today is davey lopes' 80th birthday. he is the oldest of the infield foursome that featured steve garvey, ron cey, and bill russell alongside lopes himself. the three other guys were all born in 1948, by the way. it's a big number for lopes, and reminds me that time waits for no man. here's my newest davey lopes card - his 2004 topps all-time fan favorites autograph
i am reminded that i missed another 80th birthday about a month ago. that would be lopes' teammates reggie smith and (the late) don sutton. they were both born on april 2, 1945 and so a belated happy birthday to "my" reggie.
i added a couple of items for those birthday buddies in a recent comc order:
those are their 1982 fleer stamps, and they are decent additions to my post-dodger collections of the two former dodger all-stars.
i think the oldest member of the 1978 topps dodgers is manny mota, who turned 87 in february, and i believe that rick monday will be the next to hit 80 - in november. today, however, belongs to lopes, and so happy birthday to the second baseman of the team of my youth!
He is 77
ReplyDeleteHe has some cards that say he was born in 1946 on the back but the current references I use, such as baseball reference, say it was 1945. I’ve never seen a reference that has him born in 1948. Please point me in that direction if you’ve found one.
ReplyDeleteNice autograph. I'm a big fan of Topps and their fan favorites autographs. It's interesting that they chose to use the same cartoon as his 77T card... but decided to use a different photo on the front.
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