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    FOLDER OLD VAULT

    01 Johnny Temple
    02 Mike Vail
    03 Dick Stuart
    04 Willie Stargell
    05 Frank Taveras
    06 Chuck Tanner
    07 Frank Sullivan
    08 Danny Tartabull
    09-10 Rick Wise
    11 Hawk Taylor
    12 Bill Tuttle
    13 Charlie Williams
    14 Dick Stuart
    15-16 Ed Vosberg
    17 Rick Wise
    18 Jimmy Wynn
    19 Billy Williams
    20 Jose Valdivielso
    21 Mookie Wilson
    22 Jose Valdivielso
    23 Terry Whitfield
    24 Ralph Terry
    25-26 Wilson Betemit
    27 Fernando Valenzuela
    28 Terry Whitfield
    29 Joel Youngblood
    30 Carl Yastrzemski
    31 Mario Soto
    32 Bob Watson
    33 Otto Velez
    34 Bill Virdon
    35-36 Jimmy Wynn
    37 Ellis Valentine
    38 Rio Ruiz
    39 George Stone
    40 Jaret Wright
    41 Rio Ruiz
    42 Luis Sojo
    43 Bill Sudakis
    50 Don Sutton
    51 Pete Rose
    52 Hunter Cervenka
    53 Danny Burwawa
    54 Andruw Jones
    55 Chase d'Araud
    56 Luis Tiant
    57 J.D. Drew
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    Quote Originally Posted by goldfly View Post
    honestly have no idea what this thread is about

    That makes 2 of us.

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    We played a part in the past year of creating a checklist of the images released by Topps for sale on eBay. They were posted, unnamed in a index site, but a number of research types like myself did some due diligence to put names of virtually all of the photos -- including many players who were never portrayed on a Topps cards. This is a by-product of my 1966 Braves archive elsewhere on this site. It is estimated that Topps has some tw million photos in its vaults and its releasing them -- in all sports -- a few dozen per week.



    Lke Howie Bedell (JB 680)!

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    I've been found out. :-)

    But my name's sake is actually this guy:


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    Rico you know you could have just done this in the moderator forum. lol
    Forever Fredi


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    Another checklist correction:

    EM 481-482 Mike Price, Dodgers career minor leaguer, were label as part of big Bob Priddy run

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    Checklist (first post) now include FM (only a few) and FP

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    FOLDER FK

    FOLDER FK

    003-004 George Brunet
    005 Ferguson Jenkins
    006 Ted Kluszewski
    007-009 Joe Charboneau
    010 Lee Maye
    011-012 Barry Bonds
    013 Billy Pierce
    014 Whitey Ford (1962 Topps #315, 4 images)
    015 Mike McCormick ('62 Topps #319, 3 images)
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    048 Tom Morgan
    049 Todd Worrell
    050 Mike Krsnich
    051 Jose Valdivielso
    052 Jerry Lumpe
    053 Tom Lasorda
    054 Rico Carty
    055 Charlie Neal
    056 Ron Santo
    057 Valmy Thomas
    058 Boog Powell
    059-067 Tug McGraw
    068 Odis McGowan
    069 Bill Henry
    070-071 Boog Powell
    072 Rick Miller
    073 Carlton Fisk
    074 Glenn Burke
    075 Ron Swoboda
    076 Dave Kingman
    077 Vada Pinson
    078 Frank Howard
    079 Rocky Colavito
    080 Donn Clendenon
    081 Bruce Dal Canton
    082 Gene Alley
    083 Rico Carty
    084 Frank Robinson
    085 Don Mincher
    086 Jim Piersall
    087-090 Albie Pearson
    091-095 Ed Roebuck
    096-097 Albie Pearson
    098 Jim Piersall
    099 Wes Stock
    100 Earl Wilson
    101 Birdie Tebbitts
    102 Herb Moford
    103 Curt Simmons
    104 Bob Hale
    105 Jackie Jensen
    106 Charley James
    107 Billy Klaus
    108-111 Ken Hamlin
    112 Tom Poholsky
    113 Jack Phillips
    114 Johnny Klippstein
    115 Hobie Landrith ('57 Topps, non-arbrushed)
    116 Billy Klaus
    117 Daryl Spencer
    118 Marty Kutyna
    119-121 Charley James

    B&W Images (many team issued)

    244 Chuck Schilling
    245 Gene Baker (colorized for '58 Topps)
    246 Joe Nuxhall
    247
    248 Vic Power
    249
    250 Billy Pierce (colorized '55 Bowman!)
    251 Dan Pfister
    252 Bob Allen (colorized for '61 Topps)
    253 Curt Roberts ('54 Topps)
    254 Joe Nuxhall
    255 Al Pilarcik (colorized for '58 Topps)
    256 Paul Foytack
    257 Willie Tasby
    258 Ted Bowfield, Bo Belinsky, Jack Spring
    259 Don Elston
    260 Wally Post
    261 Al Lary
    262 Jim Landis
    263 Jose Valdivielso ('60 Topps)
    264 Jim Pendleton ('54 Topps)
    265 Frank Barnes ('60 Topps, non-airbrushed)
    266 Jim Baxes
    267 Ty Cline (college photo)
    268 Jackie Jensen
    269
    270 Whammy Douglas
    271
    272 Bob Allison
    273 Norm Larker
    274 Bob Allen ('63 Topps)
    275 Dan Pfister
    276 Lee Thomas, George Thomas
    277-278 Norm Larker
    279 Joe Moeller
    280 Mike Fiore
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    460 Hideo Nomo
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    936a Dante Bichette
    937a Juan Gonzalez
    938a Derek Jeter
    941a Nomar Garciaparra
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    988 Chico Fernandez (B&W, '58 Topps colorized)
    989 Jim Sundberg
    990 Valmy Thomas
    991 Woodie Held
    992 Sherm Lollar
    994 Daryl Spencer
    995 Rico Carty (B&W)
    996 Will Clark
    997 Andre Dawson
    998 Billy Klaus (B&W, 2 images)
    999 Haywood Sullivan (B&W, '57 Topps colorized)
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    Folder FK now included in master checklist

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    Two images of Mike Hershberger in an Indians uniform incorrectly ID'd as Gomer Hodge have been corrected in Folder EK.

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    Three new folders are checklisted: FE, LE and NN.

    Dozens of corrections have been made from Folders AB through BC. More to come thanks to a man to signs on elsewhere as keonleafs. Much appreciated.

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    Correction in NN

    181-182 Larry Howard

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    Adding missing #in JF Folder

    JF 326 Sammy Sosa
    JF 835 Paul Molitor
    JF 855 Kirby Puckett

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    ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS

    GY859-860 John Burrows

    NN053 Jackie Moore

    NN185 Mike Shannon

    Folder GZ will be placed when it is complete

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    The first 380 images in Folder GZ have been checklisted and are now posted on this thread. More, many more, are expected for this folder.

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    Overcoming some deadhead moments: a few random Topps portrait images in Folder FR have been ID'd as John Olerud (598a) with no helmet! and Johan Santana (602-602a).

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    Contributed correction:

    GE 879-880 now correct as Dennis Hood

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    6th WORST DAY IN BRAVES HISTORY: WORST. DRAFT. EVER.



    6TH WORST DAY IN BRAVES HISTORY: JUNE 7TH, 1981
    WORST. DRAFT. EVER.

    (Note: much of this was written by Grant Bisbee for SB Nation)

    The draft the Atlanta Braves had in 1981 was like a pitcher going 0-for-50 for a season. Think about all of the awful-hitting pitchers you’ve watched.Randy Johnson, for instance. Even he could squeak out a few hits each season. The Braves couldn’t even draft a player that was the equivalent of a slow dribbler down the line that wouldn’t go foul.
    The Braves selected 48 players that year, and not a single one played a day in the big leagues—the only time in draft history that a team has whiffed on all its picks. Among 34 players taken in the June, regular phase, only one advanced even as high as Triple-A. It didn’t help the Braves cause that they didn’t have second- or third-round picks that year, but they rolled the dice on their top pick, Washington high-school outfielder Jay Roberts, a University of Washington football recruit who didn’t even play baseball his senior year -- partaking instead in track and field. Not surprisingly, Roberts hit just .187 with nine home runs in four minor-league seasons, none above Class A.
    Fifty-one picks between the three phases of the draft. Zero major leaguers. How does this happen? Well, there are different ways to run a draft. Some are more successful than others. Using your first pick, the 12th-overall pick in the draft, on a player who doesn’t play baseball might be an iffy strategy:
    "Everyone thought the Braves were crazy," said Sam Bakotich, the sports editor of The Chronicle in Centralia and who covered (Jay) Roberts’ career. "But they drafted what they thought was the best athlete available. They thought they could teach him how to hit a curveball. He could beat the hell out of a fastball, but he didn’t have much luck with a curveball."
    Everyone was right. To be fair to the Braves, there weren’t a lot of successful picks right after Roberts. Still, they defied the odds by not getting anyone at all who played in the majors, even for just a Moonlight Graham cameo.
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    The Braves' 2nd went round pick went to the Mets for Claudell Washington; their 3rd round pick went to the Yankees for signing Gaylord Perry.
    So, who were the individuals responsible for the disaster of the 1981 draft?
    The Director of Scouting was the legendary Paul Snyder. Roberts was “scouted” by the veteran former Yankees catcher Charlie Silvera and crosschecked by Bob Wadsworth (Braves Scout 1981-84).
    How the hell did it happen?
    Jay Roberts, called a "man among boys" as a prep athlete, leading the state in rushing for a state championship team in Centralia, Wash. Helping the baseball team out, this outfielder played just one baseball game his senior year. A Braves' scout (Silvera?) was at that game, in which he hit a home run, walked twice and stole three bases – and Atlanta made him the 11th draftee overall in 1981, and he accepted a $65,000 signing bonus.
    He hit .187 in four minor-league seasons before giving up and going back to football. He was a linebacker for the Huskies, lettering three seasons (1984, '86, '87). He would run afoul of the law more than once and was ostracized by his alma mater. Then in 1998, at the age of 35, he rolled his car on Interstate 90 and was killed on Sept. 26. The accident received little mention in the Seattle media, and Baseball Reference still thinks he is alive.
    More futility followed Roberts' pick.
    Henry Aaron may be the greatest player in the history of the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, but his son Lary was part of one of the most infamous moments in franchise history. A 32nd-round pick of the Braves in 1981, the younger Aaron was a fringe element in the most-futile draft in baseball history. His Florida A&M teammate, the son of late Braves g.m. Bill Lucas, was also drafted.
    One they did not sign was 13th round selection Kevin Towers. A juco pitcher, he instead went to BYU and was drafted and signed by the Padres the following season. He would work his way through the ranks and eventually became the club’s General Manager from 1995-2009.
    In that role, he was most famous (infamous) in Atlanta for stonewalling the Braves in what seemed like a season-long quest to acquire Jake Peavy .
    The Braves failed to sign the 10th, 12th-16th, 18th, 23rd, 26th-28th round picks.
    Worst. Draft. Ever.

    LINK TO ENTIRE 1981 DRAFT
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    Correcting a few things thanks to Cusick from OOTP

    GT742-743 is Jerry Spencer, not Gary Spencer
    HK570 Dan Coombs not Dan Combs
    HK949-950 Bob Stickels not Stickles
    HK977-978 Rick Steirer not Mike Steirer
    HN 360-361 Rick O'Keeffe not O'Keefe
    HP 078 Sam Parrilla not Parilla
    HU 693-694 Howie Goss not Gross
    HV 184-185 Vern Handrahan not Handrahand
    HX Gus Mauch not Gis
    HX 929-930 Arturo DeFreitas not DeFreites
    HX 931-932 Art DeFilippis not DeFilippas
    JB 255 Dalton Jones not Tom Jones
    JB645-646 Mike Baxes not Max
    GE879-800 Dennis Hood, not Ken Hood

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    Folder GZ, all 965 or so images included, have been archived and checklisted

    Folder KA has begun and is also checklisted

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