Although I can't add any interesting stories of collecting these sets, I can say that I remember vividly the early 60's and eating cereal for breakfast every day. We would read the backs of the boxes while slurping up the cereal no matter what was printed or advertised on the back. When the miracle occurred and the boxes contained BASEBALL CARDS, we pored over the comments and statistics on the cards and quickly began eating 2 bowls of cereal every morning so we could finish that box and get the dull scissors out and mutilate those cards!!! We never saw the Jello boxes, but absolutely loved getting the cards from the cereal boxes. Those cards will always have a special place in my collection.
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