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Neat box! Always loved those panels and boxes. The Post Cereal backstory probably warrants further investigation though. The team name was announced in November 1960, and Post Cereal had enough of a presence in Minnesota to know the name-selection rumors beforehand rather than relying on some guy. Also, if they thought they were going to be called the Minneapolis Senators, why not print that on the cards, rather than just Minneapolis?
Seems more likely the cards were printed before late November--several players had changes made to show a new team on the updated, perforated versions, and those trades seemed to occur in December, 1960. Finally, I do not believe they ever corrected the boxes, instead they allowed orders of complete team sheets that showed the updates. And yes, Bob Allison was a real favorite in Minnesota too! He wore no. 4, and my aunt thought he was the most handsome player to ever don a Twins uniform. The rest of us were just glad he could hit. Flashed some real leather in the '65 series too, as noted by Vin Scully: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUQCLfttnxE
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And Joe Garagiola's call
Here's Garagiola's NBC radio call of that play that I combined with the color film version:
http://vendiamo.com/X/s/Allison.wmv |
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Nobody else has a 1961 Post Cereal Box with Cards?
Anyone? Bueller?
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Had a nice '62 & '63 box, always wanted a '61
Here's the '63 to help put this thread to the top of the page |
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Wow, that's a beauty! Thanks, Jay.
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As for complete boxes, there are many collectors on this website who specialize in Post Cereal and Jell-o cards, and they have extensive collections of boxes and panels. Unfortunately for me, my collection is pretty weak in that stuff. I expect that many of those advanced collectors will chime in, and show some of the amazing stuff that they have. |
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Not mine, but -
Here is one of the rarest Post Cereal boxes from the 1962 set. That is probably of more interest to Post Cereal Master set collectors than the regular Post Cereal collector.
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Also not mine, but -
This is probably the rarest box from the 1962 Post Cereal Football set. I don't own it, but I'm happy to say the owner is a friend of mine. This is thought to be a one of one, the only one in existence.
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A couple of plugs
One of the leading collectors of Post Cereal cards is net 54 baseball member Ken Marks. In collaboration with Dan Mabey, he wrote a book on 1962 Post Cereal Football cards. It features numerous pictures of complete boxes and uncut panels from that set. It is some amazing stuff. The name of the book is "Goalposts". I believe it is available on Amazon.
Also, there is a free website that features anything you might have wanted to know about 1962 Post Cereal Football, complete with s lot of great pictures. The website is postcerealfootball.com. Last edited by cannonballsun; 07-29-2021 at 08:27 AM. Reason: Addition to message |
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Why do you say that? Apparently, the relative rarity of the grape-nuts boxes is due to that cereal's unpopularity among kids at the time. I actually liked it, but they were hard to eat, you really had to let them soak in the milk for a while.
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Those cards were printed on several different boxes. Therefore, the cards are not rare and very easy to find. However, the actual cards that were printed on the 10 ounce Grape Nuts box are very rare and very hard to find. Master set collectors, with the help of Dan Mabey's book on the 1962 Post Cereal set, can tell which box a card actually came from.
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