Saturday, June 22, 2024

Oldest living players from 1966-70 (redux)


With the recent passing of Willie Mays, I remembered a post I made almost 6 years ago today:  
 
“Who are the oldest living players with baseball cards in the Topps sets that I am following?”


Pirates’ reliever Elroy Face is still at the top of the list for the 1966-69 sets, at age 96. Here are the 5 oldest living players per set that I follow:

1966 
Elroy Face
Al Worthington
Vern Law
Bob Skinner
George Altman

1967 
Elroy Face
Al Worthington
Vern Law
Ozzie Virgil
George Altman

1968 
Elroy Face
Al Worthington
Al Spangler (6th in 1966 set)
Rocky Colavito (6th in 1967 set)
Orlando Pena (7th in 1967 set)

1969
Elroy Face
Al Spangler
Camilo Pascual (6th in 1968 set)
Bill White (7th in 1968 set)
Luis Aparicio (8th in 1968 set)

1970
Al Spangler
Camilo Pascual
Luis Aparicio
Felipe Alou (8th in 1969 set)
Bob Humphreys (9th in 1969 set)

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