1964 Topps

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1964 Topps

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• Features the rookie cards of Baseball Hall of Famers Phil Niekro and Tony Larussa.
  
  Features a special "In Memoriam" card (#550) for Ken Hubbs, former Cubs player who tragically died in a plane crash in 1964.
  
  Features the first individual player cards for Pete Rose and Willie Stargell.
• Card backs contained a baseball quiz which required the rubbing of a white panel to reveal the answer.
• #7 1963 National League Batting Leaders (Tommy Davis / Bob Clemente / Dick Groat / Hank Aaron) - Roberto Clemente's name is listed as "Bob" on the card. According to the Baseball Hall of Fame, a number of writers and broadcasters insisted on calling Clemente "Bob" or "Bobby," instead of his given name of Roberto in an effort to Americanize him. This practice continued through the 1969 Topps set. Clemente did not like this practice and felt it was disrespectful to his heritage.
• #15 Zoilo Versalles - UER: Born December 18, 1940, should be December 18, 1939
• #45 Milt Pappas - UER: Answer to trivia question misspells Eddie Mathews
• #124 Orlando Pena - UER: Born November 17, 1935, should be November 17, 1933
• #161 Dave McNally - UER: First line of text, "righthander" should be "lefthander"
• #164 Bud Daley - UER: Born October 7, 1933, should be October 7, 1932
• #186 Roman Mejias - UER: Born August 9, 1932, should be August 9, 1925
• #306 Giant Gunners (Willie Mays / Orlando Cepeda) - UER: Last line of text, Giants did not win pennant and Cepeda finished 2nd in MVP
• #325 Hector Lopez - Born July 9, 1932, should be July 9, 1929
• #335 Don Mossi - UER: "Born January 11, 1930", should be "January 11, 1929"
• #355 Vic Power - UER: Born November 1, 1931, should be November 1, 1927
• #363 Dick McAuliffe - UER: 1963 Detroit hits 218, should be 149
• #389 Jim Umbricht - Jim Umbricht #389, the back of the card notes his death in April 1964.
• #440 Bob Clemente - UER: 1960 team misspelled "Pittsburfh"
• #440 Bob Clemente - Roberto Clemente's name is listed as "Bob" on the card. According to the Baseball Hall of Fame, a number of writers and broadcasters insisted on calling Clemente "Bob" or "Bobby," instead of his given name of Roberto in an effort to Americanize him. This practice continued through the 1969 Topps set. Clemente did not like this practice and felt it was disrespectful to his heritage.
• #442 Pumpsie Green - UER: Born October 27, 1934, should be October 27, 1933
• #457 Jesse Gonder - Jesse Gonder was named to the 1963 Topps All-Star Rookie Team but his #457 card is missing the trophy designation.
• #538 Minnie Minoso - UER: Born November 29, 1922, should be November 29, 1925
• #561 Phillies 1964 Rookie Stars (Dave Bennett / Rick Wise) - UER: 2nd line of text for Bennett has mismatched ages (He was 18 during the 1964 season)