Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[Chstrite]

Day 340 – 5 December 2024
Today’s odd ball set is the 1966 Topps Rub Offs. This set includes 120 cards consisting of 100 players and 20 team pennants. Each card measures 2 1/16 in x 3 in. The card reflects the players headshot in color with his name, position and team. The set includes plenty of HoF’ers including Brooks. I am showing the set along with my highest graded PSA 10 Brooks card that goes with my PSA Master Set of Brooks Robinson.

[quitcrab]

That’s really nice ! Hard to find well centered.
Scott

[Chstrite]

Day 341 – 6 December 2024
Today’s odd ball set is the 1964 Wheaties Stamp. The set includes 50 players that mostly appeared in the 1963 All Star game. Some did not appear in the game while others appearing in the game are not featured in the set. Many (44) of the cards match the 1963 Topps Card. The stamps could be affixed in an album. The album included a blank slot for the stamp and a brief biography of the player. The stamp measures 2 9/16 in x 2 ¾ in. To receive the stamp you would send 50 cents with a Wheaties Box Top to General Mills. The players appear individually or on a 9 player panel. Below includes my album, envelope the album was received in, the stamp set, my PSA 9 Brooks Robinson Stamp and PSA 2 Panel.

[Chstrite]

Day 342 – 7 December 2024
Today’s odd ball set is one of my favorites. The 1964 Topps Stand Up set includes 77 player cards measuring 2 ½ in x 3 ½ in. The blank backed and unnumbered cards were the first since All Star sets of 1951 to be die-cut. Each card features a full action pose of a player set against a yellow and green background (top half yellow and bearing folding instructions; when the figure is “punched out” and stood upright). 22 of the players were single printed making them more difficult to find. Carl Yastrzemski was the most difficult to find for me. Below, I am showing you my complete set along with my highest graded PSA 9 Brooks Robinson belonging to my PSA Master Set.

Don’tforget today marks the 83d anniversary of the horrible attack on Pearl Harbor where we lost so many brave men and women.

[Chstrite]

Hi, everyone. Picked this up recently. I think it is a smaller version of a 1960s team issue photo. This one is 4.25x5.5 inches. The Orioles would make smaller versions of the larger photos. Anyone familiar or have details? When the Orioles did this, did they do it for all the photos and could there be a checklist. Talked to a couple of the smarter Orioles collectors and have some insights. Let me know. I really like this one and believe it is rare.

[Chstrite]

Day 343 – 8 December 2024
I am a huge fan of Baltimore Orioles team issued post cards and photos. A couple years ago I found the 1954 Team Issue base set 6 in X 9 in photos. This set includes 25 players. Later, I realized there was an update set that included 8 players. This set included Cal Abrams, Jim Brideweser, Bob Chakales, Clint Courtney, Jim Fridley, Ray Murray, Billy O’Dell and Eddie Waitkus. I have looked almost daily for these and always do the same at shows. Recently on Ebay, I found an auction with 21 older photos and put a bid in and forgot about it and won. I did not really look to hard until it arrived in the mail. I then realized it was from 1954. I looked at the photos with my check list and slowly realized one by one, I stumbled on the 8 player update set. I was very excited to check each one off. The best part of this discovery is I paid $8.99 plus $8.00 shipping for the 8 player update set and 13 of the 25 players in the base set. Included is a photo of the 8 player update set.

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by Chstrite

Day 343 – 8 December 2024
I am a huge fan of Baltimore Orioles team issued post cards and photos. A couple years ago I found the 1954 Team Issue base set 6 in X 9 in photos. This set includes 25 players. Later, I realized there was an update set that included 8 players. This set included Cal Abrams, Jim Brideweser, Bob Chakales, Clint Courtney, Jim Fridley, Ray Murray, Billy O’Dell and Eddie Waitkus. I have looked almost daily for these and always do the same at shows. Recently on Ebay, I found an auction with 21 older photos and put a bid in and forgot about it and won. I did not really look to hard until it arrived in the mail. I then realized it was from 1954. I looked at the photos with my check list and slowly realized one by one, I stumbled on the 8 player update set. I was very excited to check each one off. The best part of this discovery is I paid $8.99 plus $8.00 shipping for the 8 player update set and 13 of the 25 players in the base set. Included is a photo of the 8 player update set.

Charlie,

Great pickup. You got those update photos for a steal. They are extremely hard to find.

FYI - Over the years, I've seen a bunch of the original sets being offered with only 24 photos. At first, I thought they probably lost one of the photos along the way, but then I began to notice that the sets were always missing the Vic Wertz photo. Wertz was traded by the Orioles in June. I have no proof, but have wondered if the Orioles removed the Wertz photo after the trade, making the Wertz a bit harder to find. Would love to know for sure....

[Mark70Z]

Here’s my addition to the ‘64 Brooksie Stand Up.

[Chstrite]

Nice, Mark. I thought you had a PSA 10 to show.

[roarfrom34]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Here’s my addition to the ‘64 Brooksie Stand Up.

Mark

Fantastic photo...Do you know what the source of it is?

Bill