1973 Topps #356 White Sox Field Leaders - Chuck Tanner / Joe Lonnett / Jim Mahoney / Alex Monchak / Johnny Sain
On this card: Chuck Tanner, Joe Lonnett, Jim Mahoney, Alex Monchak, Johnny Sain
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 White Sox Field Leaders (Chuck Tanner / Joe Lonnett / Jim Mahoney / Alex Monchak / Johnny Sain)
After the 1972 season, Topps grouped White Sox manager Chuck Tanner with Joe Lonnett, Jim Mahoney, Alex Monchak and Johnny Sain on third-series #356 in 1973. On May 28, 1973, Tanner used Wilbur Wood to finish a suspended game against Cleveland, then start the regularly scheduled game; Wood won both. Chuck Tanner homered on his first big-league pitch in 1955, hit .261 as an outfielder and pinch-hitter, then managed the White Sox, Athletics, Pirates and Braves, winning the 1979 World Series with Pittsburgh.
Lonnett coached third base and catchers for the 1972 White Sox under Chuck Tanner, a teammate on a 1957 Pennsylvania barnstorming team. On third-series 1973 Topps #356, he joined Tanner, Jim Mahoney, Alex Monchak and Johnny Sain on the manager-and-coaches card. Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania catcher who backed up Phillies starters from 1956 to 1959, then coached under Chuck Tanner from 1971 to 1984, including third base on the 1979 world champion Pirates.
Mahoney coached under manager Chuck Tanner on the 1973 Chicago White Sox staff. Topps put him on #356, the manager card for the club, where he shares the front with Tanner, Joe Lonnett, Alex Monchak and Johnny Sain, each printed with the White Sox. The card sits in the third series of the 1973 set. Shortstop Jim Mahoney played 120 games for the Red Sox, Senators, Indians and Astros between 1959 and 1965, hitting .229. He coached for the Chicago White Sox from 1972 to 1976 and managed minor league clubs for the Pirates, White Sox and Twins.
Monchak was a White Sox coach in 1973, having been named with Joe Lonnett to Chuck Tanner's staff on October 2, 1970. Card #356, from the third series, is the Chicago staff card, with Tanner, Lonnett, Jim Mahoney, Monchak and Johnny Sain all printed with the White Sox. Alex Monchak played 19 games for the 1940 Phillies, then managed in the minors and coached for Chuck Tanner with the White Sox, Athletics, Pirates and Braves, including the 1979 World Series champion Pirates.
During the 1971 season Sain went to White Sox manager Chuck Tanner with a plan to start Wilbur Wood regularly on short rest, and Tanner agreed. In 1972 Wood won 24 games, started 49 times and pitched 376 2/3 innings in a strike-shortened year, and Stan Bahnsen went 21-16. Sain is on #356, a third-series card of the manager and coaches, with Tanner, Joe Lonnett, Jim Mahoney and Alex Monchak. Right-hander who won 24 games and finished second to Stan Musial in the 1948 MVP vote for the Boston Braves, then became a pitching coach for the Yankees, Tigers, White Sox and others.
Sources: Wikipedia (Chuck Tanner) · Wikipedia (Joe Lonnett) · Wikipedia (Jim Mahoney) · Wikipedia (Johnny Sain) · SABR BioProject (Chuck Tanner) · SABR BioProject (Joe Lonnett) · SABR BioProject (Jim Mahoney) · SABR BioProject (Alex Monchak) · SABR BioProject (Wilbur Wood) · BaseballCardPedia
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 147 | 5 | 39 | 72 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| SGC | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 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 #356 card?
It is card #356 of the 660-card 1973 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Tanner, Joe Lonnett, Jim Mahoney, Alex Monchak and Johnny Sain. 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).
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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