post-war guys...your oddball items?

[ALR-bishop]

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

[sflayank]

heres my sgc

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by Big Red Machine

Very nice looking; never seen this particular card before.

[rjackson44]

Okay

[ALR-bishop]

Compliments of Bob Lemke

[ALR-bishop]

[RTK]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

1969 Unknown manufacturer iron-on t-shirt transfer

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

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by RTK

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.

[RobertC]

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

[Mark70Z]

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

[Butch7999]

Delighted that Todd revived this thread, and coincidentally enough, he did so with one from a set of cards we wanted to show off:




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?


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...

[begsu1013]

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

[Butch7999]

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...

[begsu1013]

"puny humans flail helplessly..."


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

[Exhibitman]

I've not seen this one before:

[Laxcat]

Baseball Dinner Program

[Laxcat]

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

[David W]

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.

[Mark70Z]

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

[Mark70Z]

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!

[Mark70Z]

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

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by Laxcat

Baseball Dinner Program

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?

[Laxcat]

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.

[DanP]

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.

[ooo-ribay]

Some great stuff in this thread!

[RTK]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

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.

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.

[begsu1013]

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:

[Exhibitman]

1960 Baltimore American Brooks Robinson:

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

1960 Baltimore American Brooks Robinson:

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?!?

[Butch7999]

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...

[ALR-bishop]

[h2oya311]

1978 Mexican League Sticker of the Man of Steal:

[begsu1013]

1977 topps cloth stickers #40 nolan ryan

blank front/back proof:

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

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:

You gotta get it graded!

[Mark70Z]

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.

[Mark70Z]

Bob,

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

[laughlinfan]

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.

[nolemmings]

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.

[laughlinfan]

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!

[Mark70Z]

[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...

[DBesse27]

[savedfrommyspokes]

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

[DBesse27]

Cool Babe. He "made" home runs.

[mrmopar]

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.

Originally Posted by begsu1013

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:

[Mark70Z]

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.

[DBesse27]

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.

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by DBesse27

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.

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...

[Mark70Z]

Duplicate

[DBesse27]

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:



Pink = pop 4, 1 higher



Green = pop 1, 2 higher



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.



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.

[Mark70Z]

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!