1953 Glendale Meats (F-151) Prize Album

[JRumierz]

Wish to clarify the status of the seldom seen "Glendale Album" which pictures all 28 of the individual Tiger cards. Often referred to a promotional or salesman's item it's actually the (consolation) prize in the card return contest.
On the back of the card you're told to collect and return as many of the cards as you can. Three first prizes (World Series tickets) were to be awarded. The next 150 submissions were awarded the "valuable prize". Basically the album was returned but the submitted cards weren't. A neighbor kid, who paid the ladies on his paper route 1c per Glendale, submitted 86 (or 68) hoping to score WS tickets. I was standing there when he opened the envelope got the album instead of the tickets. Disgusted that he didn't win and had lost all his cards, he immediately sold it to me for a nickel. (See scan Wright's page )
Underneath the card front on a player's page is printed the back text-- 9 nine of the cards have status update : Friend, Houtteman and Wright traded to Cleveland; Erickson sold St.Paul, Sullivan to Little Rock, Foytack, Jordan, Madison, Carswell to Buffalo. It's possible that the booklet exists w/o the updates. Never heard who (if anyone) got the WS tickets.