It Had to Be Lou...1977 Burger King #23 Lou Piniella

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by steve B

Oh, and the 1980 Mrs Butterworth cards were Topps cards in a special pack with a header card.

I haven't seen enough of them out of the pack and provable to know if there are any differences. I had a bunch of packs at one point.

No difference on any of the 1980 cards (there were other companies as well) which came in those type of packs. The only difference is the cover card

[homerunderby]

Interesting wrinkle on the Steinbrenner controversy. I read that Steinbrenner had a fit because Piniella was his son's favorite player, though George liked him a lot too. His son, Hank, is the Yankees CEO now.

I'll have to check when I get home but Yankees yearbooks in 1977-78 might have a list of BK stores in NY metro.

In 1978 BK also produced a nice Yankees poster with drawings of each players headshot. They were give-aways like the cards, quite a few are still around.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Ryan- This hardly news because I'm sure you have it but the 1985 Hostess Braves set was done by Topps.

[ALBB]

talking about Steinbrenner back then, I recall a 80s90s Yankee yearbook in which they messed up the color process..causing George M's face to look terribly red.. Somebody got fired for that ! LOL

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by ALBB

talking about Steinbrenner back then, I recall a 80s90s Yankee yearbook in which they messed up the color process..causing George M's face to look terribly red.. Somebody got fired for that ! LOL

It was either 1980 or 1981 according to google and my memory will go with 1981

Rich

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

It was either 1980 or 1981 according to google and my memory will go with 1981

Rich

1981 has got to be it, I have multiple copies of the 1980 YB and George's image is fine in all of them.

[gzman]

Whatever year it was, the reason he was ticked off was because it appeared he was wearing lipstick...the team had to go back and reprint them!

[TheNightmanCometh]

Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

Ryan- This hardly news because I'm sure you have it but the 1985 Hostess Braves set was done by Topps.

I do have it, but I’m always on the look out for something new and off-beat. Thanks for the comment