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One-card wonders, update 4

My decision to rename this series , formerly known as "One and Done," to "One-Card Wonders" is a stroke of fortune. I can now gear my research regarding which players received one card -- and one card only -- toward particular years and focus on the music one-hit wonders from that particular year. That way I get to play music when I'm doing the post, and confining each post to a single year will mean this series will last until we're all sick of Night Owl Cards! (Yeah, some of you are sick of me already, but you're not reading anymore anyway). This is an exciting development. Even though I initially planned to focus on years when I collected cards, at least at the start, I decided to go back in time a bit, to 1967. The year '67 is a strange and unfamiliar one for me in terms of cards. I'm still figuring out who is in the 1967 Topps set and the names do not roll off the tongue as they did in, say, 1979. So it took some time to pick out ...