MSA Disc Cards

[David W]

I found the MSA Customized, cup lid, and probably Red Barn Restaurant (both versions) to be the toughest.

Saga was a little tougher as I recall, but with Ebay, they all are attainable, and for not a lot of money.

[darkhorse9]

Your biggest challenge will be the 1978 Wiffle Ball discs. These are the ones printed on the sides of the boxes.

About 20 of the cards were printed on a sleeve that attached a single ball to the end of a plastic bat. Because of that format the cards all come with a huge factory crease since they were folded in an octagon shape.

After almost 40 years of searching I still have not been able to identify the full checklist of the 88 players advertised. I can only confirm about 82 of them

[Exhibitman]

My modest Aaron holdings:




Got all six in one lot. I kind of lose interest in stuff like this once the front variations are accounted for so I will probably only keep two of them.

[mrmopar]

For me, and in particular Garvey as a subject, the MSA Customized "Ad" back was by far the hardest to find. I have duplicates of all but that one. One seller seemed to have an endless supply of Red Barn discs, which really made that one easy. The newer Saga disc was also tougher than the earlier one (it's the one that looks like the Tastee Freeze front, not the more common baseball seam design. I guess I was lucky with the wax lid too…I probably saw a half dozen of those offered up in a relatively short time, although they are seldom seen now.

Originally Posted by David W

I found the MSA Customized, cup lid, and probably Red Barn Restaurant (both versions) to be the toughest.

Saga was a little tougher as I recall, but with Ebay, they all are attainable, and for not a lot of money.

[darkhorse9]

Here's a picture from the interwebs that shows the MSA wiffle disc I'm talking about.



As I said, they don't exist in mint and some of them may not exist at all.

[bsuttonosu]

Agree with dark horse on the difficulty of the whiffle package discs.

Does a checklist exist of those found on the bat package? I collect George Brett and don't believe he was available on the whiffle bat but have never seen a definitive checklist.

[darkhorse9]

Players only appear on a single version of packaging. Brett can only be found on a softball box. There are Junior sized, regulation size, softball size and bat/ball sleeves.

[bsuttonosu]

Thanks darkhorse. Appreciate the info. I have the softball box version of Brett so I guess I'm good.

[darkhorse9]

Here's a checklist as to how the 1978 Wiffle Ball cards were issued. As I mentioned there were four formats, Junior Sized, regulation Sized, Softball sized and Bat/Ball sleeve.

To date I have only confirmed 81 cards. The boxes indicate there are 88 players. That means there are seven unknown. There has to be both one box and one sleeve I don't know about. That's the only way to make up the "missing seven"




1978 Disc Format
Sal Bando Softball
Buddy Bell Regulation
Johnny Bench Bat/Ball
Vida Blue Regulation
Bert Blyleven Regulation
George Brett Softball
Lou Brock Regulation
Bill Buckner Bat/Ball
Ray Burris Softball
Jeff Burroughs Softball
Campy Campaneris Junior
John Candelaria Softball
Jose Cardenal Regulation
Rod Carew Bat/Ball
Dave Cash Softball
Cesar Cedeno Softball
Ron Cey Bat/Ball
Chris Chambliss Bat/Ball
Dave Concepcion Regulation
Dennis Eckersley Bat/Ball
Mark Fidrych Junior
Rollie Fingers Bat/Ball
Carlton Fisk Regulation
George Foster Bat/Ball
Wayne Garland Regulation
Ralph Garr Regulation
Steve Garvey Regulation
Don Gullett Bat/Ball
Larry Hisle Regulation
Catfish Hunter Softball
Reggie Jackson Bat/Ball
Von Joshua Regulation
Dave Kingman Junior
Jerry Koosman Softball
Ron LeFlore Softball
Sixto Lezcano Regulation
Davey Lopes Junior
Greg Luzinski Regulation
Fred Lynn Regulation
Garry Maddox Regulation
Jon Matlack Regulation
Gary Matthews Softball
Lee May Regulation
John Mayberry Regulation
Bake McBride Bat/Ball
Tug McGraw Bat/Ball
Hal McRae Bat/Ball
Andy Messersmith Bat/Ball
Randy Moffitt Regulation
John Montefusco Regulation
Joe Morgan Bat/Ball
Thurman Munson Regulation
Graig Nettles Regulation
Bill North Softball
Al Oliver Bat/Ball
Jorge Orta Regulation
Jim Palmer Bat/Ball
Dave Parker Regulation
Tony Perez Regulation
Gaylord Perry Bat/Ball
Jim Rice Regulation
Aurelio Rodriquez Regulation
Pete Rose Regulation
Joe Rudi Regulation
Nolan Ryan Bat/Ball
Manny Sanguillen Regulation
Mike Schmidt Regulation
Tom Seaver Regulation
Ted Simmons Regulation
Jim Spencer Regulation
Willie Stargell Regulation
Rennie Stennett Junior
Frank Tanana Regulation
Gene Tenace Regulation
Luis Tiant Softball
Manny Trillo Regulation
Bob Watson Softball
Carl Yastrzemski Bat/Ball
Richie Zisk Regulation
Butch Wynegar Softball

[Gmrson]

Originally Posted by David W

I found the MSA Customized, cup lid, and probably Red Barn Restaurant (both versions) to be the toughest.

Saga was a little tougher as I recall, but with Ebay, they all are attainable, and for not a lot of money.

We had a Wisconsin dealer that used to set up at a few of the Detroit area shows in the 1980s that would have some Red Barn discs mixed in their $1 box. I never knew the version without the address existed. When I collected Brooks Robinson, the Saga and Red Barn were the last for me to track down.

[mrmopar]

I finally checked and I don't have any Garvey Red Barn discs that aren't from Kenosha. I may have passed on a non-location copy because i was unaware.

Originally Posted by Gmrson

We had a Wisconsin dealer that used to set up at a few of the Detroit area shows in the 1980s that would have some Red Barn discs mixed in their $1 box. I never knew the version without the address existed. When I collected Brooks Robinson, the Saga and Red Barn were the last for me to track down.