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Originally Posted by birdman42
Rick, that's quite an assortment of prizes. What's on the other side?
I'm wondering how the pearl necklace and compact got in there. "Just like Dizzy wears" doesn't seem very likely.
Bill
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Here are the other three panels of the 1936 Dizzy Dean Winners Club premium catalog. The prizes are somewhat unusual...but you have to remember that in the 1930s, huge numbers of boys belonged to Radio Orphan Annie's Secret Society and I'm sure many young girls signed up for the Winners Club. Dizzy himself addresses "Boys and girls" on the instruction page.
So while a young man might have had the courage to wear his Betty Boop pin and indestructible pearl necklace into the neighborhood clubhouse in 1936, I suspect his peers - who had ordered the Official Boy Scout Ax and Two-Blade Pocket Knife - helped him see the error of his ways...
By the way, I saw a complete Dizzy Dean Winners Baseball Uniform at a show many years ago but couldn't get the owner to part with it. Any kid who convinced his Mother to buy 68 packages of Grape-Nuts in 1936 doubtless went on to accomplish great things...
