Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by ripfan008

Good afternoon Alan, I love that collection of photos. Do you have the Van Heusen Paul Blair promotional photo as well? That one has been on my want list for a long time.

No. Jim Palmer is the only Van Heusen photo I have. They don't show up very often. I did find this Paul Blair from Sears Homelife.

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[ripfan008]

I never knew that one existed, thank you for sharing it.

[carlsonjok]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

No. Jim Palmer is the only Van Heusen photo I have. They don't show up very often. I did find this Paul Blair from Sears Homelife.

Oh my goodness. I guess I need to go back and read through this thread. I have a Paul Blair player collection and had no idea this existed. I've got somewhere around 128 unique items and have identified 57 I don't have (though some of those are buybacks and cut autos, which I am not very interested in). I will add this to the list. I'm almost afraid to see what else on this thread I am going to need to add.

[BaltOrioles]

We are back home in Maine for the summer. If I don't sound too excited, we were greeted with a couple inches of snow yesterday.

One of my summer projects is to better organize and display my collection. I've been granted permission to expand my area from the room that looked so big 40 yrs ago when we moved in. Hopefully some pics before we head back to Florida in October.

There was one familiar face to welcome me home.

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In 2007, Forever Collectibles produced a 3 ft bobblehead of Brooks Robinson. Since I love bobbles anyway, I had to have his 3 footer. It's numbered 38/100, but my understanding is that there may be fewer than that and the company made only what were pre-ordered. I also have a 3 ft Cal Ripken Jr which I see sometimes, but haven't seen many other Brooks Robinsons.

[BaltOrioles]

Happy Mother's day to all the Moms in our lives. I'm thankful for my mom, my wife and my granchildren's mom. They are all special ladies.

Another special lady was my grandmother. Nana was the cook at my grammar school from grades 1-6. She would arrive at school about 5 AM each morning and cook lunches for 200-225 kids each day, all by herself. She loved children and they loved her. She hated to see food go to waste, so she had a rule that you could come back for seconds as long as you cleaned your plate. Everything back then was made from scratch. Boy were her rolls good.. When she retired, the school had to hire three cooks to replace her.

She didn't know much about baseball, except that I loved it. During my wood burning phase, I made this for her and she displayed it proudly. Miss you Nana.

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[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

We are back home in Maine for the summer. If I don't sound too excited, we were greeted with a couple inches of snow yesterday.

One of my summer projects is to better organize and display my collection. I've been granted permission to expand my area from the room that looked so big 40 yrs ago when we moved in. Hopefully some pics before we head back to Florida in October.

There was one familiar face to welcome me home.
In 2007, Forever Collectibles produced a 3 ft bobblehead of Brooks Robinson. Since I love bobbles anyway, I had to have his 3 footer. It's numbered 38/100, but my understanding is that there may be fewer than that and the company made only what were pre-ordered. I also have a 3 ft Cal Ripken Jr which I see sometimes, but haven't seen many other Brooks Robinsons.

Glad to hear you guys arrived home safely.

Hopefully now we’ll get the before and after photos. My room is always in disarray especially now trying to go through stuff. The pictures of your room that I saw looked pretty organized from what I can remember.

[ripfan008]

Good afternoon,

My mother always manages to help with my Orioles collection in the oddest ways. Pictured here is an ad from 2000 for Armour Stars hot dogs with Mike Mussina that my mother saved for me while I was away at college. I remember the two of us agreeing that it is the worst photo of Mussina ever. Moose was never one to fake interest in anything.

The mystery for me about this is that Armour released a 7-card set of players revolving around the Armour Stars brand but Mussina wasn't one of them. I've always wondered why that was. That was the winter he was in the process of signing with the Yankees, which occured on Dec. 7, 2000. This ad was in the Baltimore papers before then. None of the released cards (officially released in 2001) featured team logos however, so it couldn't have been that big of a problem.

Oh well, one of the strangest advertising pieces in my collection. Thanks Mom!

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Bill, thank you for sharing those line-up cards from Cal's first game and first plate appearance. They are both amazing.

Also thank you for sharing the Nabisco point-of-purchase piece. I know I've mentioned before that my father worked for Nabisco and neither of us have that piece in our collection.

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by carlsonjok

Oh my goodness. I guess I need to go back and read through this thread. I have a Paul Blair player collection and had no idea this existed. I've got somewhere around 128 unique items and have identified 57 I don't have (though some of those are buybacks and cut autos, which I am not very interested in). I will add this to the list. I'm almost afraid to see what else on this thread I am going to need to add.

Jeff,

Start sharing your Paul Blair items. I’m sure there are a few cool Blair items through the thread. I’m sure these guys on here could post more.

[ksfarmboy]

Great DeCinces hat Bill!

[Mark70Z]

Day 132 (May 11, 2020 – 132)

The 1968 Atlantic Oil Play Ball Game Cards were produced to be used as an instant giveaway promotion. There were specific cards that were awarded a cash prize.

1968 Atlantic Oil – Instruction back

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1968 Atlantic Oil – Contest back

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Of course, NOW I know there are variations…

[roarfrom34]

Alan....I'm sure your Nana cherished that Orioles wood burned sign you made for her!

Here is a somewhat unique Rawlings Gold Glove Gazette (Vol. 1/No. 1) from 1991...Not sure how many more came after this....Nice photos of Cal Jr., Brooks & Tony G. (who would have turned 60 over the weekend):

[BaltOrioles]

In December 1983, a lady named Grace Eng was at a local mall doing family portraits for Christmas. My Christmas present that year was a portrait of Brooks Robinson, based on his 1977 team issued postcard. I was quite surprised and pleased.

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[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Alan....I'm sure your Nana cherished that Orioles wood burned sign you made for her!

Here is a somewhat unique Rawlings Gold Glove Gazette (Vol. 1/No. 1) from 1991...Not sure how many more came after this....Nice photos of Cal Jr., Brooks & Tony G. (who would have turned 60 over the weekend):

Bill,

Nice! This is something that you posted that I "finally" already have in my collection.

[carlsonjok]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Jeff,

Start sharing your Paul Blair items. I’m sure there are a few cool Blair items through the thread. I’m sure these guys on here could post more.

I came to have a Paul Blair PC by a fairly mundane process. I grew up a Yankees fan, but had a Wilson Paul Blair model fielders glove. I had put collecting aside as a young kid, but got back into it as an adult after reading about, and reading, the 83F blog about a persons quest to get build an autographed 1983 Fleer set. I decided to dip my toes back in and build a set of Paul Blair trading cards. I figured there was about 15 to 17 cards from his playing days. A quick trip to eBay disabused me of that notion. My first acquisition was this 1999 Fleer/SI Greats auto card:



The seller was local to Oklahoma City, so I arranged to pick it up at a card show. Roger Neufeldt was also at that show, and I managed to pick up a half dozen or so Topps cards from his playing days.

I think my favorite card is this 1994 Nabisco All-Star Legends:



You may be familiar with this set as a 4 card set issued through the mail which featured Bob Gibson, Duke Snider, Frank Robinson and Jim Palmer. The Blair card was only issued in person at local card shows and is quite a bit rarer than the 4 mentioned above. I can count on one hand the number of these cards that have shown up on eBay in the last 8 years. When they do, they seem to sell for $100 or more.

I actually have three, one of which I saw amongst a lot of 9 autographed Blair cards. The listing was poorly written and didn't detail out what individual cards were in there. So, unless you actually caught a glimpse of the Nabisco card in the image, you never would have known it was up for auction. I ended up winning the entire lot for $36 delivered.

EDIT: This was part of the 1994 Nabisco set, not 1993.