These second basemen were second-to-none in what was a true Fall Classic

Bobby Richardson was just trying to be practical. With a third child on the way, it made little sense to keep the sporty, two-seat Chevy Corvette given to him for winning the World Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1960. So, a few months before reporting to the New York Yankees spring training complex in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the following February, he traded it and his antiquated station wagon for a new Jeep and a new station wagon.

Now, hindsight is 20/20, and if the Yankees All-Star second baseman could have peered into a crystal ball, he would have held on to the car that’s become a classic. But, hey, how was he to know its value would increase 25-fold?

“What’s funny is I actually re-purchased the Vette a few years after I sold it in December of 1960, but I didn’t keep it long the second time either,’’ the 85-year-old Richardson said recently from his Sumter, S.C., home. “My friend has an identical car – except it’s cascade green rather than white with red upholstery