A year of Lou Brock

[David W]

1975 Mengler/Peterson. These were non licensed cards intended to get autographs on. As I understand MLB or the Players Union or both forced him to stop making and/or selling them. They pop up on ebay from time to time. Mine came with a return sellers address name of Mengler, so perhaps he found a way after 35 years to unload his stacks of cards.

[David W]

This is a test lid from 1975 or 1976 by Michael Schechter and Associates. It uses the Linnett drawings which came out in 1976 and pre dates the numerous disc sets MSA would put out over the next couple of years. Mike Mosier of Columbia City Collectibles dated it at 1975 and there aren't many people more knowledgeable about odd ball stuff than them, so I am putting it in the 1975 file. I have never seen another one.

[Rich Klein]

It appears to be a display with Jay Publishing stadium issue cards

That can not be correct, Jay Publishing ceased to exist circa 1965 when the owner of Jay Publishing perished in a plane crash. That is why Jay Publishing listings stop in 1965. I would change that to team issued.

Rich

[David W]

I picked this up just because I though it was unusual. Why the 75 Phillies would feature a non Phillie player seems odd. They were loaded with stars, and just beginning their "almost dynasty". They had Carlton, Schmidt, Luzinski, all emerging. I suppose they, like about everybody else (except the MVP voters who gave Garvey the 74 MVP - BOOOOO) recognized the incredible stolen base accomplishment of 74.

[stlcardsfan]

Originally Posted by David W

I picked this up just because I though it was unusual. Why the 75 Phillies would feature a non Phillie player seems odd. They were loaded with stars, and just beginning their "almost dynasty". They had Carlton, Schmidt, Luzinski, all emerging. I suppose they, like about everybody else (except the MVP voters who gave Garvey the 74 MVP - BOOOOO) recognized the incredible stolen base accomplishment of 74.

Oh man look at the Pacer! Beautiful!!!

[David W]

1975 Stadium program, signed "To Bill". Picked it up on Ebay a while back.

[David W]

1975 SSPC. I've had the PRO graded card for years, back when grading was a new idea, and assumed all "9's" were created equal. Not that it matters, a PSA 9 is probably worth $1.99 or something anyway.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by David W

I picked this up just because I though it was unusual. Why the 75 Phillies would feature a non Phillie player seems odd. They were loaded with stars, and just beginning their "almost dynasty". They had Carlton, Schmidt, Luzinski, all emerging. I suppose they, like about everybody else (except the MVP voters who gave Garvey the 74 MVP - BOOOOO) recognized the incredible stolen base accomplishment of 74.

Very cool program. I owned one of those Pacers back in the day. Beat the heck out of that thing and could not kill it. We called it a fish bowl on wheels.