Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[Chstrite]

Day 3 – 3 January 2024

The 1962 Post Cereal set includes 200 different players. Brooks appeared on Canadian Panel, which I have never seen, but aways looking! Not sure one exists. I do have the highest graded Canadian hand cut card. Brooks appeared on an 8 Ounce Alpha Bits box and a 8.5 Ounce Crispy Critter Box. The Alpha Bits box has the word “all” in the black box. The Crispy Critter box does not include the word “all.” The back side of the boxes are different as well. Also, I have a complete unassembled Crispy Critter Box. I am tempted to assemble it; it would make an excellent display. For some reason, PSA believes Brooks appears on a 3 panel cereal box, but he does not. Someone convinced PSA otherwise so I was able to find a damaged panel and had the 3 panel version graded. The single hand cut card is also displayed.

[Mark70Z]

Great looking items Charlie. Those are some tough items to come by. I really like the perforated O’s panel. Do you think they’ll encase this someday? Seems like PSA continues to encapsulate in bigger slabs and hopefully you’ll be able to have that one done as well.

[Chstrite]

Mark, I hope so but it would be a big slab. I actually have 2. One is a nice display in a frame and then this one ready for grading!

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by Chstrite

Mark, I hope so but it would be a big slab. I actually have 2. One is a nice display in a frame and then this one ready for grading!

TWO; send me one (gratis...). I'll be nice and let you choose which one.

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by Chstrite

Day 3 – 3 January 2024

The 1962 Post Cereal set includes 200 different players. Brooks appeared on Canadian Panel, which I have never seen, but aways looking! Not sure one exists. I do have the highest graded Canadian hand cut card. Brooks appeared on an 8 Ounce Alpha Bits box and a 8.5 Ounce Crispy Critter Box. The Alpha Bits box has the word “all” in the black box. The Crispy Critter box does not include the word “all.” The back side of the boxes are different as well. Also, I have a complete unassembled Crispy Critter Box. I am tempted to assemble it; it would make an excellent display. For some reason, PSA believes Brooks appears on a 3 panel cereal box, but he does not. Someone convinced PSA otherwise so I was able to find a damaged panel and had the 3 panel version graded. The single hand cut card is also displayed.

Charlie,

Very nice panels. There are two variations of the 1962 Post Cereal Brooks Robinson. I can't tell for sure from your pictures, but is one version on each of the two different boxes? If not, does that mean Brooks appeared on another unknown box.

Here are the two variations I'm referencing ...

1962 Post Cereal #1.JPG

[Chstrite]

Alan, my understanding is he only appeared on the boxes I referenced. I am familiar with your variations and believe I have them. Too many variations to collect within Post sets. Thanks for sharing.

[Chstrite]

Day 4 – 4 January 2024

The 1963 set includes 200 different players, too. Brooks appeared on a Bran Flakes box with a purple background. The Bran Flakes panel was very difficult to find. He also appeared on a blue Oat Flakes box. This box is not as hard to find. I have an extra graded version if anyone is interested. Also, I have included the single hand cut card.

[quitcrab]

What is the difference in the two cards Alan posted ?

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by quitcrab

What is the difference in the two cards Alan posted ?

The photos are cropped differently. Check out the lower left.

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by Chstrite

Alan, my understanding is he only appeared on the boxes I referenced. I imagine the variations had something to do with when the boxes were printed. I am familiar with your variations and believe I have them. Too many variations to collect within Post sets. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting. I haven't done any real research of the Post sets, but my understanding from what I have read was the variations were a result of being printed on different products. I hadn't heard that there was multiple printings. Either way, the Post cereal and Jello sets can be very challenging, even for a team collector. Almost all of my Post Orioles have variations of some sort.

I'm still looking for decent looking 1962 Jello cards of Marv Breeding and Hoyt Wilhelm.

[Chstrite]

Day 5 – 5 January 2024
Today I am featuring the 1975 Hostess Box, Panels and single card. This box included Twinkies. This set includes 150 different players. The box makes a nice display. The panels are not easy to grade. My PSA 8 is the 3rd one I have graded. The single card is also included and grades easily. Not sure why the condition on the panels is so difficult.

[Chstrite]

Day 6 – 6 January 2024
Hostess included Brooks Robinson on the 1976 Hostess box. This box included a Suzy Q. This set included 150 different players. It makes a wonderful display and is my favorite Hostess card. Also included today is the 3 player panel and the single card.

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by Chstrite

Day 6 – 6 January 2024
Hostess included Brooks Robinson on the 1976 Hostess box. This box included a Suzy Q. This set included 150 different players. It makes a wonderful display and is my favorite Hostess card. Also included today is the 3 player panel and the single card.

Charlie,

I loved collecting the Hostess cards. I'm sure the grocery store didn't appreciate me going through all the boxes, looking for the cards I needed. I ate a lot of Hostess product in high school. My mom would freeze all the extras for the winter.

I didn't realize at the time that there are cropping variations depending on the product. I also wasn't smart enough to keep the boxes or keep track of which cards came on which products. I do remember I hated the boxes that had the L shaped panels.

It looks like you have both of the Brooks Robinson variations (amount of pants showing at the bottom). I also have the cards that came on the individual Twinkies packages, but they all have the normal product stains.

I also have a 1976 proof panel of Brooks with the brown printing on back (see post #2003).

1976 Twinkies Orioles

1976 Hostess Twinkies.jpg

[Chstrite]

Day 3 January 2024 (correction):

The 1962 post on Brooks Post Cereal had some errors on my comments about Panels. I also received a question about variations. Here is some additional information to clarify things with pictures. The 1962 Post Cereal set includes 200 different players. Brooks appeared on Canadian Panel, which I have never seen, but aways looking! Not sure one exists. I do have the highest graded Canadian hand cut card. Brooks appeard on four (4) different boxes in 1962. Below you will see the two different versions of the Post Toasties Corn Flakes panel with and without the Spout. The two Post Toasties boxes differ with the black box section (one includes the word “all” and the other does not). The boxes are different on the back, too (one is dark and the other lighter). Also, I have a complete unassembled Post Toasties Box with spout. I am tempted to assemble it; it would make an excellent display. Brooks also appears on an Alphabet Box and a Crispy Critters box. The Alphabets box has the word “all” and the Crispy Critters box does not have the word “all.” For some reason, PSA believes Brooks appears on a 3 panel cereal box, but he does not (as far as I know). Someone convinced PSA otherwise so I was able to find a damaged panel and had the 3 panel version graded. The single hand cut graded card is also displayed. The four different hand cut cards are provided and marked below them.i believe Ken Marks will discuss some of this and provide more detail on the “variations.”

[Chstrite]

Day 7 – 7 January 2024
Kellogg’s published multiple sets in the 1970s but Brooks only appeared on the 1970 and 1975 sets. The 1970 set included 48 players. The 1975 set included 57 players. Brooks collectors will be happy to know he appeared on the actual 1970 Cereal Box. The cards (ungraded) are sensitive given their age and materials used. The two individual cards and cereal box are provided in this post.

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by Chstrite

Day 5 – 5 January 2024

Today I am featuring the 1975 Hostess Box, Panels and single card. This box included Twinkies. This set includes 150 different players. The box makes a nice display. The panels are not easy to grade. My PSA 8 is the 3rd one I have graded. The single card is also included and grades easily. Not sure why the condition on the panels is so difficult.

I loved Twinkies (still "like" them). I used to have a ton of the boxes when I was young, but they are long gone.

This proof is slightly different; where's "The Big Bopper"?!?

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

Charlie,

Very nice panels. There are two variations of the 1962 Post Cereal Brooks Robinson. I can't tell for sure from your pictures, but is one version on each of the two different boxes? If not, does that mean Brooks appeared on another unknown box.

Here are the two variations I'm referencing ...

Attachment 603898

Alan,

Is the photo the only variation between the two?

[Kenmarks]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

Charlie,

Very nice panels. There are two variations of the 1962 Post Cereal Brooks Robinson. I can't tell for sure from your pictures, but is one version on each of the two different boxes? If not, does that mean Brooks appeared on another unknown box.

Here are the two variations I'm referencing ...

Attachment 603898

I think Charlie either showed or talked about the panels that Brooks Robinson appeared on in the 1962 post baseball promotion. He was on four different cereal panels. Alphabets 8 ounce. Crispy critters 8 ounce. Post Toasties 12 ounce regular box. Post Toasties spout box. Charlie showed pictures of the two different Post Toasties boxes. And if you’re a master set Collector of the 1962 Post Cereal, you’re looking for over 500 cards, four of which are different Brooks Robinsons. Each of the different Brooks Robinson cards has distinguishable differences from the other three cards that are tied to which cereal box it came from.

Post Cereal during production, used the same panel for the alphabets and the crispy critter boxes. Similarly, they used the same panel on both variations of the different post toasties boxes. There are no cropping differences in the picture between the alphabets/Crispy critter Cards. Similarly there are no differences the two different Post Toasties box cards. There are cropping differences between the two sets of cards. The CC/AB have more of the batting hand, and more of the patch, showing at the bottom of the cards, than the PT cards. There are other differences also. While, it’s not the best way to differentiate variations, sometimes you have to use color. Probably the easiest way to tell an AB card from a CC card is looking at the yellow statistical area background. CC Cards have that color as goldish. For AB Cards that color more light yellow. In Robinson‘s case the brim of his hat is orange on the CC cards and red on the AB cards. There are other differences also.

For PT Cards it’s much more simple. Turning the card over the regular box is brown colored cardboard, and the spout box is white colored cardboard.

A master set is a pretty big challenge and not a lot of people probably care about this. But there are a handful of collectors that pursue this. And in every case they have the four Brooks Robinson‘s variations. The collectors that I know who have these master sets include Dave Worley, Dan Mabey, Gevelt Meyer, Kelvin Soldat, Tim Wheatley, Fred McKie, and Bob Marquette.

I’ll try to post a picture but I don’t keep pictures on my computer so it is something that’s very challenging for me.