Identification of Dizzy Dean premium...

[leftygrove10]

Can someone please identify this Dizzy Dean premium for me? It measures 8 x 10 and has a blank back. Thanks!

[Oldtix]

Nice item! This was a premium available by mail from the Post Grape-Nuts "Dizzy Dean Winners Club" from 1935-36. It was one of the cheaper items...only one boxtop...but it is much scarcer than the metal pins. Here's a scan of the 1936 premium catalog from 'ol Diz:

[Al C.risafulli]

Wow. That's beautiful.

-Al

[FrankWakefield]

Rick, that was one fine demonstration of the depth of knowledge of this board!

Well done!!

[leftygrove10]

Thanks, Rick, for your feedback both on this page and through our personal communication. I appreciate your help!

[Oldtix]

Aw shucks, fellas...

[canjond]

I have a Dizzy Dean Winners pin that is very different to the one shown above in the pamphlet. Mine is about a 3 inch long bat. In the center of the bat is the headshot as above. The bat barrel says 'Dizzy Dean Winners." The pin is dark brinze.

Any ideas?

[dstudeba]

Damn impressive Rick, good job.

[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

[Oldtix]

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

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...

[Oldtix]

Originally Posted by canjond

I have a Dizzy Dean Winners pin that is very different to the one shown above in the pamphlet. Mine is about a 3 inch long bat. In the center of the bat is the headshot as above. The bat barrel says 'Dizzy Dean Winners." The pin is dark brinze.

Any ideas?

Sure, Jon. The bat version was offered in the 1935 catalog. There was also a different Winners Ring in 1935 (diamond shape). Here's a scan showing a number of baseball cereal premiums from the 1930s.



Pictured (clockwise) are the 1939 Baseball Centennial Pencil and mailer from Wheaties/Jack Armstrong; the 1933 Wheaties Babe Ruth Flip Book; the 1935 Quaker Babe Ruth Champions brass club badge; the 1934 Quaker Babe Ruth Baseball Club Cello button; the 1935 Quaker Babe Ruth Champions Cello button; the 1936 Grape-Nuts Dizzy Dean Winners Club bust membership pin; the 1936 Grape-Nuts Winners Club ring; the 1935 Grape-Nuts Winners Club bat membership pin; the 1935 Grape-Nuts Winners Club ring; the 1937 Post Huskies Club ring; the 1937 Post Huskies Club membership pin; the 1935 Grape-Nuts Dizzy Dean Winners Club Good Luck Coin; the 1939 Quaker Baseball Centennial Baseball Scorer Fob; the 1935 Quaker Babe Ruth Baseball Scorer Fob (with Boston Cap); the 1934 Quaker Babe Ruth Baseball Scorer Fob and Strap (with Yankees Cap); and the 1935 Quaker Babe Ruth Big Book of Baseball.

[Oldtix]

FYI, we took this thread over to the Memorabilia Forum as "1930s Cereal Company Baseball Premiums". More images are posted over there.