George Toporcer St Louis Cardinals Baseball Autographed Postcard Photo PSA COA For Sale

You are offerdingonan autographed Postcard Photo signed by baseball great George Specs Toporcer ....includes PSA COA.

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Born and reared in theYorkvillesection ofManhattan, Toporcer never playedhigh school,collegeorminor leagueball. He went directly fromsandlot baseballto major league competition.[4][unreliable source?]He split his first professional season between the Cardinals and the minor leagueSyracuse Stars. As he grew older, George Toporczer decided that he wanted to become the best baseball player that he could become. He practiced daily for hours, learning all aspects of baseball and even teaching himself to bat lefty even though he was a natural right-hander. All of the practice he had done had earned him a spot on one of the area’s best semipro teams in 1920. The manager of his semipro team wasBilly Swanson, a former second baseman for the Boston Red Sox. Swanson helped George Toporczer hone his skills; prior to this George had been almost entirely self-taught. After one year on that semipro team, George Toporczer signed for theSyracuse Starsjust months before it became a farm team for the St. Louis Cardinals. Branch Rickey, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, transferred George’s contract from the Stars to the Cardinals. George Toporczer was to play for the Cardinals as the second baseman, bumping the former second baseman,Roger Hornsby, who had led the league in hitting that year, to left field. Later, because Hornsby was the leading hitter for the entire league, George Toporczer was moved from second base, so that Hornsby could once again be the second baseman, to become the utility infielder, a position that did not suit him as well as second base. Competing with Hornsby was difficult until Hornsby was traded for another second baseman,Frankie Frisch. Because he was not able to play his favored position, George Toporczer was moved from the Cardinals to Rochester, the Cardinals top farm team.[3]

In an eight-season career, Toporcer was a .279hitterwith ninehome runsand 151RBIin 546games. As a fielder, he appeared in 453 games atshortstop(249),second base(105),third base(95),first base(3) andright style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">

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