Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[BaltOrioles]

If you have plenty of patience, here's a set you can work on putting together, the 1970 Dayton Daily News set. I've been working on this set for years and years. The cards were printed in the newspaper. They were designed to be cut out by kids each day and touted as bubblegum less. There are 13 Orioles in the set and I have found the higher numbers much harder to find. I'm guessing kids got tired of cutting them out over the summer. In fact, I've never seen what the Brooks Robinson looks like.

They also reprinted a couple Orioles in 1971, #5 Frank Robinson and #34 Boog Powell, with some stat changes.

I have 9 out of 13 of the 1970 cards. I'm missing #143 Merv Rettenmund, #154 Brooks Robinson, #157 Paul Blair and #159 Mark Belanger.

1970 Dayton Daily News #1.jpg SCAN8034.jpg

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

If you have plenty of patience, here's a set you can work on putting together, the 1970 Dayton Daily News set. I've been working on this set for years and years. The cards were printed in the newspaper. They were designed to be cut out by kids each day and touted as bubblegum less. There are 13 Orioles in the set and I have found the higher numbers much harder to find. I'm guessing kids got tired of cutting them out over the summer. In fact, I've never seen what the Brooks Robinson looks like.

They also reprinted a couple Orioles in 1971, #5 Frank Robinson and #34 Boog Powell, with some stat changes.

I have 9 out of 13 of the 1970 cards. I'm missing #143 Merv Rettenmund, #154 Brooks Robinson, #157 Paul Blair and #159 Mark Belanger.

Alan,

Your examples of the Dayton Daily News seem to be in really nice shape for a newspaper cutout item. Thanks for sharing since I really didn't know what most of the Oriole examples looked like.

Here's my relatively ugly example of Brooks' DDN cutout...

1970-71 Dayton Daily News #154.jpg

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Alan,

Your examples of the Dayton Daily News seem to be in really nice shape for a newspaper cutout item. Thanks for sharing since I really didn't know what most of the Oriole examples looked like.

Here's my relatively ugly example of Brooks' DDN cutout...

Attachment 386282

Mark,

Thanks for sharing the Brooks Robinson. Ugly or not, it's the first one I've seen in all my years of collecting. It looks good to me.

[Mark70Z]

Posted for Clint (ksfarmboy)

Clint has a nice looking Memorial Stadium usher hat from back in the day.


Usher Hat.jpg


Does anyone happen to know the year of the usher hat?

[roarfrom34]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Posted for Clint (ksfarmboy)

Clint has a nice looking Memorial Stadium usher hat from back in the day.


Attachment 386299


Does anyone happen to know the year of the usher hat?

Clint & Mark:

I’ve handled a few hats of this style over the years & I’d date it to the early to mid 1980’s.

[ksfarmboy]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Clint & Mark:

I’ve handled a few hats of this style over the years & I’d date it to the early to mid 1980’s.

Thanks Bill, was never sure on a date for it.

[Mark70Z]

Day 52 (February 21, 2020 – 052)

I like the 1967 large Dexter Press Coca-Cola premiums. The cards measure 5 ½”x7” and are definitely glossy. Brooks has an All Star version as well with extended biographies on the back, but these pictured are just the regular issued cards. I never really understood why these premiums are not more popular (possibly the size?).

1967 Dexter Press Premium

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1967 Dexter Press Premium – signed

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[ksfarmboy]

I love those Dexter Press cards. Some great photos, wished they would have done them for the 1970 team.

[BaltOrioles]

I've posted a few Morton Tadder team issued B&W 8x10 photos in some earlier posts. In addition to the individual 8x10 photos, the Orioles also produced 8x10 team sheets. There were usually 4-5 per year. I have most of them from 1966-1997. I haven't seen any after 1997. These were usually distributed to newspapers, etc to use if they needed a photo for their publications. Sometimes you find them cut up into individual photos, but they weren't printed as such. The team sheets also help me to identify the year of the individual player photos, since the individual 8x10 player photos usually paralleled the team sheets.


Here are examples from 1974

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There are some individual player photos of fringe players that weren't on the team sheets. Here's an example of the 1974 Mike Reinbach.

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[cardsagain74]

All those '70s staches with the gap in the middle. No wonder there were a lot of babies made around the time I was born.....the women must have melted

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

I've posted a few Morton Tadder team issued B&W 8x10 photos in some earlier posts. In addition to the individual 8x10 photos, the Orioles also produced 8x10 team sheets. There were usually 4-5 per year. I have most of them from 1966-1997. I haven't seen any after 1997. These were usually distributed to newspapers, etc to use if they needed a photo for their publications. Sometimes you find them cut up into individual photos, but they weren't printed as such. The team sheets also help me to identify the year of the individual player photos, since the individual 8x10 player photos usually paralleled the team sheets.

Here are examples from 1974

Alan,

These are something else I didn't know even was out there or have even see before. Since you said you have most of them from 1966 through 1997 can you post them all eventually? Please...

[Fleerfan]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Day 52 (February 21, 2020 – 052)

I like the 1967 large Dexter Press Coca-Cola premiums. The cards measure 5 ½”x7” and are definitely glossy. Brooks has an All Star version as well with extended biographies on the back, but these pictured are just the regular issued cards. I never really understood why these premiums are not more popular (possibly the size?).

1967 Dexter Press Premium

Attachment 386302

1967 Dexter Press Premium – signed

Attachment 386303

I also really enjoy this set. I did a blog post about how these cards were tied into the Coke baseball bottle caps promotion (with a couple of pictures of Brooks Robinson caps):

http://fleersticker.blogspot.com/201...1967-coke.html

The photographer's grandson reached out to me after seeing the post and shared some great documentation regarding the photo shoots for this set, including the lists of players to be photographed. You can see the full story here:

http://fleersticker.blogspot.com/sea...Dexter%20Press

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by Fleerfan

I also really enjoy this set. I did a blog post about how these cards were tied into the Coke baseball bottle caps promotion (with a couple of pictures of Brooks Robinson caps):

The photographer's grandson reached out to me after seeing the post and shared some great documentation regarding the photo shoots for this set, including the lists of players to be photographed. You can see the full story here:

AWESOME read! Thanks for sharing this information related to the Dexter Press cards and how they tied in with the Coke bottle cap promotion.

So cool that so much detailed information was saved to be shared with us collectors. Makes collecting much more enjoyable to get the back story on these items and in this instance mainly from the photographer and the individuals dealing with the promotions prospective.

Keep up the GREAT work!