Steve Carlton Baseball Card 1983 Topps No. 70

Steve Carlton Baseball Card 1983 Topps No. 70 in Near Mint Condition See Photos. Steve Carlton, known by his nickname "Lefty," was one of the most dominant and intimidating pitchers in Major League Baseball history. His illustrious career, spanning from 1965 to 1988, was primarily defined by his transformative tenure with the Philadelphia Phillies, following a successful start with the St. Louis Cardinals where he won his first World Series. Renowned for his hard, biting slider and incredible durability, Carlton's pinnacle season came in 1972 when he achieved the rare pitching Triple Crown, winning 27 games for a last-place Phillies team, accounting for an astonishing 46% of his team's victories. A member of the exclusive 300-win club and the first pitcher to surpass 4,000 career strikeouts, Carlton was a ten-time All-Star and the first pitcher to ever win four Cy Young Awards. His relentless work ethic and intense focus on the mound culminated in a second World Series championship with the Phillies in 1980 and his first-ballot induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994, cementing his legacy as one of the greatest left-handed pitchers the game has ever seen.