Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[Mark70Z]

Day 199 (July 17, 2020 – 199)

The All-Star cards have made an absence for five long years and are re-introduced in the 1968 Topps set. Brooks and Frank were the Orioles in the ’68 AS set; the Brooks card as follows:

1968 Topps All-Star #365

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The backs of the All-Star cards formed two player photos: Orlando Cepeda on the National League cards and Carl Yastrzemski on the American League.

Day 199 b 1968 Topps AS #365 back.jpg

There were also the All-Star cards included for the Venezuela issue in 1968.

1968 Venezuelan All-Star #365

Day 199 c 1968 Topps Venezuelan AS #365.jpg
Day 199 d 1968 Topps Venezuelan AS #365 back.jpg

I only have one progressive proof for the 1968 Topps AS #365 pictured below.

Day 199 e 1968 Topps AS Progressive Proof.jpg

AND here’s the 1968 transparency used for the photo on the Topps All Star card.

Day 199 f 1968 Topps AS transparency.jpg

[roarfrom34]

Mark...cool transparency & progressive proof!

Here are the two versions of the Ripken Thom McAn discs I mentioned in that 1993 article. The blue disc I obtained early on and for awhile thought that was the only version.

Interesting story was at some point I was introduced to a collector who informed me about the Ripken yellow version and was trying to obtain the entire set himself (with all color variations) who traveled often on business. What he did was simply buy one pair of Thom McAn shoes and in his travels and he would exchange that pair of shoes at one of their stores (wherever his travels took him) for another and get two new discs.

He promised me that if he ever gave up trying to complete the set that he'd sell the yellow Cal Jr. to me. Fortunately (for me anyways), he gave up on trying to complete it:



As I mentioned in the article as well these discs can be differentiated from the Subway discs in that these have the Thom McAn/Jox logo on the back.