1976 Topps Card of the Year (round 1, group 3)

• The winners of round 1 group 2 were Dave Concepcion, Dave Lopes Record Breaker, Dave Parker, and Fred Lynn.
• Here are the cards in group 3. Please vote for your four favorites. The top four from this group will advance to round 2.

Fritz Peterson #255

Gene Tenace #165

George Brett #19

George Hendrick #570

Greg Gross #171

Greg Luzinski #610

Gus / Buddy Bell Father and Son #66

Hank Aaron #500

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1976 Topps #19 - George Brett

George Brett had a great season in 1976. He won the AL batting title with a .333 average and appeared in the first of his 13 straight All-Star games. He was second in MVP voting. He played a big part in the Royals' first division title.

I noticed that although he finished his career with 3154 hits, he had over 200 hits in a season only twice (215 in 1976 and 212 in 1979). I thought that was a little strange, so I checked all of the 3000-hit men to see how many 200-hit seasons they had.

Out of the 27 players who had 3000 or more hits, 14 of them had two or fewer seasons of 200+ hits. I guess it isn't as strange as I thought. (I made a nice table with the player, # of hits, and # of 200-hit seasons, but I couldn't get it to format properly in here) :(