Kellogg's Glaring Omission

[orioles70]

Originally Posted by G1911

It’s contractual, in both cases.

I would also assume it may have to do with money, contracts, etc. but I have never read that anywhere so I can't say for sure. Are you assuming that as well or do you have particular knowledge you can share?

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[G1911]

Originally Posted by orioles70

I would also assume it may have to do with money, contracts, etc. but I have never read that anywhere so I can't say for sure. Are you assuming that as well or do you have particular knowledge you can share?

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Well, there’s no documentation left by a contract that never existed. Do you really think it plausible that Kellogg’s got Aaron signed and then just chose to snub him and not issue a card? The answer is pretty clear here.

[mrmopar]

It is interesting what players ended up in the Kellogg's sets, especially considering how small they were in comparison to other sets of the time (Topps and then Hostess).

Hostess sets were quite a bit larger, but there are still some pretty good head scratchers too. In a 150 card set, they would have needed to include at least 5 players per team to be even. Maybe they did in some cases, maybe not. It did feel like certain players were excluded, but I guess they couldn't be in all sets, could they? I have never looked closely, but I wonder if anyone made all of the Hostess sets?

I know Garvey was absent from the 1978 set, but included in the other 4 years.

Same facebook customs for the missing Hostess.

[orioles70]

Originally Posted by G1911

Well, there’s no documentation left by a contract that never existed. Do you really think it plausible that Kellogg’s got Aaron signed and then just chose to snub him and not issue a card? The answer is pretty clear here.

I respectfully disagree that the answer is clear in this case.

I do agree with your premise that it is not plausible to think Kellogg's would intentionally snub him and not include him in the set after getting him to sign a contract.

However, I have no knowledge Aaron was ever contacted regarding his inclusion in Kellogg's sets or tendered a contract to turn down in any of those 7 years from 1970-1976. Do you?

We can assume all we want about money being the motivating factor in regards to Aaron's exclusion from the sets (and it may be) but without any evidence or knowledge of Kellogg's intention to include him in the set it remains just that...an assumption.

At this point it remains no different than the assumption Kellogg's may never have intended to include him at all and never contacted him.

I just happen to think it is interesting and I am simply curious why Aaron was not included in such a high profile set as Kellogg's for so many years when I can think of several other national sets in which he was included during this same era; 1970 Milton Bradley, 1970 Transogram, 1971 Dell Stamps, 1971 Milk Duds, 1971 Mattel Instant Replay, 1975 and 1976 Hostess, 1976 Isaly Disc, etc.

I met Aaron many years ago at a card show...wish I had thought about it then...I would have asked him.

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