Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[Mark70Z]

Day 315 (November 10, 2020 – 315)

I remember when I was in school, we used to cover all our books (maybe we were required to, who knows). I wanted, or I thought needed, Orioles book covers even though I usually just got the paper grocery bag type covers. Occasionally I was able to talk my mom into an Oriole book cover which were like the one pictured below. Man, she was so good at covering books.

1969 Baltimore Orioles book cover

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I wasn’t much of a Nabisco Team Flakes cereal fan (the four-grain energy cereal), but I didn’t know at the time that the cereal boxes had cards (mini-posters) on the back of the box to cut out. The 1969 Team Flakes consisted of 24 cards in three series of eight cards. As you can see, they didn’t pay any MLB royalties, so no insignias are shown on the cards. The photos on the Nabisco cards are the same that were used on the 1968 Sports Illustrated Posters.

1969 Nabisco Team Flakes

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