help needed identifying piersall card
 

Posted By: <b>jamie</b><p>This is a long shot but I'm trying to identify a card for my father. <BR><BR>In the early 50's, he went to a promotion at a local grocery chain in Rhode Island (All Mark maybe?) for a chocolate syrup. Jimmy Piersall was signing autographs on this card- it featured Piersall in a batting stance, black and white, blank back, with a small logo for the syrup in the corner. <BR><BR>I've looked all over the web, Ebay, and Beckett's price guides to no avail

help needed identifying piersall card
 

Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>......

help needed identifying piersall card
 

Posted By: <b>jamie</b><p>unfortunately, no- and thats all the info we were able to salvage from my dads head (years of drinking fine quality guinness have taken their toll).

help needed identifying piersall card
 

Posted By: <b>Bob Lemke</b><p>Piersall appears on more than a handful of grocery-product cards circa 1955. We've had Cain's mayo and potato chips, Neptune Sardines and Colonial Meats listed in the Standard Catalog previously and the 2005 book will have a listing for Coffee Time Syrup, though a different pose than you describe. One or the other of these show up a couple of times a year on eBay. We list them about $50-60 each in NM. Hope this helps.