Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[Mark70Z]

Day 313 (November 8, 2020 – 313)

I believe all of these items have been posted before, but this is what I have for today...

In 1992 Crown put out the All Time Baltimore Orioles Action Stand Ups in three sets. Today I’ve pictured a 1992 Crown gas pump display sign advertising Set 1, which was available now, of the All Time Action Stand Ups. Personally, the cards are a bit plain looking with the white background, but I do like the advertising sign. They have a puffy Brooks attached to the sign to attract you to go ahead and get the set.

1992 Crown gas pump advertising sign

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1992 Crown All Time Orioles Action Stand Ups – Set 1, Set 2, and Set 3

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[roarfrom34]

Here is another signed book (published 2006) by Tom Adelman "Black & Blue" which chronicled the 1966 World Series..As an aside when Palmer signed it he mentioned that this was his wife's favorite book:

[Mark70Z]

Day 314 (November 9, 2020 – 314)

The Orioles had a good season in 1968 finishing 91-71 for a second-place finish behind the Detroit Tigers who went on to win the World Series. Hank Bauer was the manager of the Orioles but was replaced right after the All-Star break by Earl Weaver.

Who needs a ticket to an Oriole game in 1968 when you have a pass.

1968 Baltimore Orioles Season Pass

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I personally like the look of the 1968 Topps cards and while I’m not a big fan of the team cards I think the Orioles team card in ‘68 looks pretty good.

1968 Topps Orioles Team #334

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I didn’t even know about the Venezuelan cards when I was younger and even when I first started to collect Brooks, I was unaware of their existence. Sometime along the line I saw them and of course had to try to acquire the Brooks examples.

1968 Topps Venezuelan #20

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End today with two 1968 Oriole picture pennants.

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[roarfrom34]

I wish there had been Rawlings promotional/advisory photos with Cal Ripken Jr. (as they had done with Brooks, Boog, Mantle, etc.)..

One of my more unique Ripken related Rawlings pieces is this workbook from 1996 which was sent to coaches & AD's for them to order bats, gloves, etc.:

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

I wish there had been Rawlings promotional/advisory photos with Cal Ripken Jr. (as they had done with Brooks, Boog, Mantle, etc.)..

One of my more unique Ripken related Rawlings pieces is this workbook from 1996 which was sent to coaches & AD's for them to order bats, gloves, etc.:

Is that a baseball added three times in different (odd) positions on the left side? The shadows are an exact match, so I assume they are not 'three-punch holes' in the workbook.

[roarfrom34]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Is that a baseball added three times in different (odd) positions on the left side? The shadows are an exact match, so I assume they are not 'three-punch holes' in the workbook.

they actually are three-punch holes lol

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

I wish there had been Rawlings promotional/advisory photos with Cal Ripken Jr. (as they had done with Brooks, Boog, Mantle, etc.)..

One of my more unique Ripken related Rawlings pieces is this workbook from 1996 which was sent to coaches & AD's for them to order bats, gloves, etc.:

Bill,

A very cool piece. It remined me of the many catalogs I received as a high school baseball coach. Here's another catalog from Baseball Express that featured Cal on the cover in 1996.


1996 Baseball Express Catalog

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[Mark70Z]

Day 315 (November 10, 2020 – 315)

I remember when I was in school, we used to cover all our books (maybe we were required to, who knows). I wanted, or I thought needed, Orioles book covers even though I usually just got the paper grocery bag type covers. Occasionally I was able to talk my mom into an Oriole book cover which were like the one pictured below. Man, she was so good at covering books.

1969 Baltimore Orioles book cover

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I wasn’t much of a Nabisco Team Flakes cereal fan (the four-grain energy cereal), but I didn’t know at the time that the cereal boxes had cards (mini-posters) on the back of the box to cut out. The 1969 Team Flakes consisted of 24 cards in three series of eight cards. As you can see, they didn’t pay any MLB royalties, so no insignias are shown on the cards. The photos on the Nabisco cards are the same that were used on the 1968 Sports Illustrated Posters.

1969 Nabisco Team Flakes

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[quitcrab]

That book cover is pretty cool ! Never seen it before . Really beats the brown grocery bag hand made book cover used in our house growing up. Scott

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Day 315 (November 10, 2020 – 315)


I wasn’t much of a Nabisco Team Flakes cereal fan (the four-grain energy cereal), but I didn’t know at the time that the cereal boxes had cards (mini-posters) on the back of the box to cut out. The 1969 Team Flakes consisted of 24 cards in three series of eight cards. As you can see, they didn’t pay any MLB royalties, so no insignias are shown on the cards. The photos on the Nabisco cards are the same that were used on the 1968 Sports Illustrated Posters.

1969 Nabisco Team Flakes

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Mark,

That's a very nice looking Nabisco card. I wasn't a big Team Flakes fan either.

Frank Robinson is the other Oriole in the set. Frank comes in two variations, narrow yellow border and wide yellow border. I've been looking for years, but think the Brooks Robinson card was only printed with a narrow border.

1969 Nabisco Frank Robinson variations

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[roarfrom34]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Day 315 (November 10, 2020 – 315)

I remember when I was in school, we used to cover all our books (maybe we were required to, who knows). I wanted, or I thought needed, Orioles book covers even though I usually just got the paper grocery bag type covers. Occasionally I was able to talk my mom into an Oriole book cover which were like the one pictured below. Man, she was so good at covering books.

1969 Baltimore Orioles book cover

I have a few of these should anyone be interested:

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Day 314 (November 9, 2020 – 314)

The Orioles had a good season in 1968 finishing 91-71 for a second-place finish behind the Detroit Tigers who went on to win the World Series. Hank Bauer was the manager of the Orioles but was replaced right after the All-Star break by Earl Weaver.


I didn’t even know about the Venezuelan cards when I was younger and even when I first started to collect Brooks, I was unaware of their existence. Sometime along the line I saw them and of course had to try to acquire the Brooks examples.

1968 Topps Venezuelan #20

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Mark,

That's a pretty nice looking Venezuelan card of Brooks. We are lucky that most of the Venezuelan sets contain at least one Brooks Robinson card.


I'm slowly working on the 1968 set, but haven't found the Brooks card, at the price point and condition, I want to pull the trigger on yet.

I have picked up the Brooks Robinson All-Star and Orioles team card.

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