1981 Fleer Baseball Complete 660 MLB Trading Card Set In Binder Fernando Reggie

Description: This 1981 Fleer Baseball Complete 660 MLB Trading Card Set In Binder is the exact item you will receive and has been certified Authentic by REM Fine Collectibles. The 1981 Fleer set consists of 660 Base Set cards, each one measuring 2-1/2” x 3-1/2”. Fleer’s 1981 baseball card set marked the company’s return to the trading card market – their first endeavor since 1963. Card fronts bear a vivid color likeness with a thick white frame extending to the edges. The image is trimmed in color with the player’s name and position identified near the bottom and the team noted in a baseball logo. The reverse includes his name, position, team, the card number, and statistics. This Fleer set is anchored by Nolan Ryan (#57), Ozzie Smith (#488), and Rickey Henderson (#574), and the rookie cards of Fernando Valenzuela (#149, Harold Baines (#346), Danny Ainge (#418). The first card in the set – Pete Rose (#1) – contains an error that misrepresents his hit total during the 1963 season, but does not significantly impact the card’s value. The same holds true for the Valenzuela rookie, which misspelled his first name. The 1981 Major League Baseball season culminated with the Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the New York Yankees in the World Series, capturing the franchise's fifth World Series title. The season had a players' strike, which lasted from June 12 to July 31, and split the season into two halves. Awards and HonorsBaseball Hall of FameRube FosterBob GibsonJohnny Mize Most Valuable PlayerRollie Fingers, Milwaukee Brewers, P (AL)Mike Schmidt, Philadelphia Phillies, 3B (NL) Cy Young AwardRollie Fingers, Milwaukee Brewers (AL)Fernando Valenzuela, Los Angeles Dodgers (NL) Rookie of the YearDave Righetti, New York Yankees, P (AL)Fernando Valenzuela, Los Angeles Dodgers, P (NL) Gold Glove AwardMike Squires (1B) (AL)Frank White (2B) (AL)Buddy Bell (3B) (AL)Alan Trammell (SS) (AL)Dwight Evans (OF) (AL)Rickey Henderson (OF) (AL)Dwayne Murphy (OF) (AL)Jim Sundberg (C) (AL)Mike Norris (P) (AL) MLB LeadersAVGCarney Lansford BOS.336Bill Madlock PIT.341HRTony Armas OAKDwight Evans BOSBobby Grich CALEddie Murray BAL22Mike Schmidt PHI31RBIEddie Murray BAL78Mike Schmidt PHI91WinsDennis Martínez BALSteve McCatty OAKJack Morris DETPete Vuckovich MIL14Tom Seaver CIN14ERASammy Stewart BAL2.32Nolan Ryan HOU1.69 April 9 – After pitcher Jerry Reuss pulls a muscle, rookie Fernando Valenzuela is given his first starting assignment. His first Major League start results in a five-hit shutout. It is the beginning of what will be called "Fernandomania" in Southern California.April 10 – Carlton Fisk debuts with the Chicago White Sox, coincidentally in Fenway Park against his former team, the Boston Red Sox. Fisk hits a three-run home run in the eighth to secure a 5–3 win for Chicago.April 11 - Don Sutton was back in Dodger Stadium, but for the first time in 15 years, he was not pitching for the Dodgers, instead he's pitching for the Houston Astros. The Dodgers welcomed their former ace back by lighting him up for 6 runs on 8 hits in 4 innings as the Dodgers beat the Astros, 7–4.April 14 – The Oakland Athletics sign Chris CodiroliApril 17 – The Texas Rangers sign Bobby Bonds.April 18 – Tom Seaver of the Cincinnati Reds records his 3000th career strikeout. Keith Hernandez is the victim.April 19 - in game one a twi-light doubleheader, the Oakland Athletics set a new Major League record by starting the season with 11–0 with a 6–1 win over the Seattle Mariners before 29,834 fanatics at the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum.April 27 – Just 18 days after his first start, Fernando Valenzuela has grabbed the attention of the baseball world. In just his fifth start, he pitches his fourth complete game shutout running his record to 5–0 with a microscopic 0.20 ERA. He is also batting over .400 to help his own cause.April 29 – Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies records his 3000th career strikeout. April 1981 is the only month in history to have two pitchers reach this milestone. He is the first left-handed pitcher in Major League history to reach that mark. May 3 – Fernandomania rolled on as Fernando Valenzuela won his 6th straight start this year as the Dodgers beat the Montreal Expos 6–1 in 10 innings.May 10 – In the second game of a doubleheader, Charlie Lea of the Montreal Expos no-hits the San Francisco Giants 4–0. The no-hitter is the first in the history of Olympic Stadium, which will witness only one other no-hitter, by Philadelphia's Tommy Greene in 1991.May 15 – Len Barker of the Cleveland Indians pitches a perfect game against the Toronto Blue Jays, 3–0, at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. He struck out 11, all swinging, after the third inning and never had a 3-ball count on any batter on a misty, rain-soaked night where only 7,290 fans took in the game. Current Indians broadcaster Rick Manning caught the 27th out of the night on a fly ball to center field. Barker's catcher, Ron Hassey will later catch Dennis Martínez's 1991 perfect game making him the first catcher in history to catch two perfect games.May 18 – The Philadelphia Phillies hand Fernando Valenzuela his first career loss in the major leagues, a 4–0 shutout.May 21 – Ron Darling of Yale University pitches a no-hitter through eleven innings against St. John's University. In the 12th inning, St. John's broke up the no-hitter and then scored on a double-steal to beat Yale 1–0. Darling's performance remains the longest no-hitter in NCAA history and the game is considered by some to be the best in college baseball history. Frank Viola was the opposing pitcher for St. John's.May 25 – Carl Yastrzemski plays in his 3,000th major league game, scoring the winning run in Boston's 8–7 triumph over Cleveland. Yaz joins Ty Cobb, Stan Musial and Hank Aaron as the fourth major leaguer to appear in 3,000 games.May 27 – While visiting the Seattle Kingdome, Kansas City Royals centerfielder Amos Otis hits a slow roller down the third base line in the sixth inning. Seattle Mariners third baseman Lenny Randle gets on his hands and knees and tries unsuccessfully to blow the ball foul.May 29 – The New York Mets trade pitcher Jeff Reardon and outfielder Dan Norman to the Montreal Expos for outfielder Ellis Valentine. June 5 – Nolan Ryan issues the 1,777th walk in his career, breaking the record previously held by Early Wynn.June 7 – The Houston Astros trade pitcher Joaquín Andújar to the St. Louis Cardinals for outfielder Tony Scott.June 8 – With their twelfth pick in the June amateur draft, the New York Mets select Roger Clemens. He declines to sign, deciding instead to attend the University of Texas at Austin. He is drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the first round (19th overall) of the 1983 Major League Baseball draft.The Chicago Cubs select outfielder Joe Carter with their first round selection.June 10 – Pete Rose hits a Nolan Ryan pitch in his first at-bat for the 3,630th safe hit of his career; tying Stan Musial's National League record for career hits. He would strike out in his next three at-bats in the game, however, in his bid to break the record.June 12 – After meeting with major league owners for most of the previous day, players' union chief Marvin Miller announces, "We have accomplished nothing. The strike is on", thus beginning the longest labor action to date in baseball history. By the time the season resumes on August 10, 706 games (38 percent of the season schedule) will have been canceled. Minor League Baseball games are not affected by the strike.June 16 – In the midst of the players' strike, William Wrigley III announces the sale of the Chicago Cubs to the Tribune Company for $20 million. This ends the decades-long association between the Wrigley family and the Cubs.June 20 – Bernie Carbo signs a minor league deal with the Detroit Tigers. He plays in just 19 games for their Triple-A team in Evansville.June 23 – The Pawtucket Red Sox beat the Rochester Red Wings, 3–2, in the 33rd inning of the longest game in professional baseball history. This game had started 67 days earlier was halted in the early morning of April 19, with the score tied 2–2 after 32 innings and more than eight hours of game time. The game ended 18 minutes after it resumed, with Dave Koza hitting an RBI-single that brought Marty Barrett with the winning run. Future Hall of Famers Wade Boggs and Cal Ripken Jr. participated for Pawtucket and Rochester, respectively.July 11 – The Pittsburgh Pirates sign undrafted amateur free agent Bobby Bonilla. August 6 – As a result of the nearly two-month interruption in play because of the strike, major league owners elect to split the 1981 season into two halves, with the first-place teams from each half in each division (or a wild card team if the same club wins both halves) meeting in a best-of-five divisional playoff series. The last time the major leagues played a split season was 1892. The Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers suddenly find themselves guaranteed playoff spots as first-half champions (a problem noted at this time is that those teams will not have much left to play for in the rest of that year's regular season).August 9 – At Cleveland Stadium, the National League wins its tenth consecutive All-Star Game over the American League, 5–4. Gary Carter hits two home runs and is selected the MVP. The 1981 Midsummer Classic becomes the second All-Star Game ever played during the month of August, the first having taken place on August 3, 1959.August 10:The MLB regular season resumes following the nearly two-month strike.Pete Rose singles in the 8th inning off Mark Littell of the St. Louis Cardinals to break Stan Musial's National League record for career hits.Cal Ripken Jr. makes his major league debut for the Baltimore Orioles as Baltimore beats the Kansas City Royals 3–2 in 12 innings in Kansas City.August 12 – Joe Rudi, a part time starter who entered the game hitting .147 rapped a pair of home runs to lead a six-homer barrage and rookie Bobby Ojeda pitched a complete game for a Red Sox win.August 24:Kent Hrbek debuts as a Minnesota Twin. His twelfth-inning home run beats the Yankees 3–2 in New York. Hrbek will go on to have a 14-year career with his hometown team.The Philadelphia Phillies release John Vukovich, ending his major league career. September 3 – The St. Louis Cardinals sell the contract of pitcher Donnie Moore to the Milwaukee Brewers.September 4 – In the conclusion of the longest game in Fenway Park history, the Seattle Mariners beat the Boston Red Sox 8–7 in 20 innings. The game began on September 3, but was suspended after 19 innings with the score tied 7–7.September 6 – Despite having won the first-half American League East title, New York Yankees manager Gene Michael is replaced by Bob Lemon, who managed the club in 1978–79. The Yankees are under .500 in the second half of the season.September 6 – The Los Angeles Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela beats the St. Louis Cardinals 5–0 to tie the National League record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher.September 19 - Pete Falcone became the first New York Mets pitcher to hurl a complete game since May 29, 1981, as the New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6–2.September 26 – Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros breaks the record of four no hitters by pitcher Sandy Koufax by pitching his fifth career no hitter in the Astrodome against, coincidentally, Koufax's former team, the Los Angeles Dodgers.September 30 – The Kansas City Royals defeat the Minnesota Twins, 5–2, in the last Major League game to be played at Metropolitan Stadium, as the Twins prepare to move into the new Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Clint Hurdle hits the last outdoor Major League home run in Minnesota until Target Field opens twenty-eight seasons later in 2010. October 3:Bob Horner hits two home runs and scores the winning run to give the Atlanta Braves a 4–3 win over the Cincinnati Reds, and give the Houston Astros the second-half title in the NL West division. Cincinnati, which lost the first-half title to the Dodgers by one-half game, will finish with the best overall record (66–42) in the major leagues, but will miss the playoffs due to not winning either half's division title.The Milwaukee Brewers (playing since 1970) and Montreal Expos (since 1969) clinch their first postseason appearances. Milwaukee beats Detroit 2–1 to wrap up the second-half title in the AL East division, while Montréal edges the Mets 5–4 to win the NL East division's second playoff spot. (St. Louis finishes with the best overall record in the NL East but misses the playoffs for the same reason as the Cincinnati Reds. St. Louis would make up for the heartbreak the following season).October 5:The Kansas City Royals shut out Cleveland 9–0 in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader to clinch the second-half title in the AL West division. The second game is canceled as irrelevant. This was a make-up game after the scheduled season ended the day before.Mark Fidrych is released by the Detroit Tigers. Fidrych had been an All-Star and rookie of the year a few seasons prior, and became a pop culture figure in baseball.October 19 – Rick Monday of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a ninth inning home run to break a 1–1 tie, and secure a Game five victory in the National League Championship Series. The losing Montréal Expos had been leading the series 2 games-to-one in what would be their only post season appearance.October 21 – The New York Yankees trade outfielder Willie McGee to the St. Louis Cardinals for pitcher Bob Sykes. The trade would go on to be lopsided as McGee would become an All-Star for the Cardinals, whereas Sykes would never pitcher a game on the major league level for the Yankees and would be out of organized baseball after the 1982 season.October 26 – The Pittsburgh Pirates released Kurt Bevacqua.October 28:Pedro Guerrero drives in five runs, and pitcher Burt Hooton and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees, 9–2, to win the 1981 World Series in six games. In a remarkable postseason, the Dodgers rallied from a 2–0 deficit against the Astros in the division series, they rallied from a 2 games to 1 deficit against the Expos in the National League Championship series, and they rallied from a 2–0 deficit against the Yankees in the World Series. Guerrero, Ron Cey and Steve Yeager are named co-MVPs

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