Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[JollyElm]

Just saw this 1961 Brooksie card on ebay at a nice price, so I didn't hesitate to quickly jump on it...

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Talk about barely off-centered. This could be the poster child for it. Love it!!

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Just saw this 1961 Brooksie card on ebay at a nice price, so I didn't hesitate to quickly jump on it...

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Talk about barely off-centered. This could be the poster child for it. Love it!!

Looks like a great looking Brooksie card to me. Don’t think it deserves the OC at all.

[Chstrite]

Not sure if anyone has posted a Orioles Pocket Schedule collection. If so, apologies. I have collected these for a few years. I would like another version of the 1954, but here is my collection. I have many variations on the newer years. Some of these are pretty expensive and hard to find. I remember as a kid in the 1970s taking a handful of these from my uncles bar and taking them to school and selling for $0.10 and buying a pack of Topps cards on the way home from school. I am sure one of you are an expert on these, so please educate us! Enjoy.

P.S. I have a few extra if anyone is interested.

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by Chstrite

Not sure if anyone has posted a Orioles Pocket Schedule collection. If so, apologies. I have collected these for a few years. I would like another version of the 1954, but here is my collection. I have many variations on the newer years. Some of these are pretty expensive and hard to find. I remember as a kid in the 1970s taking a handful of these from my uncles bar and taking them to school and selling for $0.10 and buying a pack of Topps cards on the way home from school. I am sure one of you are an expert on these, so please educate us! Enjoy.

P.S. I have a few extra if anyone is interested.

Charlie,

That's quite a collection of pocket schedules; thanks for sharing. I don't actively collect them, but I do like them for sure.

[Mark70Z]

Day 258 (September 14, 2020 – 258)

Ok, I may be the only one to collect publications that really don’t, in the scheme of things, relate to Brooks, but have his picture, drawing, sometimes even his name “somewhere” on the cover (or sometime back cover; I know I have problems). Let’s look at two examples of those today.
Here’s a 1972 Boston Red Sox program with a couple of images of Brooks from the 1970 World Series on the cover. It’s possible the Red Sox needed help getting people to purchase their programs so they to added Brooks to get a few more sold.

1972 Boston Red Sox Official Program and Scorecard

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This is a Huggins and Scott Auctions catalog from June 17, 2004. At least this auction catalog has Brooks’ picture on the front AND back. I really would like to find the photo of the four Gold Glove winners (Brooks, Belanger, Johnson and Blair); such a cool shot.

2004 Huggins and Scott auction catalogue

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[BaltOrioles]

Topps produced a test set of puzzles in 1974. There are 12 different puzzles and they are about 5x7. The only Oriole in the set is Jim Palmer and Topps used the same photo for the puzzle that they used for the 1974 Deckle Edge set. The set contains plenty of HOFers, including Aaron, Bench, R.Jackson, Ryan, Seaver and Yaz. I have a wrapper somewhere that pictures Tom Seaver on the front.

1974 Topps Test Puzzle

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[ripfan008]

Hi Alan,

I've always liked those test puzzles. Below is an uncut version of the Jim Palmer puzzle.

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