New Baseball Cards!

Here are some of my recent additions to my baseball card collection.

The first is a 1984 Topps Super card of Cal Ripken. As you can see, it's much larger than its regular sized issue.



Here are 2 cards from the 1981 Donruss set. It features Bob Lacey (or is it Lacy)? I guess Donruss wasn't quite sure and covered both possibilities! The correct spelling of his last name is Lacey.

Finally, here is a pair of variations from the 1962 set. The top cards are of Willie Tasby and the bottom cards are Bob Buhl. You can see the team logo on their hats are airbrushed out on the first photo but are present on the second one. This is because they were traded and Topps did not want to show the logo of their former team.

FANTA!!

Matchbox has issued many cars for promotional purposes.

One of my favorites was a group of 8 cars issued with Fanta labels. Fanta is an orange soda,hence all the cars were orange.

Here is a group of 5 cars.

Here are my 3 favorites, the School Bus, The Double Decker Bus and The 1957 Chevy!

Merry Christmas!

I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Safe New Year. Welcome 2010!!!

More Baseball Cards

I have many small oddball sets in my collection. Here is one I’d like to share.

This set is called the 300/400/500 Set. Here is the Title Card.

This 30 card set was issued in 1980 and has players who either had at least 300 wins, batted 400 or better or had 500 or more home runs. The cards are square and have an outline of the base paths and are numbered inside home plate. The cards are blank backed and show the player’s body in artwork done by R. G. (Bob) Laughlin with an out of proportion head photograph.

Bob Laughlin made many small card sets in the late 1960s to the early 1980s and sold them himself for around $3.00 to $5.00. Many of the sets are highly collectible today. One of his first sets, the 1967 World Series set, was mass produced by Fleer in 1970 and 1971.

Here is one of my favorite card pictures in the set, card # 23 of Frank Robinson.


The set contains my favorite player, Mickey Mantle. Here is his card, #18 in the set.

Garbage!

Matchbox has issued some garbage (or refuse) trucks over the years.

Here is the first one, first issued in 1957, the #38A Karrier Refuse Truck.



The next version came along in 1963, the #15C Dennis Refuse Truck. Shown are both variations, the one on the left has a peep hole while the one one the right does not.

Finally, from 1966 is the #7C Ford Refuse Truck. Also shown is his big brother, the K-7 in the king size range.

1979 Topps Comics

In 1979, Topps issued a set of 33 Comics which featured the current baseball stars. The set has never been very popular with collectors.

Here is a display box.

The comics were inside a wrapper with gum and sold for 5 cents. Very similar to a piece of "Bazooka" gum, which is also made by Topps. Here are a few packs.

The comics are blank backed and feature a player as well as an "Inside Baseball: tip in the lower right hand corner. Here is an uncut wrapper and comic of #20, Dave Kingman.

MOVING DAY!

Matchbox has issued a few moving trucks over the years. Here are a coup;e from my collection.

This is the #17(A) Bedford Removal Van. It has metal wheels and was first issued in 1956.

Here are two variations of the #46(B) Pickfords Removal Van, first issued in 1960. The on on the left has silver plastic wheels and the one on the right has black plastic wheels.

Here is another variation, in blue with grey plastic wheels.