Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Lots of delicious cake

I did a big vintage trade with brcdad of TCDB. On my end I got mostly Hostess cards. Yum!

So many '75s I couldn't fit them all in one photo. Here's the first half, pretty standard. 

It gets more wild in the second half. Oscar Gamble has the famous Afro he also has on his famous Topps card. Decent airbrush attempts were made to cover up Bobby Murcer's Yankee hat, and to give a Yankee hat to Catfish Hunter. But the star of the lot by far is that fantastic Rusty Staub card. The artist gave Staub a Mets hat, started putting Mets pinstripes on his Expos jersey, but gave up before getting to his sleeve. Left the Expos jersey too!
Some bicentennial beauties.
A few from '77, the set I'm currently working on for the blog series. This set has not fared nearly as well as the first two in the head-to-head's with Topps.
A nice trio of '78s.
Finishing strong with '79s, including a fantastic Yankee Stadium card with Ron Guidry.
Finally, finishing off with some gum - two 1972 Topps high numbers!

 

4 comments:

  1. Wow, great stuff. At this rate, you'll catch up to me on the '75s.

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  2. Stellar 70's Hostess post! Love seeing so many all together. I'm off to find me one of those Gambles...

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  3. Airbrush the helmet, partially fix the jersey. Makes sense to me lol.

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