"Roberto Clemente" versions of "Bob Clemente" cards

Moose1913

Has it ever bothered anyone else that only 6 of Roberto Clemente's 19 regular issue Topps cards use the name Roberto?

It'd be nice to see Topps include "Roberto Clemente" versions of the "Bob Clemente" cards in a cards that never were set.

CocoaBeachDodgers

You're right, nobody ever called him Bob or Rob that I can remember.

But you know what bothers me more, those "cards that never were" sets.
Personally, I've always hated those & I also hate new cards that look like vintage cards also.
Maybe the first ones were OK, or unique, but they just kept making them over and over. A&G's, T206, almost every Topps cards of the 50' & 60"s etc....

itzagoner

an excerpt from one of those internet bio sites had this: During the mid to late 1960s, Pittsburgh sports writers started calling him "Bob" or "Bobby". He hated the change and insisted on being called "Roberto".

but we know that Topps was calling him Bob as of 1957, quite likely as a matter of convenience to more easily fit his name on the card.

ShootyBabitt

<< <i>quite likely as a matter of convenience to more easily fit his name on the card. >>



Or to make him sound more 'merican.

Tabe

<< <i>an excerpt from one of those internet bio sites had this: During the mid to late 1960s, Pittsburgh sports writers started calling him "Bob" or "Bobby". He hated the change and insisted on being called "Roberto".

but we know that Topps was calling him Bob as of 1957, quite likely as a matter of convenience to more easily fit his name on the card. >>


Nah, it was just straight-up racism. There was plenty of room on the cards for his full name - they just wanted him to have an American name.

Tabe