Hostess Baseball Cards

[Cliff Bowman]

I don't know how to paste it here, but a 1975 Hostess panel with the corrected Burt Hooton card sold for $361.26 on eBay recently even with light creases and light scratches. The corrected 1975 Burt Hooton and Doug Rader cards are very difficult to find, there must have been a small print run of them.

[nolemmings]

[David W]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

I don't know how to paste it here, but a 1975 Hostess panel with the corrected Burt Hooton card sold for $361.26 on eBay recently even with light creases and light scratches. The corrected 1975 Burt Hooton and Doug Rader cards are very difficult to find, there must have been a small print run of them.

One of the articles above said it was correct only on Ho Ho's, all other boxes spelled it wrong.

There are probably quite a few less of the correct spelling cards.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by David W

One of the articles above said it was correct only on Ho Ho's, all other boxes spelled it wrong.

There are probably quite a few less of the correct spelling cards.

Aha, that's why every correct Hooton that I have seen has the factory crease along the bottom, they are from the smaller box.

[bobc88]

A fairly large amount of unused/unfolded boxes seemed to have made their way into circulation; especially from 1975. Was this just extra stock? Were they poor quality rejects? 9 panels, mostly on King Dons boxes, seem to be more plentiful in this form. Anybody have any insight?

Bob C

[steve B]

King Dons were somewhat regional, going by another name in other areas. My guess is that one of the regional bakeries either changed names or backdoored a bunch of boxes. That sort of thing happened a lot back then.

I finished the Papa Ginos discs in 78 by luck. We got Pizza once a week, so I got pretty close to having the set. Towards the end we went to another restauraunt and I got nothing but extras. When I asked the staff if I could swap them they handed me the entire bucket they had at the counter and told me to take what I needed since the promotion ended in a couple days. Our local place wouldn't even swap an extra for another random card.

I also got one of the counter ads. They claimed they were all meant to be sent back to corporate, but a week after the promotion ended one was "lost" down behind the register and when I asked they let me have it.

To get it back on topic......I also picked up a few of the Hostess shelf ads later on. 77-78 I think.

Steve B

[steve B]

Anyone else notice that the Hooten/Hooton panels are cropped differently?

Steve B

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by steve B

Anyone else notice that the Hooten/Hooton panels are cropped differently?

Steve B

Good eye, you can barely see above the roof on the error card.