Baseball cards are weird

[westofyou]

Who else remembers the Ralston Purina cards? I think I ate about a thousand boxes of Cookie Crisp one year trying to collect these.

Wait.... they were in cereal boxes too?

[cumberlandreds]

Who else remembers the Ralston Purina cards? I think I ate about a thousand boxes of Cookie Crisp one year trying to collect these.

I do. I was dumb enough to buy set at some card show one time. I'm sure they were happy to be shed of that set,

[bob jones]

How about the Post serial cards

[BluegrassRedleg]

You guys like the Topps "Lineage" cards they put out recently? They used the template for the 1975 set we were talking about earlier on these...

[Dom Heffner]

You guys like the Topps "Lineage" cards they put out recently? They used the template for the 1975 set we were talking about earlier on these...

The Joe Morgan card in that set has him in an Astros uniform.

Very strange.

[savafan]

Who else remembers the Ralston Purina cards? I think I ate about a thousand boxes of Cookie Crisp one year trying to collect these.

I have that card! I collected a ton of Nolan Ryan, Rickey Henderson, and Manny Trillo cards. Trillo was a personal favorite player of mine (hence the avatar).

[savafan]

You guys like the Topps "Lineage" cards they put out recently? They used the template for the 1975 set we were talking about earlier on these...

I haven't seen these, but that's a gorgeous card! This thread is making me want to rush out and buy a few packs.

[savafan]

Here are some of my other favorite cards:











I actually have quite a nice size collection of minor league cards of many star players. Not sure of the value, or market for these cards, but I love them.

[savafan]

This is pretty cool.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/topp...aseball-cards/

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the movie Major League, Topps will produce commemorative versions of its 1989 cards featuring the fictional Cleveland Indians.

[RichRed]

In the '70s, you could cut three extremely high quality cards off the back of a box of Twinkies. These were the ones I had:

[bounty37h]

I always loved the design of the '83 Topps set, with the large action shot and the round, inset portrait.

Me too! My aunt painted a large version on canvas of Johnny Bench's 83 Topps card and I wore it as my Halloween costume that year.

[bounty37h]

This is pretty cool.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/topp...aseball-cards/

IK hope to get those when they come out. I have the Durham Bulls team set that also included cards for Crash Davis back in the 80's.

[RichRed]

Wait.... they were in cereal boxes too?

Now that's just disgusting. The Purina Dog Chow tasted much better.

[cumberlandreds]

In the '70s, you could cut three extremely high quality cards off the back of a box of Twinkies. These were the ones I had:

I believe I had that same trio.

[Johnny Footstool]

Me too! My aunt painted a large version on canvas of Johnny Bench's 83 Topps card and I wore it as my Halloween costume that year.

That is one of the coolest things I have ever heard.