Saturday, September 4, 2010

1982 Cracker Jack and 1982 Cramer Baseball Legends


I've got cards #1 and #2 in the 1982 Cracker Jack set.  I love these.  Know why?  The borders are Cracker Jacks!  That is sheer marketing brilliance to a kid in '82.  These were commissioned from Topps for the Borden company and were made to promote the first-ever "Old Timers Baseball Classic."  There are 9 cards plus one card of the Cracker Jack box.  The players included: Doby, Feller, Whitey Ford, Al Kaline, Killebrew, Mantle, Tony Olivia, and Brooks Robinson.  The images make look familiar (as in "retro" from previous sets!).

The next card is from the 1982 Cramer Sports Productions set of "Baseball Legends." These were actually produced from 1980-1983 in a series of sets.  The whole shebang has continuous numbering, so when complete, the three-year deal appears as one set.  I think that's a pretty cool idea.  In all, there were 124 cards:

1 Babe Ruth 3.00
2 Heinie Manush .25
3 Rabbit Maranville .25
4 Earl Averill .25
5 Joe DiMaggio 2.00
6 Mickey Mantle 3.00
7 Hank Aaron 1.50
8 Stan Musial 1.25
9 Bill Terry .25
10 Sandy Koufax 1.50
11 Ernie Lombardi .25
12 Dizzy Dean .25
13 Lou Gehrig 2.00
14 Walter Alston .25
15a Jackie Robinson/
Portrait 4.00
15b Jackie Robinson/Btg 1.00
16 Jimmie Foxx .25
17 Billy Southworth .25
18 Honus Wagner .50
19 Duke Snider .25
20 Rogers Hornsby .25
21 Paul Waner .25
22 Luke Appling .25
23 Billy Herman .25
24 Lloyd Waner .25
25 Fred Hutchinson .25
26 Eddie Collins .25
27 Lefty Grove .25
28 Chuck Connors .25
29 Lefty O’Doul .25
30 Hank Greenberg .25
1981
31 Ty Cobb 2.50
32 Enos Slaughter .25
33 Ernie Banks .45
34 Christy Mathewson .35
35 Mel Ott .25
36 Pie Traynor .25
37 Clark Griffith .25
38 Mickey Cochrane .25
39 Joe Cronin .25
40 Leo Durocher .25
41 Frank Baker .25
42 Joe Tinker .25
43 John McGraw .25
44 Bill Dickey .25
45 Walter Johnson .35
46 Frankie Frisch .25
47 Casey Stengel .25
48 Willie Mays 2.00
49 Johnny Mize .25
50 Roberto Clemente 4.00
51 Burleigh Grimes .25
52 Pee Wee Reese .25
53 Bob Feller .25
54 Brooks Robinson .25
55 Sam Crawford .25
56 Robin Roberts .25
57 Warren Spahn .25
58 Joe McCarthy .25
59 Jocko Conlan .25
60 Satchel Paige .75
1982
61 Ted Williams 3.00
62 George Kelly .25
63 Gil Hodges .25
64 Jim Bottomley .25
65 Al Kaline .25
66 Harvey Kuenn .25
67 Yogi Berra .25
68 Nellie Fox .25
69 Harmon Killebrew .25
70 Edd Roush .25
71 Mordecai Brown .25
72 Gabby Hartnett .25
73 Early Wynn .25
74 Nap Lajoie .25
75 Charlie Grimm .25
76 Joe Garagiola .25
77 Ted Lyons .25
78 Mickey Vernon .25
79 Lou Bourdreau .25
80 Al Dark .25
81 Ralph Kiner .25
82 Phil Rizzuto .25
83 Stan Hack .25
84 Frank Chance .25
85 Ray Schalk .25
86 Bill McKechnie .25
87 Travis Jackson .25
88 Pete Reiser .25
89 Carl Hubbell .25
90 Roy Campanella .25
1983
91 Cy Young .25
92 Kiki Cuyler .25
93 Chief Bender .25
94 Richie Ashburn .25
95 Riggs Stephenson .25
96 Minnie Minoso .25
97 Hack Wilson .25
98 Al Lopez .25
99 Willie Keeler .25
100 Fred Lindstrom .25
101 Roger Maris .25
102 Roger Bresnahan .25
103 Monty Stratton .25
104 Goose Goslin .25
105 Earle Combs .25
106 Pepper Martin .25
107 Joe Jackson 3.00
108 George Sisler .25
109 Red Ruffing .25
110 Johnny Vander Meer .25
111 Herb Pennock .25
112 Chuck Klein .25
113 Paul Derringer .25
114 Addie Joss .25
115 Bobby Thomson .25
116 Chick Hafey .25
117 Lefty Gomez .25
118 George Kell .25
119 Al Simmons .25
120 Bob Lemon .25
121 Hoyt Wilhelm 1.00
122 Arky Vaughan 1.00
123 Frank Robinson 1.50
124 Grover Alexander 1.50
(checklist from Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, 2009)

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