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03-04-2009, 02:05 PM
Posted By: <b>ChiSoxFan</b><p>While looking at the SGC Pop Report for Neal Ball cards, I noticed this card:<br><br><br>1953 Baseball Quaker Oats Ripley's Believe It Or Not! #11 NEAL BALL<br><br><br>Does anyone have some information on this set as I can't find anything.<br><br>Thanks,<br>ChiSoxFan<br><br>Looking for T206 in Poor to Good condition.
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03-04-2009, 08:27 PM
Posted By: <b>Dave Hornish</b><p>I believe the common parlance is Quaker Sports Oddities and they are relatively common.
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03-05-2009, 05:33 AM
Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>Quaker Sports Oddities... Mr. Sugar's work attributes the cards to 1954.<br><br>F-279-20 is his designation.<br><br>He lists #11 in the set as Betty Robinson. There's a lot of 16 of the cards on eBay that lists #11 as Betty Robinson, too. <br><br>I don't have one, so I don't know. But I have doubts about #11 being Neal Ball. Mr. Sugar lists 27 cards, none of them sound like baseball cards to me except for #27, Yankee Stadium. Most are football, I think. Several colleges, Bronko Nagusrski, hockey, Eddie Rickenbacker...
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03-05-2009, 08:38 AM
Posted By: <b>Red</b><p>It's the Ripleys set.<br><br>If you search the non-sport forum I think there's a thread about them.<br><br><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1236271098.JPG" alt="[linked image]">
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03-05-2009, 11:37 AM
Posted By: <b>ChiSoxFan</b><p>to everyone helping with getting info on this set.<br><br>Red -- Do own the card in your post? If so, is it for sale?<br><br>ChiSoxFan<br><br>Looking for T206 in Poor to Good condition.
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03-05-2009, 12:04 PM
Posted By: <b>Red</b><p>Not for sale. Although it's sports related the set it comes from is probably considered more of a non-sport issue. I'd try the non-sports forum and there may be more than one Ripley's set that would contain the card. The card I showed was 39 and your checklist showed 11.