1973 Topps #646 Brewers Field Leaders - Del Crandall / Harvey Kuenn / Joe Nossek / Bob Shaw / Jim Walton
On this card: Del Crandall, Harvey Kuenn, Joe Nossek, Bob Shaw, Jim Walton
About this card
Managers appear only on the 24 Field Leaders cards, one for each club: each pictures the manager with three or four of his coaches, and there is no solo manager card. Fifteen of the 24 come in two printings. Thirteen include a Hall of Famer, among them coaches Ernie Banks (#81 Cubs), Warren Spahn (#449 Indians) and Bill Mazeroski (#517 Pirates), and the Dodgers' Walt Alston and Tom Lasorda (#569).
About Brewers Field Leaders (Del Crandall / Harvey Kuenn / Joe Nossek / Bob Shaw / Jim Walton)
A 1970 Texas League championship with Albuquerque preceded Crandall's move to Milwaukee's Triple-A affiliate in Evansville in 1971 and the Brewers' managing job in 1972. His 1973 Topps #646 grouped him with coaches Harvey Kuenn, Joe Nossek, Bob Shaw and Jim Walton. The manager-and-coaches card was a high number from the fifth series. Del Crandall spent eight seasons as the Milwaukee Braves' regular catcher, an eight-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove winner whose arm and game-calling made him the National League's premier defensive backstop of the 1950s.
On September 17, 1971, Kuenn left Milwaukee to help coach the Brewers' Instructional League team in Arizona. He continued as the Brewers' batting coach in 1972. Topps included him on #646 in 1973's fifth series, a high number, with manager Del Crandall and coaches Joe Nossek, Bob Shaw and Jim Walton. Harvey Kuenn won the 1953 AL Rookie of the Year Award and the 1959 AL batting title as a Detroit Tigers infielder-outfielder, hit .303 over 15 seasons and later managed Milwaukee's 1982 pennant-winning Harvey's Wallbangers.
The Brewers bought Joe Nossek in February 1971, and he spent that season at Triple-A Evansville, batting .223 in 174 at-bats while helping manager Del Crandall. Crandall took over Milwaukee in 1973 and made Nossek his third-base coach. Topps ran the Brewers staff as #646, a fifth-series high number shared with Crandall, Harvey Kuenn, Bob Shaw and Jim Walton. A defense-first Twins and A's outfielder of the mid-1960s who started in center for most of Minnesota's 1965 World Series before a long career as a coach.
Card #646 is the Milwaukee Brewers managers-and-coaches card, a fifth-series high number shared by Del Crandall, Harvey Kuenn, Joe Nossek, Bob Shaw and Jim Walton. Shaw, who last pitched in the majors in 1967, was hired as Crandall's pitching coach on September 15, 1972. He resigned on July 15, 1973, after a dispute with general manager Jim Wilson. Bob Shaw was a right-hander who won 18 games and beat Sandy Koufax 1-0 in the 1959 World Series for the pennant-winning White Sox, later making the 1962 All-Star team with Milwaukee and setting the major-league record for balks in a game.
After serving as interim manager of Double-A San Antonio in 1972, Walton joined Del Crandall's Milwaukee staff as first-base coach for 1973. His fifth-series high-number card, Topps #646, paired him with Crandall and fellow Brewers coaches Harvey Kuenn, Joe Nossek and Bob Shaw. Jim Walton combined major league coaching with scouting and player instruction. In Shattuck, Oklahoma, he helped create an indoor practice facility, while his advance scouting examined opponents' tendencies and defensive alignments.
Sources: Wikipedia (Del Crandall) · Wikipedia (Harvey Kuenn) · Wikipedia (Joe Nossek) · Wikipedia (Bob Shaw) · Wikipedia (Jim Walton) · SABR BioProject (Del Crandall) · SABR BioProject (Harvey Kuenn) · SABR BioProject (Joe Nossek) · SABR BioProject (Bob Shaw) · Baseball Almanac (Harvey Kuenn) · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (Bob Shaw) · Baseball Almanac (2) · Baseball Almanac (3) · BaseballCardPedia
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 152 | 1 | 42 | 77 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-10-19. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1973 Topps #646 card?
It is card #646 of the 660-card 1973 Topps Baseball set, picturing Del Crandall, Harvey Kuenn, Joe Nossek, Bob Shaw and Jim Walton. Managers appear only on the 24 Field Leaders cards, one for each club: each pictures the manager with three or four of his coaches, and there is no solo manager card. Fifteen of the 24 come in two printings. Thirteen include a Hall of Famer, among them coaches Ernie Banks (#81 Cubs), Warren Spahn (#449 Indians) and Bill Mazeroski (#517 Pirates), and the Dodgers' Walt Alston and Tom Lasorda (#569).
Why is #646 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the fifth and last print series, #529-660 - the scarce end of the set.
How many cards are in the 1973 Topps Baseball set?
660 cards, tracked as 679 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 660 with none skipped, in five series of 132 - #1-132, #133-264, #265-396, #397-528 and the high numbers, #529-660, printed in lower quantities; 19 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately - fifteen Field Leaders cards, the #20 Stan Bahnsen, #31 Buddy Bell and #504 Earl Williams border-gap pairs and the two #280 Al Kaline printings.
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