1974 Topps #99 Brewers Field Leaders - Del Crandall / Al Widmar / Joe Nossek / Jim Walton / Harvey Kuenn
On this card: Del Crandall, Al Widmar, Joe Nossek, Jim Walton, Harvey Kuenn
About this card
Managers have their own cards this year, separate from the 24 team cards: twenty Field Leaders cards picture a manager with two to four of his coaches, and #578 Ralph Houk of the Tigers is the one solo manager card. The Athletics, Yankees and Padres have a team card but no manager card. Eight Field Leaders cards include a Hall of Famer, among them the Dodgers' Walter Alston and Tom Lasorda (#144) and coaches Bill Mazeroski (#489) and Larry Doby (#531).
About Brewers Field Leaders (Del Crandall / Al Widmar / Joe Nossek / Jim Walton / Harvey Kuenn)
Crandall took over a losing Milwaukee Brewers club during the 1972 season, and the team went 54-70 under him that year. The 1973 Brewers went 74-88 for fifth place, and the 1974 club went 76-86 and again finished fifth. He stayed on as manager through 1975, when Milwaukee went 67-94 under him. In the 1974 Topps set he shares #99, the Brewers manager and coaches card, with Al Widmar, Joe Nossek, Jim Walton and Harvey Kuenn. 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.
Widmar came down from the Brewers' front office in July 1973 to replace Bob Shaw as major-league pitching coach on Del Crandall's staff. He kept the job for a season and a half before going back to the farm system as director of player development. His 1974 Topps card, #99, is the Milwaukee manager-and-coaches card, shared with Crandall, Joe Nossek, Jim Walton and Harvey Kuenn, each printed with the Brewers. Al Widmar was a right-hander who went 13-30 in the majors, threatened to sue baseball over the reserve clause and testified at the congressional hearings on its antitrust exemption. He later coached pitchers for the Phillies, Brewers and Blue Jays.
Joe Nossek steered the Danville Warriors, a Brewers Class A club, to the 1972 Midwest League title before joining manager Del Crandall's Milwaukee staff. He appears on 1974 Topps #99, the Brewers manager and coaches card shared with Crandall, Al Widmar, Jim Walton and Harvey Kuenn. He held the third-base coaching job for three seasons, through Crandall's firing after 1975. 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.
Milwaukee added Walton to Del Crandall's coaching staff for 1973, and he coached first base for the Brewers through 1975. Topps grouped him with Crandall and fellow Milwaukee coaches Al Widmar, Joe Nossek and Harvey Kuenn on its 1974 manager-and-coaches card, #99. Jim Walton played and managed in the minors before coaching first base for Milwaukee. He later scouted for the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau and helped prepare the U.S. team for its 2000 Olympic gold medal.
Kuenn was the Brewers' hitting coach in 1974. Milwaukee had activated him as a player on September 1, 1971, for the sake of his pension benefits, though he never appeared in a game. He worked with hitters including Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Gorman Thomas and Ben Oglivie, and he took over as interim manager when Crandall was fired late in 1975. Topps lists him among Del Crandall's coaches on #99 in the 1974 set. 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.
Sources: Wikipedia (Del Crandall) · Wikipedia (Al Widmar) · Wikipedia (Joe Nossek) · Wikipedia (Jim Walton) · Wikipedia (Harvey Kuenn) · SABR BioProject (Del Crandall) · SABR BioProject (Al Widmar) · SABR BioProject (Joe Nossek) · SABR BioProject (Harvey Kuenn) · Baseball Almanac (Harvey Kuenn) · Baseball Almanac · BaseballCardPedia
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 213 | 8 | 57 | 129 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| SGC | 3 | 0 | 1 | 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 1974 Topps #99 card?
It is card #99 of the 660-card 1974 Topps Baseball set, picturing Del Crandall, Al Widmar, Joe Nossek, Jim Walton and Harvey Kuenn. Managers have their own cards this year, separate from the 24 team cards: twenty Field Leaders cards picture a manager with two to four of his coaches, and #578 Ralph Houk of the Tigers is the one solo manager card. The Athletics, Yankees and Padres have a team card but no manager card. Eight Field Leaders cards include a Hall of Famer, among them the Dodgers' Walter Alston and Tom Lasorda (#144) and coaches Bill Mazeroski (#489) and Larry Doby (#531).
How many cards are in the 1974 Topps Baseball set?
660 cards, tracked as 678 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 660 with none skipped, issued all at once as a single series and printed in equal quantities; 17 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately - fourteen San Diego / "Washington Nat'l Lea." pairs (thirteen Padres player cards and the #226 team card), the three-state #599 Rookie Pitchers, the #608 Apodaco misspelling and the #654 Jesus Alou front without a position.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, BaseballCardPedia, Cardboard Connection, Baseball Almanac, Baseball-Reference, the SABR BioProject and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, PSA & SGC population reports. Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-10-25.