Four Mascot Dog Food Baseball Cards Come to Market! Inc. Yogi Berra Iconic Pose!

[Chris-Counts]

Sometimes I wish I could have been born a couple decades earlier just so I could have collected all the early 1950s regional sets in real time. To me, that era seems like the Golden Age of baseball cards. The biggest mystery to me about this set is: why in the world was Spec Torporcer included?

[Republicaninmass]

Slow release...wise

[chuckw]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

Sometimes I wish I could have been born a couple decades earlier just so I could have collected all the early 1950s regional sets in real time. To me, that era seems like the Golden Age of baseball cards. The biggest mystery to me about this set is: why in the world was Spec Torporcer included?

Back when I was researching the Mascot Dog Food company a few years ago, I remember coming across a story of a few of the players investing in the Mascot Dog Food company - and I believe Spec Torporcer and Bucky Harris were involved. Spec ended up going blind in both eyes - He went blind in his second eye in the early 1950s when he was managing in Buffalo Bisons, which was around the same time of the Dog Food card production. Spec was pretty well known in his day. In 1944, Toporcer wrote an autobiography, "Baseball – From Backlots to Big Leagues", still considered one of the best manuals of instruction for coaches and young players. His life story was featured in a network TV show in which he played the lead.

[chuckw]

The auction ends this weekend - here are the current bid amounts of the 4 super rare Mascot Cards:
Yogi Berra (4th known example of this card) - $2000
Bucky Harris (2nd known example of this card) - $425
Don Newcombe (3rd known example in existence) - $425
Gil Hodges (3rd know example of this card) - $850

link to bid:
https://www.wheatlandauctionservices.com/catalog.aspx

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by chuckw

The auction ends this weekend - here are the current bid amounts of the 4 super rare Mascot Cards:
Yogi Berra (4th known example of this card) - $2000
Bucky Harris (2nd known example of this card) - $425
Don Newcombe (3rd known example in existence) - $425
Gil Hodges (3rd know example of this card) - $850

link to bid:
https://www.wheatlandauctionservices.com/catalog.aspx

Cool looking cards and very interesting history

[whiteymet]

Here is another card to add to the rarified list of these Mascot Dog Food Cards

An autographed Robin Roberts.