1951 Robin Roberts Philadelphia Phillies Bowman Card #3 MLB

Description: This 1951 Robin Roberts Philadelphia Phillies Bowman Card #3 MLB is the exact item you will receive and has been certified Authentic by REM Fine Collectibles. Robin Evan Roberts (September 30, 1926 – May 6, 2010) was a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who pitched primarily for the Philadelphia Phillies (1948–1961). He spent the latter part of his career with the Baltimore Orioles (1962–1965), Houston Astros (1965–66), and Chicago Cubs (1966). Roberts was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. Roberts made his Major League Baseball debut with the Philadelphia Phillies on June 18, 1948. In 1950, he led his Phillies, whose overall youth earned them the nickname the Whiz Kids, to their first National League pennant in 35 years. Roberts started three games in the last five days of the season, defeating the heavily favored Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in a pennant-deciding, season-ending, 10-inning game. This marked his 20th victory of the season, and Roberts became the Phillies' first 20-game winner since Grover Cleveland Alexander in 1917. Roberts also started Game 2 in the 1950 World Series against Allie Reynolds. He allowed two runs and ten hits in ten innings as the Phillies lost 2-1. From 1950 to 1955, Roberts won at least 20 games each season, leading the National League in victories from 1952 to 1955. He led the National League in games started six times, in complete games and innings pitched five times, and he once pitched 28 complete games in a row, with one of those games lasting 17 innings. During his career, Roberts never walked more than 77 batters in any regular season. He helped himself with his bat, hitting 55 doubles, 10 triples, and five home runs with 103 RBIs. Roberts' 28 wins in 1952, the year he was named the Sporting News MLB Player of the Year award, were the most in the National League since 1935, the year when Dizzy Dean won 28 games. Although he had 28 wins in 1952, Roberts had his best season, based on a career high wins above replacement (WAR)[citation needed] in 1953, posting a 23–16 record and leading National League pitchers in strikeouts with 198.[5] In a career-high 346+2⁄3 innings pitched, he walked just 66 batters, and his 2.75 ERA was second in the league behind Warren Spahn's 2.10. One of the most memorable highlights of his career occurred on May 13, 1954, when Roberts gave up a lead-off home run to Bobby Adams of the Cincinnati Reds, then known as the Cincinnati Redlegs, but then went on to retire 27 consecutive batters to win 8–1, on a one-hit game. Roberts consistently (11 out of 14 years) had a better winning percentage than did the Phillies in games in which he had no decision. Overall, the Phillies were 1,020–1,136 from 1948 to 1961, a winning percentage of .4731. Roberts was 234–199 in that span, for a winning percentage of .5404 The 1951 Bowman Baseball set consists of 324 cards measuring 2-1/16" by 3-1/8". (The initial run totaled 252 cards but late in the issue’s production run was expanded by 72 pieces.) Each simple cardfront displayed a player’s likeness, most of which were recognizable press photographs enhanced by painted color and embellished by the player’s name caption. The gallery includes future Cooperstown enshrinees Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Warren Spahn and Ted Williams, along with rookies Whitey Ford and Nellie Fox, and numerous other stars and popular players. It is the final 72 cards, the “High Numbers,” that took the set to the proverbial “next level” thanks to the iconic rookie cards of young New York stars Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays. Mantle's horizontal, over-the-shoulder batting pose became an immediate sensation among collectors, and Mays followed close behind. That duo, the undisputed “keys” to the 1951 Bowman, along with all of the high-number series (#s 253-324) remain scarce.

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