:  November 16, 2005, Miami, FL (age 85)

A star pitcher in the 1940s in the amateur baseball leagues of his native Cuba, Sandy Consuegra pitched in parts of eight seasons in the major leagues.  He made his debut with the Senators in 1950, and in five of his next six seasons he'd throw at least 124 innings as a valuable swingman, equally adept at starting or relieving.  He was 6-0 for the Senators in 1952 and in early May 1953 he was sold to the White Sox.  In Chicago, Consuegra had his best three-year span between 1953 and 1955.  He went to the All-Star Game in 1954 and was 16-3 for the season while finishing second in the league with a 2.69 ERA in 154 innings pitched.  He was just as effective in 1955, owing a 2.64 ERA in 44 appearances over 126 1/3 innings pitched.

Consuegra played briefly for the Orioles and Giants over his final two seasons in the majors before retiring and returning to Cuba.  He attempted a brief comeback in 1961 with his old Senators' organization, now re-located to Minnesota as the Twins, but after two minor league games he shut it down again.  In 248 games, Consuegra was 51-32 with a 3.37 ERA and 28 saves.

Building the Set
January 18, 2003 in Plymouth Meeting, PA - Card #240
In January 2003, I added seven cards to our set, purchased at a baseball card show held inside the Plymouth Meeting Mall.  I paid $45 for the seven cards, which included this pristine Consuegra card.  My Topps set building had stalled out somewhat in 2003 as I had switched over to become primarily a Phillies collector, and I was also spending my disposable income trying to put together the early Topps Heritage sets.  This was the first of only 18 cards we added to our set in 2003, but we did cross the threshold of needing less than 100 cards to complete the set late in the year.

The Card / White Sox Team Set
This is Consuegra's first and only Topps card, after having appeared in Bowman sets every year since 1951.  As far as I know, he's the only player to appear in at least five Bowman sets, but have only one Topps card.  The back of the card calls attention to his 1954 winning percentage and 1952 record of 6-0.  Consuegra always seemed to have a low ERA, but I was struck by the fact that for his career, he usually had more walks in a season than strikeouts.  Lifetime, he struck out 193 while walking 246.

1956 Season
Consuegra began the season with the White Sox, appearing in 28 games and struggling somewhat with a 5.17 ERA in 38 1/3 innings pitched.  On July 24th, he was sold to the Orioles, managed by his former White Sox manager, Paul Richards.  Not wanting to travel to Vancouver, the location of the Orioles' top farm team, Consuegra instead pitched with the Havana Sugar Kings, then the Reds' top farm team.  He was a September call-up by the Orioles, making it into four games.  Between the White Sox and Orioles, Consuegra was 2-3 with a 4.98 ERA in 32 games pitched, including a pair of starts.

1951 Bowman #96
1952 Topps #143
1953 Bowman Color #89
1954 Bowman #166
1955 Bowman #116

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1951 Bowman #96
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (1):  1956
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  1979 TCMA The 1950s #170

11 - Consuegra non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 10/7/23.

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Baseball Reference
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Friday, September 22, 2023

#262 Howie Pollet - Chicago White Sox


Howard Joseph Pollet
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

Bats:  Left  Throws:  Left  Height:  6'1"  Weight:  175
Born:  June 26, 1921, New Orleans, LA
Signed:  Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent before 1939 season
Major League Teams:  St. Louis Cardinals 1941-1943, 1946-1951; Pittsburgh Pirates 1951-1953; Chicago Cubs 1953-1955; Chicago White Sox 1956; Pittsburgh Pirates 1956
Died:  August 8, 1974, Houston, TX (age 53)

Southpaw Howie Pollet was a three-time All-Star with the Cardinals, and twice authored 20-win seasons.  Pollet joined the Cardinals' starting rotation in 1942, seeing his first World Series action and winning his first Championship as St. Louis defeated the Yankees in five games.  In 1943, he won his first of two ERA titles with a 1.75 mark in 118 1/3 innings pitched.  Pollet missed three full seasons while serving during World War II, but picked up where he left off in 1946, again winning the league's ERA title.  That was to be his career year, as Pollet went 21-10 with a 2.10 ERA and a league-high 266 innings pitched.  He'd help the Cardinals reach and win the World Series again, as his team defeated the Red Sox in seven games and The Sporting News named him the National League Pitcher of the Year.  Pollet would win 20 games in 1949, his third and final season as an All-Star.

Pollet was traded to the Pirates at the start of the 1951 season, and he'd spend the next six years bouncing around somewhat.  He'd last play in the majors during his second stint with the Pirates at the end of the 1956 season.  Pollet was 131-116 lifetime in 403 games, with a 3.51 ERA and 934 strikeouts over 2,107 1/3 innings pitched.  He'd win this third World Series ring with the Cardinals in 1964, this time as their pitching coach.  Pollet coached with the Cardinals between 1959 and 1964, and was the first pitching coach for the newly-named Houston Astros in 1965.

Building the Set
December 25, 1994 from San Diego, CA - Card #136
The Roy Campanella (#101) card was my "big" present from Santa for Christmas 1994.  With my Dad's help, Santa secured the Campanella card from Kit Young Cards in San Diego for what my notes say was $75.  That price seems steep, but there were six other cards from the 1956 Topps set under the Christmas tree that year from Kit Young Cards, including this Pollet card, with the other six cards costing a combined $20.  In December 1994, I would have been home from college for the winter break of my junior year.

This was the last Christmas my family and I spent in the house on 12th Street in my hometown where I grew up.  My parents were in the process of building a new house and we'd visit the construction site throughout that winter break.  I had a tough time leaving my childhood home behind and the 1994-1995 timeframe brought about quite a few major changes in my life.

The Card / White Sox Team Set
This was meant to be a Cubs card, but Topps pivoted and gave Pollet a SOX logo on his hat in both photos to reflect his latest team.  Pollet had spent the prior 2 1/2 seasons pitching for the Cubs.  The large photo is the exact same used by Topps on Pollet's 1954 and 1955 cards, just with the hat logo updated.  The back of the card mentions his veteran status, his prior success in 1943 and 1946, and his recent arrival to the White Sox.  This is his last Topps flagship card as an active player, and he'd later appear in the 1960 Topps set on a floating heads coach's card.

1956 Season
Pollet signed with the White Sox on April 16th, the day before the start of the season.  His former Cardinals teammate, Marty Marion, was managing the White Sox and Pollet successfully passed a late spring training tryout.  The White Sox changed their minds fairly quick though, as Pollet appeared in only 11 games before he was released on July 13th.  Two days later, the Pirates took a chance on the veteran pitcher, and Pollet made 19 relief appearances for Pittsburgh to close out his career.  In total, with the White Sox and Pirates, he was 3-5 with a 3.62 ERA in 30 appearances, pitching 49 2/3 innings.

1949 Bowman #95
1952 Topps #63
1953 Topps #83
1955 Topps #76
1960 Topps #468

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1949 Bowman #95
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (7):  1951-1956, 1960
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  1994 Topps Archives 1954 #89

42 - Pollet non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 9/10/23.

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Sunday, May 14, 2023

#250 Larry Doby - Chicago White Sox


Lawrence Eugene Doby
Chicago White Sox
Outfield


Bats:  Left  Throws:  Right  Height:  6'1"  Weight:  180
Born:  December 13, 1923, Camden, SC
Signed:  Signed as a free agent with the Cleveland Indians, July 2, 1947
Major League Teams:  Newark Eagles 1942-1944, 1946-1947; Cleveland Indians 1947-1955; Chicago White Sox 1956-1957; Cleveland Indians 1958; Detroit Tigers 1959; Chicago White Sox 1959
As a Manager:  Chicago White Sox 1978
Hall of Fame Induction:  1998
Died:  June 18, 2003, Montclair, NJ (age 79)

Larry Doby was the first African-American player in the American League and the first Black player to go directly from the Negro Leagues to the Major Leagues.  A star with the Newark Eagles, he and teammate Monte Irvin (#194) helped that club with the Negro League World Series in 1946.  Upon joining the Indians in 1947, Doby spent eight and half seasons as the team's everyday centerfielder, helping Cleveland reach and win the World Series in 1948.  He was named to seven straight All-Star teams between 1949 and 1955, leading the league in RBIs with 126 in 1954, and in home runs twice in 1952 and 1954.  He was the league's MVP runner-up in 1954 behind Yogi Berra (#110), as his Indians once again reached the World Series.  Doby would finish out his career with the White Sox, a return trip to the Indians and the Tigers, making a brief comeback in 1962 with the Chunichi Dragons in Japan.

He retired with a .283 average in 1,533 games played, with 1,515 hits, 253 home runs and 970 RBIs.  Doby served as a coach with the Expos (1971-1973, 1976), Indians (1974) and White Sox (1977-1978), briefly taking over as manager of the White Sox when Bob Lemon (#255) was fired in June 1978.  He'd later work in the front office of the NBA's New Jersey Nets.  Doby had his #14 retired by the Indians in 1994, and the Veteran's Committee voted him into the Hall of Fame in 1998.

Building the Set
Summer of 1983 or 1984 in Millville, NJ - Card #31
This was one of the Original 44, and I re-told the story of how my Dad and I started collecting this set with the Walt Dropo (#238) post, back in February.  Seven of the Original 44 came from series one, with 11 coming from series two, and this Doby card is the 13th of 16 from series three.  Doby is one of eight Hall of Famers (or future Hall of Famers) from that Original 44 haul, along with Ed Mathews (#107), Berra, Willie Mays (#130), Red Schoendienst (#165), Early Wynn (#187) and Lemon.

The Card / White Sox Team Set
I'm a little stunned to find out, after owning this card for close to 40 years, that it's not an Indians card but a White Sox card.  Topps apparently updated the action photo of Doby to show him in a White Sox uniform, but they didn't update his hat in the portrait, which is the same photo used for his 1954 Topps card.  I've looked at this card hundreds of times and never registered the Chicago White Sox team designation on the front.  Crazy.

The back of the card highlights his trade to Chicago, his big years with Cleveland in 1952 and 1954, and his hitting for the cycle on June 4, 1952 against the Red Sox.

1956 Season
On October 25, 1955, the Indians traded Doby to the White Sox for Jim Busby (#330) and Chico Carrasquel (#230).  (Topps was able to update the hats on the Busby and Carrasquel cards to feature the Indians logo.)  Chicago acquired Doby in the hope of adding a power bat to their line-up, and Doby would hit 24 home runs and drive in 102 runs for the year.  Despite the combined offense of Doby in center field and Minnie Minoso (#125) in left, the White Sox still finished in third place, 12 games behind the Yankees.

1949 Bowman #233
1952 Topps #243
1954 Topps #70
1959 Topps #455
1974 Topps #531

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1949 Bowman #233
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (8):  1952, 1954, 1956-1959, 1973-1974
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  2022 Topps Archives #276

371 - Doby non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 5/12/23.

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