I'm Balticfox and here's my story!

[boysblue]

I appreciate the effort you are putting into this thread. Some cool pictures and some great memories.

[Balticfox]

And I still have lots more to say!

The 1962 Canadian Post Cereal Baseball cards are among my very favourite card sets of all time. Here's a copy of the ad that was included in the comic sections of Saturday newspapers in the spring of 1962 to advertise these cards which I've framed and hung on the wall of my collectibles den:



A large part of the reason why I like this set so much is because of the memories I have of eating box after box of Sugar Crisp as a kid in 1962 trying to complete a set of these Post Baseball cards. For whatever reason Canadian Sugar Crisp boxes (unlike the boxes of other Post cereals) had a cellophane covering in 1962. Here is a picture of part of the cellophane that was wrapped around Canadian Sugar Crisp boxes later in 1962 advertising the CFL cards included:

(Not mine.)

Don't ask me why Post treated Sugar Crisp differently in 1962, but six card panels were inserted between the foil bag containing the Sugar Crisp cereal and the inside of the box. But after four or five boxes I was perturbed to be getting doubles since only eight different panels could be had within Sugar Crisp. I did eventually realize that a set couldn't be completed from Sugar Crisp alone.

I've been pecking away at the set since 1980 or so but it's gone slowly since there are multiple short prints and I'm very picky when it comes to whiteness as well as cut. Here are scans of some from my collection:









The two biggest stars I'm still missing are Tommy Davis and Hoyt Wilhelm. Not surprising but they were only found on the backs of Grape Nuts which no self respecting kid wanted back in the day.

I also have three of the intact panels that were inserted inside the Sugar Crisp boxes:







The other five Canadian Sugar Crisp panels are high on my Baseball Want List with the one containing Willie Mays being my highest priority:

(No longer mine.)

That's because I traded a Willie Mays panel off eighteen months ago to a Post collecting buddy in Pennsylvania who made me a very decent offer of the Ernie Banks panel, a couple of other shortprints and a small wad of cash for it.

I've also begun pecking away at the 1962 U.S. set which features the very same pictures of the players but has a completely different design:



Here are some of the TV commercials that ran for the 1961 and 1962 Post Baseball cards:

Post Baseball Card Commercials

I really like the Post Cereal cards because they take me back to the days when we kids collected just for the fun of it. There was no thought of "values"; just the sheer joy of getting something really cool such as pictures of baseball or football players "Free Inside!"

[MBH65]

What a great story, thank you for sharing!