Food set profile: 1988 Bazooka

Next up alphabetically is Bazooka. I have cards from Bazooka sets from 1988-1990, again in the mid-1990s, and also from the early 2000s. It seems that Topps kept trying to reinvent it as a card brand. Since by the end of the run it wasn't really a food set, and because most of the sets are a bit on the bland side, I'm just going to profile the first (modern) Bazooka set, 1988. It has the best design of any of the Bazooka sets, with the minimalist border spiced up by the pack of gum with the player's name and team.

I have 12 of the 22 cards in the set. Some nice photographs in there; I think I like George Bell's the best. None of my Bazooka cards are complete, so if you have any to trade let me know and I can whip up a want list.

When Bazooka Gum was first introduced in the years after World War II, the slogan was "The Atom Bubble Gum". Atoms are small, and the smallest player that I have in the set is the 5'8" Kirby Puckett. Later on they called themselves "Young America's Favorite", and that would have been accurate for Puckett coming off a World Series win.