Hostess Twinkies with back variations.

Suzy Q box

Side note. Do you think Lou's parents were having a little fun when naming him? Louis (and) Clark?? Spelling aside, that's pretty funny.

I always wondered if he was named after them, but have no idea.

1977 Schedule.

Epic thread, thanks for sharing!

Thanks, it has been fun and I have appreciated the kind words as I go along.

Here is a 9 card sheet of OPC from 1977

77 Topps 4 cards sheet. On the OPC, Royster is above Brock, on the Topps, Evans is. Also the numbers are different.

1977 6 card sheet. I have no idea why the front scan shrunk the cards.

Honey, I shrunk the cards.... Although, maybe I have the ultra rare front side mini's......

Mini Fronts
 

David Copperfieldish

In order top row - 1977 OPC, 1977 Topps

Bottom Row - 1977 Venezuela, 1977 Cloth both variations.

Let's see if Al has a complete set of 77 Cloth with back variations, or Al, do you know what the variation is?

1977 printers scrap with a ghost of Lou Brock. It is tough to see it, but at the top the "Cardinals" can be seen and on bottom left the uniform number 20 is easy to see.

I've been crazy busy with work (which I suppose is good....) so missed a few days. Starting off 1978 here is the 6 card panel from Dynamite magazine.

1978 Dynamite Magazine 6 card panel.

I lost my Internet Explorer browser Wednesday, so have been in computer limbo for some days. Finally figured out how to install Firefox, so here we go again with the Lou Brock thread.

4 card panel, probably shortened up Dynamite magazine panel.

Dynamite Magazine Topps panels
 

For some reason, when he was editor of the SCD Standard Catalog, Bob Lemke listed a half dozen or so specific Dynamite magazine panels from the 70s in the Catalog. Since my Topps collecting parameter was anything and everything listed in that Catalog through 1994, I set out to find the listed panels. I think I have found all but one (which is from 1979)

I haven't heard Dynamite magazine in 35+ years. Remember getting it in 3rd and 4th grade.

It's been a while. My hard drive crashed and took all the scans with it. Picking up from a week ago, here is the 78 Kellogg, including one still in the package.

1978 RC Cola iron on. Lou was not on a can, but made this issue. Sorry for the blurry scan.

1978 and 1979 Sportcaster. As far as I know, the only way to distinguish the different years is the bottom left corner which has the date and printing location.

Sportcaster articles about Brock, as well as the covers and backs for them.

1978 Topps and OPC Record breaker cards. The blank back is a proof from Topps Vault.

Topps and OPC.

Finally got some more scanned after the hard drive crash..... 1979 Topps 4 card panel (perhaps partial Dynamite Mag panel).

79 Topps and OPC regular card. 79 Topps record breaker. 80 Topps highlight with Yaz for 3000 hits, and 81 Topps Thirstbreak gum wrapper.

1979 Big Time Baseball. This is 8x11.

1979 Cachet celebrating Lou Brock Day

Topps 1981 Thirst Break Gum
 

I finished a set of those, 54 I think. Baseball, basketball, football, soccer, hockey, track and field, fencing and boxing represented. To finish it I bought 2 "unopened" boxes. The figures were on the wrappers around the gum. It was a messy and tedious process to separate the wrappers from that old and turned to goo gum without tearing them...and then to clean the goo off them. I still have some unopened packs if anyone needs one:)

Al - you never answered my question about the variation on the back of the 1977 Cloth stickers.

Here is the 1979 Dynamite magazine, with the cards inside. You need this magazine if you are a Sergio Ferrer master collector.

[QUOTE=David W;1274404]Al - you never answered my question about the variation on the back of the 1977 Cloth stickers.
Nobody asked me, but every card in the 1977 Topps Cloth Sticker Set has either one asterisk or two asterisks on the back of the card.

Cliff got it. I am totally unsure why they are like that, or if one is harder to find than the other.

Cloth Stickers
 

I was aware of but had not collected the differences. I think maybe Doug Goodman here collected sets of both. Not sure about Larry S. I know they did the 64 Tattoos with different color wrappers. I just went for a single set of those as well

1980 Liberty Matchbooks. There are a few other colors I haven't bothered to pick up.

Jumping back a few years, here is the 76 Hostess Twinkie. It seems to be hard to find. It's the last of the Hostess cards I needed.

This is most likely from 1980, as it lists Yaz with 3009 hits, which is what he had after the 1979 season. It is a 45 RPM record. No, I have not played it, I gave my turntable away a couple of years ago.

Nice record.


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1981 McMillan Calendar.

1979 Wall Schedule.

Exhibit style card only it is 11x14. Not sure of the date, probably late 70's, early 80's. I've got several other players, they included active players at the time, as well as retired players.

1967
 

Lou Brock odd-ball
 

I really love the odd-ball stuff that was put out; really neat Lou items. That record is so cool!

Al...what is the '67 piece?

1967
 

An ash tray...or now maybe a candy tray :)

Somewhat interesting thing about that ashtray/candy tray Al--- it shows both Jack Lamabe and Al Jackson as pitchers. Lamabe was traded to the Redbirds on July 16, 1967 for a player to be named later, who ended up being Al Jackson three months later (10/13/67). Jackson was unceremoniously dumped the day after the World series ended.

Trades
 

That is interesting Todd. That tray always reminds me of two things.....how happy I was by then that we had traded Broglio to the Cubs for Brock :D...and how sad I was immediately when later we traded Carlton to the Phils for Rick Wise:(

Al's ashtray appears from time to time on Ebay, always priced fairly high, I've never gotten one.

This is a shopping bag from Lou Brock's Sport Shop at the airport.

1970's team issue cards.

Dugout Photo
 

So, who are the two guys in the dugout . :)

It looks like #23 and #27, which I think would likely be #23 Ted Simmons and #27 Dal Maxvill. That looks like it could be Dal Maxvill on the right, but it's definitely not Ted Simmons on the left.

Some more 1970's team issue, this one in the envelope, although the envelope is about destroyed.

1964 Charlie James
1965, 1966 Tito Francona
1967 Jack Lamabe
1968 - on Ted Simmons

Maxvill had #27 for the entire period

More 1970's team issue photos.

2 more 1970's team issue photos. The one on the right looks like it was taken in someone's back yard.

Continuing on in the genre "Black and white stadium/team photos, here is another one, looks like late 60's.

1968 color team photo.

1968
 

Sigh, the year of Mickey Lolich :(

Yes, and then who would have thought he would have a better career than Denny McLain???????

1969 scorecard with autographs.

Oddly, the Reitz and McBride are clearly not from 1969.

The listed rosters of both the Cardinals and the Cubs on the back of the scorecard are clearly 1974 rosters. Is it possible the Cardinals used left over 1969 fronts and printed 1974 backs on them?

I scanned 2 different programs, so there is no mystery. One from 69 and one from 75.

I am getting close to finishing up the 60's and 70's oddball stuff I've picked up over the last couple months. Early on I scanned a strip of 3 of these 1964 Transferettes with Brock, Elston, and Schaeffer. I recently picked up a whole sheet of them.

Brock as a Cub
 

Going back to post # 3, Brock looks unhappy as a Cub. Heck, none of the above Cubs look happy. Kennedy appears to be practicing grin and bear it :)

Another stadium team issue photo - 8x11 late 60's or early 70's.

Some wire photos. I don't really collect them, there are a lot out there, but they were in a bulk lot of misc stuff I bought a while back. This one also has the newspaper clipping of the photo, I thought that was kind of cool.

Another wire photo.

A record book and Baseball Digest cover. I haven't even attempted to collect the magazine covers he is on, there are hundreds. I think I probably picked these up at yard sales or somewhere.

1979 Lou Brock Day program. It is a fold out program, with stats and pictures and info on the inside.

1980 Exhibits, all 3 colors.

Iron on patch from the late 70's

Stadium giveaway bobble head. Thank you Al for sending it to me several years ago.

Marriott Palm Beach Bobble Head. I am not sure how this was given out

Brock
 

In that one he has a sort of creepy like Chucky smirk

....and Curt 'Oops' Flood.

And the controversy when Brock did not slide at home and was tagged out by Bill Freehan.

They actually both got Dodge Dart endorsements out of that play.

Dart made 2 postcards for promo purposes, one of Lou and one of Freehan.

Briggs and Stratton Bobble Head.

Lou
 

He looks intoxicated

LOL. Maybe it's the angle of the picture.....

From the Cooperstown Bears collection.

Brock
 

His Cubs Roots are showing

Cornflakes box, early 90's I think.

Brock
 

Thanks so much for sharing your Brock items! Love to continue to view...