Expert: Tony Hutchens - 1/6/2005

Question
dear tony, i have been a fan of the orioles for a long time. i have always had a facination about the year the orioles had 4 20 game winners. was a baseball card ever made featuring the 4 20 gamers?
please let me know by my email address.
  sincerely, geoff

p.s. this could be placed on the baltimore orioles message board if i could figure out how to engage it

Answer
Hi Geoff,

  Ah, the magical 1971 season in which Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar, and Pat Dobson each won 20 games. Who can ever forget that amazing season? I can't be 100% certain but I don't think there was ever a baseball card printed with those four players on it. Topps was basically the only company printing baseball cards at the time and I'm quite certain they never printed one. But with the dozens of companies that eventually got into the business, it's possible one of those took a trip down memory lane and printed one. But I can't find any evidence of it so I believe it has never happened.

                                         Tony