76 Hostess proofs

[steve B]

I've seen some of these listed different places with the right colors, but not this yellow/green version. I have 9 of them, about half of the batch I found when I was in High school.

there are lots of other differences, the colors on the Fingers are really wrong, and the batch had a few reversed negatives. The pictures are also a bit more coarse than the issued versions.

The ones I have are
Briggs
Fingers
Jenkins
Rice
Rivers
Yaz
Palmer
Parker
Wynn

I know there's a Luzinski out there somewhere, but I forget which players the others were.
One of my big mistakes starting out collecting. I swapped a McCovey Wasington 74 Topps for the bunch of them and promptly swapped about half to a dealr for another McCovey.

Does anyone else here have any? It would be interesting to see where they ended up. Since I've never seen any others it's likely any out there were from the batch I found.

Steve B

[mybestbretts]

I have never seen those before,how neat. Thank you for sharing

sandy

[bcbgcbrcb]

Steve:

I have an uncut sheet of 1975 Hostess Twinkies proofs (complete set) if you are interested in buying it. My e-mail is: vguerrerobb@yahoo.com

Thanks,

Phil

[Rickyy]

Steve,

I really like those color variations...never seen those!

I have only one my 1976 Tom Murphy #153. I've been looking for others from 1977, 1978 and 1979 but so far no luck. Huggins and Scott just had some on uncut sheets. I recall seeing a loose one or two back in the late 80's at a card show but never picked it up and wished I did...



Ricky Y

[David W]

Originally Posted by Rickyy

Steve,

I really like those color variations...never seen those!

I have only one my 1976 Tom Murphy #153. I've been looking for others from 1977, 1978 and 1979 but so far no luck. Huggins and Scott just had some on uncut sheets. I recall seeing a loose one or two back in the late 80's at a card show but never picked it up and wished I did...



Ricky Y

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Sports-Mem-C...hostess+proofs

[Rickyy]

Originally Posted by David W

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Sports-Mem-C...hostess+proofs

Those on ebay are cool progressive proofs of regularly issued cards. The Randolph one is an unissued one..not issued with the regular set. My Tom Murphy is the same thing....not part of the regular set from 1976.

Ricky Y