By Brian Joura
1967 TOPPS GREG GOOSSEN
Back in the 1970s, when I collected cards with my brother Gary and things weren’t as immediately available as they are now, we were looking for a Tom Seaver rookie card. The checklists of the day wouldn’t list who was on the card; it would just say Mets Rookies. We found the listing for the 1967 Mets Rookies and ordered card #287. When it was delivered, it didn’t have Seaver. Instead, it was this Greg Goossen–Bart Shirley card. At the time we thought that Topps just didn’t print a Seaver rookie card, which wasn’t an unreasonable assumption on our part. Somehow, we both missed card #581. It was an expensive mistake to rectify later.
Goossen was a funny name, so it wasn’t a complete loss. And, if memory serves, in The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book – whoever has my copy please return it! – there was an entry that said Casey Stengel was talking about two young Mets prospects and that in 10 years, he thought Ed Kranepool had a chance to be a star and in 10 years Goossen had a chance to be 30.
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