Jacob Misiorowski and Cam Schlittler have joined a very short list together. The 2026 Cy Young voting produced unanimous winners in both leagues for only the third time, following Bob Gibson and Denny McLain in 1968 and Sandy Alcantara and Justin Verlander in 2022.
That pairing is the reason to look beyond two separate award cards. A Misiorowski collector gets a Milwaukee milestone; a Schlittler collector gets a Yankees milestone. A collector of pitching history gets a season that belongs beside just two earlier dual-unanimous years, and Topps has made a shared card for precisely that kind of collection.
The choice is more interesting than picking one player or both. The individual cards offer auto-relic redemptions. The paired card offers dual-autograph redemptions. Their advertised numbered totals happen to match, but the objects tell different stories.
A three-season pitching collection
The BBWAA’s National League announcement identifies 1968, 2022 and 2026 as the three dual-unanimous Cy Young seasons. The gap between the first two stretches across 54 years; the next pairing arrived four years later. It is a compact historical theme, with a clear rule for which seasons belong.
The earlier pairs were McLain in the AL and Gibson in the NL, then Verlander in the AL and Alcantara in the NL. Now Schlittler and Misiorowski supply the third pair. A collection built around those seasons follows a shared award distinction across different players and clubs, rather than depending on a single favorite team.
That does not require all six pitchers to appear in matching card products. The collecting idea is the connection between their seasons. The 2026 release is especially convenient because its paired design places the two winners on one card, making the relationship visible without a long explanation beside the display.
Milwaukee and New York get their own chapters
Misiorowski’s unanimous NL selection gives Brewers collectors a new award marker. The BBWAA places him alongside Corbin Burnes as a Brewers NL Cy Young winner, while the franchise’s earlier awards for Rollie Fingers and Pete Vuckovich came during its American League years. His card can sit within that club history as well as a personal collection.
Schlittler’s AL announcement puts him in a Yankees line that includes unanimous winners Ron Guidry and Gerrit Cole. The award also becomes a point of comparison within a Yankees pitching collection: a team identity can connect cards from different decades even when their designs and formats vary.
Each 2026 winner received all 30 first-place votes in his league. That is the clean fact behind the paired distinction. For collectors, the most useful historical comparison is the shared unanimity; there is no need to turn the article into a comparison of ballot point systems or to rank unrelated card markets by election margin.
The individual cards put one pitcher at the center
Misiorowski’s OS-4 and Schlittler’s OS-5 each combine a portrait with a pitching image and prominent Cy Young lettering. Their vertical layouts make the award winner the main subject. They are natural choices for a player page or team display.
Both advertise auto-relic redemptions numbered /10, /5 and /1. That means the special-card path combines a signature with a relic in the advertised configuration. A collector pursuing that format should look for the exact auto-relic edition, since the ordinary product photograph shows the base design rather than everything promised by a redemption.
The two individual releases have matching edition ladders, but they remain separate cards. A collector can choose the player, the image and the relevant team history without treating one card’s eventual print run as the result for the other. Matching checklists make the formats easier to compare; they do not make the two releases interchangeable.
OS-6 makes the pairing the subject
The shared OS-6 card uses a horizontal split, placing Misiorowski and Schlittler in action side by side. The design changes the emphasis from one award winner to the relationship between two. It is the clearest single-card expression of the third dual-unanimous season.
Its special editions are dual-autograph redemptions at /10, /5 and /1. Those offer both signatures on the advertised card, rather than the individual releases’ auto-relic format. A collector choosing OS-6 is prioritizing the pair. A collector choosing OS-4 or OS-5’s auto-relic is prioritizing one pitcher and that combination of autograph and material.
Each release also lists foil tiers of /50, /25, /10, /5 and /1. Those add to 91. The special redemption ladder adds 16, making 107 advertised numbered entries per release before conditional Chrome additions. The identical total is a useful comparison precisely because it leaves the format decision exposed: auto-relic for one winner, or dual autograph for the pair.
What to look for after ordering
As of November 13, Topps’ NOW archive lists all three Cy Young releases as sold out. Official final print runs for OS-4, OS-5 and OS-6 remain unconfirmed. Each release will have its own production total.
For a secondary-market search, start with the collecting goal and keep the card number in the query. OS-4 and OS-5 lead to the player-centered designs; OS-6 leads to the paired composition. Then distinguish the base, a numbered foil, a redemption and a fulfilled special card before comparing prices or photographs.
There is a strong collection here even without an autograph chase. The two base portraits make an award-winner pair; the horizontal base makes one shared historical marker. The special editions offer different ways to extend the same idea. The point of the set is already settled in the award record: only three seasons have produced this particular pitching double.
Source note
Award winners and paired-season history: BBWAA. Card designs and advertised editions: Topps. Product and archive checks completed November 13, 2026, after 8 p.m. CST. Numbered totals count each advertised edition once and exclude conditional Chrome additions.