Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[Chstrite]

Good afternoon on this cold Maryland Sunday! This week (as promised) I will provide a list of items on the 1966 slots on Brooks' master. Starting at the left is the 1966 Topps Rub-Offs. This is example is one of 11 GEM (PSA 10). The rub-off came in the Topps Wax Pack; 120 total with 23 hall of famers. Next is the Topps PSA 9 regular card of Brooks. There are 36 PSA 9s and only 1 PSA 10. This card is not cheap but a lower grade is very affordable. I had aspirations of "winning" the PSA 10 at auction but bowed out early. It ultimately sold for $27K or so plus the buyers premium. I like the 1966 Topps set but not that much! The 1966 Orioles Team card is one of 33 PSA 9s. Nothing really special. The 1966 Topps Venezuelan Orioles Team card is a mid-grade (PSA 5) with 5 graded higher. Any Venezuelan card is hard to come by let a lone a PSA 5 so I was very pleased with this affordable find. The Remaining cards are the Bazookas (some of my favorite). The complete box is not so hard to find but they are pricy. This box is a PSA 5. Finding a higher grade is difficult. There are 3 other PSA 5s and as many as 2 graded higher. There are 16 different 3 player panels in 1966. The 1966 and 1967 Bazooka Boxes with Brooks are different but when you cut them down to a panel or single hand cut card they appear to be the same (same players and same numbers on the front of the two boxes but the 1966 Box has Koufax on the back and the 1967 has Mantle). The Bazooka Panel you will notice is graded as 1966/67 because you cannot differentiate between the 66 and 67 panels once cut away from the box. This one is a PSA 9 and has two peers and highest graded. The 1966/67 Brooks hand cut individual card has four peers and highest graded. Anything Bazooka is expensive, which holds true with all of these. You will be happy to know that "no" Bazookas were damaged to satisfy my ego or PSA master rating! The 1966 Brooks Master is fairly limited. You will be excited to know that the 1967 Master for Brooks has 18 entries with a lot of variety.

[BaltOrioles]

Charlie,

More great looking items. Here's the Orioles 1966 team issued postcards and photo. They used the same photo as 1965, with slight cropping changes.

1966 Postcards

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1966 Morton Tadder 8x10 Photo

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Bonus item - For more info see post #1818

1966 The Bendix Beam Magazine featuring Brooks on the cover


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[roarfrom34]

Recently picked this ticket up & while it appears to be some sort of a phantom World Series ticket, I'm also wondering if it's some sort of an ad for The Charcoal House as well....It's printed on ticket stock although there are no perforations (October 5th would have been Game 1):





UPDATE: Just noticed the wording "This Ticket is for Laughs Only"

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Recently picked this ticket up & while it appears to be some sort of a phantom World Series ticket, I'm also wondering if it's some sort of an ad for The Charcoal House as well....It's printed on ticket stock although there are no perforations (October 5th would have been Game 1):





UPDATE: Just noticed the wording "This Ticket is for Laughs Only"

Bill,

Ha Ha... Considering the Giants finished in 5th place in 1960, I wonder how many people would have tried to get into the World Series, if the Orioles had made it that year. Has to be a very clever ad for The Charcoal House. Still interesting. I hope you didn't pay much for it.

I do have a printer's proof for the 1960 World Series. I don't think they are that hard to find.

1960 Orioles World Series Phantom Ticket Proof

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[stevelucille]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

I do have a printer's proof for the 1960 World Series. I don't think they are that hard to find.

1960 Orioles World Series Phantom Ticket Proof

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If I remember right those 1960 phantom world series tickets were given to season ticket holders as a Christmas gift the following December.

[roarfrom34]

Most Orioles fans from back in the day recall how manager Earl Weaver and groundskeeper Pat Santarone used to have competitions as to who could grow the largest tomatoes in the left field foul/out of play territory (near where the grounds crew sat).

After Earl retired both he & Pat decided to team up and market their own line of Tomato Food...I don't recall this being around for a long period of time (wish I had known of that signed ball offer):

[Chstrite]

Good morning! As promised, this week I will cover 1967. There are 17 entries on the Master for 1967. This number will grow. I will explain later. Moving top left to right you find the 1967 Dexter Press Premium and Premium All-Star. These cards were offered by Coca-Cola for each team (Cardinals did not have a set and the Angels only had one player). There was also the AL and NL All-Star 12 player sets. The cards are different on the back with additional information on the All-Star card. Both cards are high graded. The team issue as a PSA 7.5 at least 9 graded higher and the All-Star card has only two graded higher. Both are very affordable. Next, you find the Bazooka Complete Box and Panel. The Box "haunts" me daily. I am always looking to upgrade this example but they are in short supply. The Panel as a PSA 8 is the highest graded. I thought the Panel when cut away from the box like the individual card was captured as 1966/67 but that is not the case in the Master. Interestingly, their is no single hand cut card for 1967 so my guess is if a panel was sent in today to PSA it would be marked as 1966/67 because the two boxes are the same between 1966 and 1967 accept for the small picture of Koufax and Mantle on the opposite side of the box. This box and panel can be hard to find at an affordable price. One of my favorite cards for Brooks is the 1967 Topps Test Disc. There are 24 different players in this set. I am aware of only two graded by PSA. The 1967 Test Discs are only graded as Authentic. To complete the Brooks Master, though listed on the Master, you do not have to own this vintage. It is not counted in the qualitative score. I know what I paid for this card and would not part with it for 5 times the cost. I believe SGC may have graded some and I am sure others are out there ungraded. Next, you see the 1967 Topps Regular Brooks and the Venezuelan version. The regular Brooks card has 41 peers at the PSA 9 grade and their are 2 PSA 10s. Because this is a high number, this card is very rare and expensive. The 1967 Set is one of my favorite and loaded with rookies, stars and HOF'ers. There are 7 Brooks 1967 Vene's graded as a PSA 4 and only one graded higher. You can find this Vene at the PSA 1 level but the PSA 4 is very rare and will cost you. The Champs card with Brooks and Frank is the #1 card in the set so you would think it is hard to find at a nice grade, but they are plentiful. There are over 260 graded PSA 8 with another 51 at the PSA 9 and 10 level. The PSA 9s are very expensive. I recently discovered that O Pee Chee for 1967 has this card and it is on its way to PSA for grading and will be added soon (in PSA language, that might be 6 months or so). The 1967 Topps Team is depicted with that bright orange almost red tone. It is an excellent example at PSA 9. There are 65 at this grade and 6 PSA 10s. Beside the Team card is the Brooks Topps 1967 Checklist. This card is plentiful but very expensive. I guess many kids back in the day marked the cards for to track who they owned (shameful!). I am always tempted to upgrade this card but the price never seems right. There are over 75 graded as PSA 7 and another 119 at the PSA 8-10 grade, so someday I will upgrade. Next, in the middle you will see the 1967/68 Coca-Cola bottle caps with Brooks. The bottle caps are a new addition to the master. I could go on and on about the bottle caps. Here is what I have learned and my information and knowledge routinely changes. There are several different bottle caps; there is the Coca-Cola version (King Size and Caremel), Fanta (Grape, Orange and Root Beer), Sprite (Sprite also has a regular size and King Size), Fresca and Tab. Technically, there is two types of Coca-Cola (King Size and Caramel) but PSA grades them as the same vintage. You can then find the Team Cap (further marked as O10) and All Star Caps (A21 for AL and #3 for MLB). The The 1968 Team Version does not have the player's position to the right of the face, which I will show next week. Overall, it is my estimate that there could be as many as 36 different bottle caps between 1967-1968 for Brooks. Ok...back to what is displayed, today I am showing (top to bottom, left to right) Sprite O10 Team (PSA 5, highest graded), Fresca O10 Team (PSA 4, highest graded), Coca-Cola #3 MLB AS (PSA 5, highest graded), A21 Tab AL AS (PSA 3, one graded higher), Coca-Cola A21 AL AS (PSA 7, highest graded, highest graded), and Coca-Cola O10 Team (PSA 4, tied as highest graded). I have as many as 15 other bottle caps at PSA for grading (a mixture of Sprite, Tab, Orange, Grape, Root Beer and Coca-Cola). Finally, the final item is the 1967 Topps Pin Up. This Pin Up is graded as a PSA 7 and these are not easily found in a higher grade. There are 6 graded higher. There is the O Pee Chee version that is debated as a 1967 or 1968 issue, which I will show you next week with 19 other items. I hope this week's update was not too long. See you next week.