post-war guys...your oddball items?

[ledsters]

I like these 1978 and 1979 Family Fun Centers Ozzie Smith rookies...

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by ledsters

I like these 1978 and 1979 Family Fun Centers Ozzie Smith rookies...

Those Ozzie Family Fun Center cards are really cool!

[toppcat]

I'll have to dig out some more scans but for now this is one of my favorite Topps oddball pieces, from the 1976 Cloth Prototypes:

[ALR-bishop]

Hey Dave, I think I have asked this, but do you know which version you have ?
SCD reports there are 4 different versions. I think I have them in thick felt, thin felt and silk. I have a 4th pair but can not tell if it is fact different from the others.

[JLange]

A few oddball Cleveland Indians (or naps)

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Hey Dave, I think I have asked this, but do you know which version you have ?
SCD reports there are 4 different versions. I think I have them in thick felt, thin felt and silk. I have a 4th pair but can not tell if it is fact different from the others.

Al, I believe mine is silk as it has the backing and feels essentially the same as the 77's. I have one or two of the other types and may have inadvertently sold a couple as well thinking they were all the same textures. I want to get all 4 textures at some point and it appears a supply of these is slowly enetering the market over the past few years. The thinnest one I had came from a roll that had quite a few Dyers on it and which I cut off myself around 1990 or so. It was just the Dyer felt repeated vertically and rolled up although I can't remember if there was a tube in the middle. I've at least seen all 4 types now and they can be differentiated.

[tjenkins]

Here are my favorite oddball cards which where found on the back of Nabisco Team Flakes cereal boxes in 1969. I like the way these cards look and the player selection is awesome.

1969 Nabisco Team Flakes

Hank Aaron


Willie Mays

[Exhibitman]

Some more offbeat stuff from my collection, aka The Festival of Bric-A-Brac:

Nolan Ryan team issue:



1963 World Series stadium premium:




Kellogg's cereal box panels:




I still dunno WTF this is:



Blotters:




1954 Cleveland mail order brochure:




1910 Polo Grounds info card that came with a season pass, from the collection of The Sports Collectors Bible writer and boxing HOFer Bert Sugar: