Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Football and cake

Won a couple of cheap '70s lots on eBay.

This '72 Topps football lot was advertised as low grade, but other than a little writing on a couple they are in good shape. Getting this lot was a good reminder of why I couldn't get that deep into vintage football cards, too many of them look boring. I needed all but the four on the right, a little trade bait. 

I love Hostess baseball cards in any condition. Won a small lot which had these cards that I needed. The biggest highlight is the rare action photo, and a terrific one of that with Chris Chambliss. Nate Colbert didn't have a proper card as a Tiger, just this and his '75 Topps cards which were airbrush jobs. Unless you count team-issued photos, the only other card of Colbert as a Tiger is a Panini, so another one with no proper Tigers logo.
There were several I had already, so available for trade, though a few have been earmarked for some OBCers. As usual I'm happy to trade the better conditioned of my cards, as I'm generally unconcerned about card condition.

 

3 comments:

  1. Nice stuff on the Hostess. Pretty sure I need that John Mayberry card, but I've just about run out of inventory to send you.

    I should like 1972 Topps football, it's very colorful, but I don't like it at all.

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  2. Nice cards. I have a bunch of 72 football but need to sort those out yet. I'm especially looking for those darn 72 high numbers.

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  3. Nice lot of Hostess. I knew that Sanguillen played for the A's, but not Torrez. Mainly remember him with the Red Sox.

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