March Pickups

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by TheBig6

1952 Wheaties metal trays, not cards but thought they would be appreciated posted here.

Love the odd ball stuff and these are great pieces. Just had to see them again...

Also, as others have mentioned the Musial is very nice; I like the other two, but the Musial is classic.

[brian1961]

Jerry, I should have mentioned this in my initial thread to you. I really like your use of the small easels to display them. Great idea.

I do know for a fact that the Jackie Robinson tray uses a beautiful photograph by the legendary Ozzie Sweet, SPORT magazine's best photographer for many years.

Thanks for enlightening us about how the trays were offered by Wheaties. Wow. That's the key for these as conversation pieces. I hope the stock boy was extra careful when he unpacked the cases and set the boxes with the trays on the grocery store shelf. Can you say, inherent condition sensitivity?

---Brian Powell

[jason.1969]

92 down, 8 to go for my Top 100 Display. Have really developed a liking for this 1939 Play Ball set. Along with Big Poison below, have relied on the same set for Arky Vaughan, Joe DiMaggio, and Bill Dickey.

The odd shape is a relic of the photo...expecting card to be much more rectangular when it arrives.

Waner_1939 _PB.jpg