Cardboard cousins: SSPC Baseball Immortals/'75 Topps

 A 1980's SSPC set called "Baseball Immortals" uses a lot of elements of the '75 Topps design. I have a few cards from this set. #57 Charley Gehringer matched up here with '75 Topps #57 Davey Johnson. Gehringer was a Hall-of-Famer and one of the best-hitting second baseman of all time. But his career-high of 20 home runs in a season pales in comparison to Johnson's 43 (42 as a 2B in 1973). Johnson's next-highest home run total was 18, a number Gehringer topped three times, and he topped Johnson in every other offensive category as well.