V94 The Many Rookie Cards of Lou Piniella & Bill Davis

hey everybody this is Peter beak uh most of you know that Lou Panella has many rookie cards and I'm going to show you all of them and tell you a little story about Lou he was actually signed in 1962 by the Cleveland Indians but later that year he was drafted by the Washington Senators from the Indians so this CH him in 1964 as a rookie star for those Senators shows him as an outfielder and he's sharing the card with Mike Brumley in August of 64 Pella was sent back back to the Baltimore Orioles uh for our trade and he actually played four games for them in 1964 he spent some years in the minor leagues but prior to the 1966 season he was traded from the Orioles back to the Indians and he got his second card in 1966 as an Indian once again he shares a rookie card this time with r Shin Blum see who R is Richie so he has a card in 1964 then there's a gap four-year Gap and he gets his second card in 1968 but once again he has to share it he did get into six games with those Indians in 1968 in 1969 because of expansion the Seattle Pilots picked them up and Lou got into his third card but once again he has to share it with Marv stal I don't know how to pronounce it so here he is his third Tops baseball card but he still doesn't have his own card he actually did not play any games for the pilots he was with them in spring training when this card was probably photographed and uh set up to be produced but right after spring training uh he was traded to the Kansas City Royals so the next year 1970 he finally gets his own card and he gets a nice rookie cup little trophy for all that waiting so there he is with the Royals L Panella Outfield rookie cup after three shared rookie cards the fourth one he finally gets his own now Lou had a good um career he played 135 games for the Royals he was traded to the Yankees in 1984 and he did very well there did very well in the World Series the Yankees went to total of 18 years in the baks so Lou had a solid career but then afterwards he became a manager he managed the Yankees the Reds the Mariners the Devil Rays and the Cubs for 23 years so on top of his 18 years playing um days and his 23 years of managerial Lou had a very successful career and I think is my opinion someday he probably will go into the Hall of Fame as a manager so Lou had to wait three well actually had to wait more than three years but he had to wait three top cards before he got his own and once again the uh 64 as a senator then didn't have cards for a few years and then the 68 as an Indian 69 as a pilot and then finally his own card and he had many cards after that I'm going to tell you about another story another player o sorry about that bill Davis in 1965 Bill Davis was with Cleveland and he actually played 10 games and he was on a tops card 1965 rookie Stars uh this year they happened to do uh four players on the rookie cards but there he is as first base for the the Cleveland Indians and he did get into 10 games so there's his first card so he gets his next card in 1966 which you would expect but once again he has to share it now he's the 1966 rookie star for Cleveland Bill Davis first base so two cards two shared cards and in 1966 he did get into 23 games with Cleveland he uh had injuries and he toiled in the minor leagues but he did manage to stay on baseball cards his property of Cleveland 1967 he get his third card once again he has to share it with Gus Gil this time in 1966 so right now he just tied L penella three cards they're all shared but he gets his fourth card in 1968 this time he has to share it with Jose Vidal four cards four times he has to share it in 19 69 the expansion draft and he gets selected also and he gets selected by the San Diego padr so Topps airbrushed out his Cleveland hat and put him on a 1969 rookie star for the San Diego Padres once again he doesn't get his own card but he has to share it with Clarence Gaston now Clarence Gaston is actually cedo Gaston and cedo didn't have a great year as a player but he did pretty good as a manager especially for the Toronto Blue Jays he brought them to a World Series but anyways five years in a row Bill Davis was on a Tops baseball card five years he had to share it he did play 31 games for San Diego and he was the starting first baseman in 1969 for the very first San Diego Padres baseball game but that was it he was done he ended up leaving baseball so he managed to get into five tops cards 1965 rookie Stars 1966 rookie Stars 1967 rookie Stars 1968 rookie stars and finally the fifth one 1969 rookie Stars five cards five times he had to share and that was it no more baseball cards so I don't know of any player that's come close most to that like I did like I showed you L Panella had three cards before his fourth card was a standalone but poor Bill Davis got five shared Cards Never to have a card of his own so thank you for listening to the story of the rookie cards of Lou penella and Bill Davis I hope you have a great day