I'll have to dig out some more scans but for now this is one of my favorite Topps oddball pieces, from the 1976 Cloth Prototypes:

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...psfl3zimlz.jpg

Cloths
 

Hey Dave, I think I have asked this, but do you know which version you have ?
SCD reports there are 4 different versions. I think I have them in thick felt, thin felt and silk. I have a 4th pair but can not tell if it is fact different from the others.

Some oddball indians
 

A few oddball Cleveland Indians (or naps)

Al, I believe mine is silk as it has the backing and feels essentially the same as the 77's. I have one or two of the other types and may have inadvertently sold a couple as well thinking they were all the same textures. I want to get all 4 textures at some point and it appears a supply of these is slowly enetering the market over the past few years. The thinnest one I had came from a roll that had quite a few Dyers on it and which I cut off myself around 1990 or so. It was just the Dyer felt repeated vertically and rolled up although I can't remember if there was a tube in the middle. I've at least seen all 4 types now and they can be differentiated.

Here are my favorite oddball cards which where found on the back of Nabisco Team Flakes cereal boxes in 1969. I like the way these cards look and the player selection is awesome.

1969 Nabisco Team Flakes

Hank Aaron
http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...%20PSA%206.JPG

Willie Mays
http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...%20%287%29.JPG

Some more offbeat stuff from my collection, aka The Festival of Bric-A-Brac:

Nolan Ryan team issue:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...0Mets%20TI.JPG

1963 World Series stadium premium:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...0sheet%201.JPG
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...0sheet%202.JPG

Kellogg's cereal box panels:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ack%20full.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...box%20back.jpg

I still dunno WTF this is:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ll%20Stamp.jpg

Blotters:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ggio%20etc.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...%20blotter.JPG

1954 Cleveland mail order brochure:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...s%20Ad%202.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...s%20Ad%201.jpg

1910 Polo Grounds info card that came with a season pass, from the collection of The Sports Collectors Bible writer and boxing HOFer Bert Sugar:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ass%20card.jpg

my contributions to this oddball thread - some regional team issue photos/pc's
 

1967 Cincinnati Reds Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...67%20Bench.jpg

1974 KC Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...74%20Brett.jpg

1965 St. Louis Cardinals Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...lton%20_2_.jpg

1975 Montreal Expos Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...r%20-%20TI.jpg

1956-57 Brooklyn Dodgers Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...20Drysdale.jpg

1958 Omaha Cardinals Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...20Gibson_1.jpg

1957 Washington Senators Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...erzog%20TI.jpg

1965 Kansas City A's Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...IMG_0007_3.jpg

1966 Chicago Cubs Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...%20Jenkins.jpg

1965 Houston Astros Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...20Morgan_1.jpg

1977 Baltimore Orioles Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...e/IMG_0009.jpg

1965 Baltimore Orioles Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...5%20Palmer.jpg

1964 Cincinnati Reds Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...64%20Perez.jpg

1957-59 Baltimore Orioles Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...20Robinson.jpg

1963 Cincinnati Reds Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...%20TI%20PC.jpg

1967 NY Mets Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...aver%20_2_.jpg

1966 LA Dodgers Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...20PSA%2010.jpg

1950 Winston-Salem Cardinals Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...0%20Weaver.jpg

That looks to have sat in the sun for a long time.

Brooks "Colbert" Robinson
 

[QUOTE=h2oya311;1459771] 1957-59 Baltimore Orioles Team Issue:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...20Robinson.jpg

Derek,

Can you please send to my attention when you have an opportunity; thanks! :D
No one wants a team issue photo with the middle name spelled incorrectly...

Regards,

Mark

Baltimore and Phillies Broadside
 

Really like the odd ball stuff and while this is not a card it makes for a nice display piece for an O's and/or Phillies fan...

Phillies v O's
 

I don't know who won, but if I were Pete Rose I would have bet on the O's

Good Shot Mister Vicious....
 

.....like my granddaughters sings constantly : " and the haters gotta hate hate hate hate ":)


...

" Let's Buy Two "
 

http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/204295...SHPULL_NEW.JPG


...anyone ever see any of these in a TPG holder ?

..1965 Topps " Push-Pull" --odd set of mostly historical personalities , few were sports figures... I think I remember a " Grant / Lee " ??

..

Orioles
 

Al,

I'm sure Pete would have won and would have won BIG! (I'm a hater :D)

Mike,

I "think" I've seen them in a SGC holder before, but personally haven't seen them in a PSA holder. Unsure if they grade them or not.

push pull
 

sgc grades with the shutter
psa doesnt grade even without the shutter and no one knows why

Never understood why some Push-Pulls were in B&W and some in color.

Mike Garcia
 

Sgc grades them. I have 4 mantle/ Berra's between sgc 45-80. Psa does not grade this issue.

Push Pull
 

Stengel is the 3d baseball subject, smiling or not. But at least he has his card to himself

http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...539/img053.jpg
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...539/img054.jpg

push pull
 

heres my sgc

Bench, Rose, Gilligan
 

Very nice looking; never seen this particular card before.

Heres mine
 

Okay

Bing
 

Compliments of Bob Lemke

https://s3.amazonaws.com/hires-aviar...1dc52bb562.jpg

Topps Scoop Subset
 

http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...539/img073.jpg
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...539/img074.jpg

Krogers grocery chain gave them away. I don't know the mfg'r.

That would make sense, they were a promotional giveaway during that fateful season of 1969 along with the color photos (Jewel Foods), frosted glass tumblers, coffee mugs, bumper stickers (Dunkin' Donuts), dinner place mats (IHOP), etc., from Chicago area stores and restaurants.

Aaron postcards
 

Here are some Hank Aaron postcards that I just got back from PSA

Aaron Postcards
 

Man...those Aaron postcards are very COOL...

Delighted that Todd revived this thread, and coincidentally enough, he did so with one from a set of cards we wanted to show off:
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...3.jpg~original

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...a.jpg~original

Funny thing -- we're sure you're right and that those were on Team Flakes -- but we remember cutting them out of the backs of boxes
of some short-lived Bugles/Doritos-like snack food with a name like Zonkers or Zippity-Doos or Fiffle-Faffle or something...

Back to Bob's original post and the invitation to display some non-baseball, non-sports, '60s oddities as well -- does anyone else
remember these?
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...g.jpg~original

They came with a thick slab of minutely-ribbed transparent plastic, same size as the cards, which you'd place over a card
and then subtly wiggle them together so that the shaded areas of the image would appear to be solid and moving.
Kind of a sadistic set, really, with helpless tiny humans being eaten, crushed, or incinerated by dinosaurs, dragons, and giant robots...

those oddball dinosaur cards are cool. are they sportflics type cards?

Hi Bob -- well, they're maybe alike in only the vaguest sense. We're not that familiar with the Sportflics issues, but from what we can see,
it looks like Sportflics are more akin to the 1970 MLB Promo "hologram" cards from Kellogg cereals -- soft plastic finish over the top of
multiple images or something.
The Monster Magic Action cards are much more primitive. Unless you have the "Magic Lens" transparent hard plastic slab, the cards just look
exactly like what you see in the scans (they're 3.5 x 2.5", by the way, on slightly thinner cardstock than most '60s baseball cards) --
some distinct images with lots of indistinct horizontal lines. When you move the "lens" over the image, the ultra-thin, closely-bunched ribs
in the "lens" distort some of those lines on the card, partially obscuring some of the lines while highlighting others, which sort of rearranges
the poses and action. Monster eyes roll back and forth, wings and fins flap, puny humans flail helplessly. So in the vaguest sense of how
the images "move," they're almost more akin to the Push-Pull cards.
Not sure how many different cards were produced -- we've got an even dozen different images.
They seem like something that would've come out of Japan originally...

"puny humans flail helplessly..."


very cool! ...and i like them even more so now w/ that entailing description!!!

I've not seen this one before:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...s%20Lyle_1.jpg

Baseball Dinner Program

A huge JD McCarthy and some newspaper clippings of Mr. Mantle

1975 Chicago Tribune wire photo of Cool Papa Bell and Lou Brock with Bell handing Brock the base he stole for number 105, passing Ty Cobb.

It was also the photo used for the Cool Papa Bell card in the corner.

Brock
 

Really like the Brock photo. Really neat to find the photo and a card that's associated...

Orioles
 

How about the bat I received on "bat day" at Memorial Stadium. Can you imagine bat day in this day and age?!? Wouldn't be pretty!

T shirt
 

How bout a tee from back in the day. Pictures a few decent players...

Matt,

Love the odd ball programs and these dinner one's are really cool. Do you have any with Brooks pictured?

Any luck on the floating head pieces?

Thanks Mark. I'll do a check on oddball Brooksie stuff next trip to storage. As for the floating heads, nothing really new. I've inspected them a thousand times and I can say that they are all exactly uniform in size. All the lines seem to be professionally(machine) cut. I truly believe that they were issued like that. Hopefully I can confirm that as soon as I find someone else with them.

Original McDonald's employee manual
 

I can't remember what year this is from. I've had it for about 8 years.
My wife and I met working at McDonalds in 1976.

Some great stuff in this thread!

My mom worked ay Krogers and would bring home a few for myself and the neighborhood kids every so often. Krogers stores aren't in the Chicago area anymore.

found this in a random set of boxes and took a while to research as it's blank backed, but seems to be called the 1998 rayovac mini and bvg seems to be the only company that grades them, not that i plan on getting it graded:

http://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...%20rayovac.jpg

1960 Baltimore American Brooks Robinson:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...20Robinson.jpg

Adam,

"FINALLY" someone, other than myself, posts something cool of Brooks!

It's so funny to me that the majority of the cutouts from newspapers are never cut squarely. Did we not know how to cut w/scissors back in the day?!?

Adam, very cool piece of ephemera!
One of the Buffalo newspapers did a similar series featuring Bison (International League) players in... must've been 1963,
we remember Pumpsie Green being in the set. Clipped 'em and saved 'em as kids, and as kids will, eventually lost 'em at some point.
Anybody here ever seen (or have) any of those?

Mark: "Did we not know how to cut w/scissors back in the day?!?"
That would explain the barbers we went to back then...

Meet The Cardinals
 

http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...psa1f88ea5.jpg
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...psb425e3a1.jpg
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...psa5bf4577.jpg
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...ps25d23c18.jpg
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...psed6fe7b2.jpg
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7f3ca738.jpg
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...ps007a66ec.jpg
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...psfb07aa2f.jpg
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1ed31969.jpg

oddball post-war
 

1978 Mexican League Sticker of the Man of Steal:

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...%20Sticker.jpg

1977 topps cloth stickers #40 nolan ryan

blank front/back proof:

http://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...kers.proof.jpg

http://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...proof.back.jpg

You gotta get it graded! :o

Favorite Thread
 

I really enjoy seeing all of the oddball items and I'll have to post some more Brooksie junk if no one posts (since that's all I got).

Rob... Know you gotta have some unique Giants items to post.

David... Those Brock odd items are awesome; got some more?!?

Al... Keep 'em coming!

In the meantime how bout a pic that screams the '70's.

Ryan Proof
 

Bob,

Forgot to mention that I really liked the Ryan proof. Can you provide some detail on this one?

Been enjoying this thread - I have lived in the oddball baseball world for a long time, so fun to see the posts! Been meaning to contribute, but work and life stuff always gets in the way!

I really like the H-O Oatmeal records. Picked one up with the original envelope and order form quite few years back. Nice combination of a color and a b&w image on the front and back.

I agree on the H-O Oatmeal. I picked up my only one at a National several years back when it just caught my eye on the last day as something that was a perfect buy for leftover cash. Also have the order form but no envelope. Too bad they didn't have a larger player selection though.
http://photos.imageevent.com/imoverh...53H-Ocampy.jpg

Nice Campy, Todd! I am guessing that it was probably a NYC and surrounding area thing, given the Brooklyn address of the company, and the selection of 2 Dodgers, 1 Yank (Allie Reynolds), and 1 Giant (Whitey Lockman). I have seen them listed as 52 or 53, but the envelope is postmarked January of 55, so I am guessing 53 or probably 54 is more likely. I would suspect that the record has them speaking and giving tips, but I have been hesitant to drop a record needle on mine!

H-O Records
 

[QUOTE I really like the H-O Oatmeal records. Picked one up with the original envelope and order form quite few years back. Nice combination of a color and a b&w image on the front and back.[/QUOTE]

I really like these records as well and especially like the way the B&W portion has the player displayed with the cool looking field background. Thanks for sharing.

I know the O's had a few over the years; here's a pic of one...

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/...20Kielbasa.jpg
http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/...blem%20Yaz.jpg

I recently picked this "odd-ball" card up in a lot...a 1960 ED-U-CARDS 41 Babe Ruth

Cool Babe. He "made" home runs.

I was working at Home Base around the time Jordan was pitching for Rayovac. I have something similar and I think they were stickers. I remember they were inside packages of batteries, but they really weren't cards per se. He was all over the packaging and point of sale displays too.

I have them somewhere, but finding them right now would be a miracle.

Yaz
 

I don't think you can get that much more odd-ball than "KIELBASA POWER"! Love it... Thanks so much for the pic; VERY cool.

Also, that Yaz patch is NICE!

Thanks you guys for posting some oddball stuff; you'd probably get tired of seeing Brooksie oddball junk if you didn't. :D

Thanks, that patch is a 1978 Penn Emblem player patch. It's currently at PSA. They grade the set, but have never graded the Yaz.

Yaz Patch
 

I've seen a few of those patches in the past, Palmer, Rose, and I think Carew. Now I haven't seen any graded so that will be new. I'm not a registry guy, but are those listed w/in the Yaz master or maybe a part of a '78 Penn Emblem set?

Love the oddball stuff and enjoy viewing others collections. I particularly like the player collector items, but other stuff is cool as well. Need to post some more Yaz stuff if you have additional odd items...

Yaz Patch
 

Duplicate

They do grade the Penn Emblem Patches. The most famous one with the most graded copies is the Pete Rose, which comes in 2 (or 3?) variations. The Yaz isn't part of the master set composite because there are no graded copies. As soon as mine is graded I will have it added to the master composite and send my friend Manny scrambling. He has the #1 Yaz Master.

Ask and ye shall receive. More oddball Yaz:

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/...Yaz%20PSA8.jpg

Pink = pop 4, 1 higher

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/...0Yaz%20PSA.jpg

Green = pop 1, 2 higher

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/...0Yaz%20PSA.jpg

Salmon = pop 2, none higher.
I have no idea why the color of this scan is so bad. All the scans of the other matchbooks came out good. Anyway, this really is salmon colored, lol.

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/...Yaz%20PSA9.jpg

Aqua = pop 2, none higher

I also have the orange matchbook in PSA 6. There are still 5 colors I want to eventually add to my master set.

Matchbooks
 

Thanks so much for posting the Yaz matchbooks. Those are very nice! Wish Brooks had something like those; that would be a fun search for all of the different colors. The condition you have them in is amazing to me!

Thanks for your kind words. I bought my 5 matchbooks raw at a show for $2 each. I passed on other colors that were in worse condition. That same dealer had the kielbasa labels. And the next time I went to that show I bought the Penn Emblem patch from him.

I think that about does it for truly oddball Yaz items. I have a bunch of pins and food discs and such, but nothing as unusual as what I've already posted.

hey dan!

glad to see ya over venture over here to this sandbox a lil! ;)

here's a oddball in every sense of the word:

http://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...ugoslavian.jpg
http://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...avian.back.jpg

1989 cao muflon, #64*

manute bol

* yugoslavian card. apparently the jordan is super rare and goes for buku.

very cool! if ya end up finding some one day, lemme know. would definitely be interested in seeing/purchasing one.

actually found this while trying to research and figure out where this came from. it was $5 shipped and figured I couldn't go wrong considering it's still in oem packaging. who knows. it could take off one day w/ how crazy jordan collectors can be. it's actually a nice compliment to it....

love that it says "best if used by jan 2005"

http://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...20complete.jpg

here's a few:

First are a pair of NY and SF Giants bottle openers....sold by Abercrombie and Fitch (identical openers are also marked "Loyal Prod.").

The first is a self explanatory unlicensed item. The second piece was made to keep your cigs from getting crushed. There is a 1951 schedule on the back.

Here's a coffee percolator presented to Ira Blue when the Giants arrived in SF. My buddy has one presented to Eddie Murphy (presumably, not that Eddie Murphy). Also shown is a coffee decanter. Here's the lowdown on Ira Blue:

http://everything.explained.today/Ira_Blue/

Giants
 

Rob,

Thanks for sharing! You pretty much know that someone has to have great odd-ball items when they have (no cards) in their signature.

Love the items!

Orioles
 

Go O's!

just picked this up. have been looking for a while....

1981 rawlings nolan ryan tag

http://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...wlings.tag.jpg