1974 Topps #119 Phillies Field Leaders - Danny Ozark / Carroll Beringer / Bobby Wine / Ray Rippelmeyer / Billy Demars
On this card: Danny Ozark, Carroll Beringer, Bobby Wine, Ray Rippelmeyer, Billy Demars
Uncorrected error: The front misspells Rippelmeyer as "Ripplemeyer".
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 Phillies Field Leaders (Danny Ozark / Carroll Beringer / Bobby Wine / Ray Rippelmeyer / Billy Demars)
Philadelphia went 80-82 in 1974 and finished third in the NL East. Ozark again leads the five-man staff card, #119, with Carroll Beringer, Bobby Wine, Ray Rippelmeyer and Billy DeMars behind him. The front spells coach Ray Rippelmeyer's name Ripplemeyer, an error Topps left uncorrected. Manager of the Philadelphia Phillies from 1973 to 1979, Ozark won three straight NL East titles from 1976 to 1978 and lost the playoffs each time. He had coached the Dodgers under Walter Alston and returned to them as a coach in 1980.
Beringer joined Danny Ozark's Philadelphia staff in 1973 and remained with the Phillies through 1978. Their 1974 Topps manager-and-coaches card, #119, grouped Beringer with Ozark and fellow Philadelphia coaches Bobby Wine, Ray Rippelmeyer and Billy DeMars, with the coaches' small photographs below Ozark's larger picture. Carroll Beringer pitched in the Dodgers' farm system, including 7 seasons with Fort Worth. He later coached for Los Angeles and Philadelphia and, after retiring, recruited players and sports figures for Texas Wesleyan's fundraising banquets.
Wine coached for Danny Ozark's Philadelphia Phillies in 1973. The Phillies' 1974 Topps #119 paired the manager with Wine, Carroll Beringer, Billy DeMars and Ray Rippelmeyer. Rippelmeyer's surname was printed "Ripplemeyer" on the front, an uncorrected error on this manager and coaches card. Bobby Wine was the glove-first shortstop the Phillies and Expos leaned on between 1960 and 1972: a 1963 Gold Glove, the National League fielding lead at short in 1967, a record 137 double plays in 1970, and a .215 career average.
Ray Rippelmeyer was the Phillies' pitching coach when the 1973 club finished last in the National League East at 71-91. Steve Carlton, who never recovered from a spring training illness, went 13-20, and Wayne Twitchell's 2.50 ERA was third in the league. Card #119, the Phillies manager card shared with Danny Ozark, Carroll Beringer, Bobby Wine and Billy Demars, carries a known error that was never corrected: the front prints his surname as 'Ripplemeyer'. A 6-foot-3 right-hander from the farm country around Valmeyer, Illinois, whose whole big league career fit into 18 games for the 1962 Senators - and who later coached the Phillies' pitching staff through three straight division titles.
Mike Schmidt led the National League with 36 home runs in 1974, and Dave Bristol later credited DeMars with evening Schmidt up and shortening his stroke. The Phillies led the NL East at the All-Star break a year after finishing last, then finished third at 80-82, eight games behind Pittsburgh. Card #119 lists Ozark, Carroll Beringer, Bobby Wine, Ray Rippelmeyer and DeMars, and misspells Rippelmeyer as "Ripplemeyer" on the front. That winter DeMars managed Caguas in Puerto Rico. Billy DeMars played 80 games, mostly at shortstop, for the Athletics and Browns between 1948 and 1951, then coached in the majors for 19 years, 13 of them with the Phillies, including their 1980 world championship club.
Sources: Wikipedia (Danny Ozark) · Wikipedia (Carroll Beringer) · Wikipedia (Bobby Wine) · Wikipedia (Ray Rippelmeyer) · Wikipedia (Billy DeMars) · SABR BioProject (Bobby Wine) · SABR BioProject (Ray Rippelmeyer) · SABR BioProject (Billy Demars) · Baseball Almanac (Bobby Wine) · Baseball Almanac · Baseball Almanac (Ray Rippelmeyer) · BaseballCardPedia
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 139 | 2 | 48 | 73 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 #119 card?
It is card #119 of the 660-card 1974 Topps Baseball set, picturing Danny Ozark, Carroll Beringer, Bobby Wine, Ray Rippelmeyer and Billy Demars. 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).
Does 1974 Topps #119 have an error?
The front misspells Rippelmeyer as "Ripplemeyer". It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #119 reads the same way.
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.
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