One of the coolest things about being a "team collector" is you're often exposed to some team issued cards you might not see often unless you live in the area.
Today's post features a book of cards and postcards featuring a dozen Oakland Athletics from the 1987 season.
I'm not sure how these were distributed, but according to the inside cover... it was "given as a Public Service in Wildfire Prevention".
This particular book was sent to me by Angus over at Dawg Day Cards back in December. I had seen the cards and postcards pop up on TCDB awhile back, but never owned any myself until now.
Inside there are twelve perforated pages. Each page contains one card and one postcard like this:
The postcards are designed to be colored with colored pencils. As a collector, I will keeping mine uncolored. Here's a peek at the back:
Each of the twelve postcards features unique illustrations. Due to lack of time, the Reggie Jackson is the only one I took the time to scan. I did however take the time to scan each of the cards and postcards.
Here's the complete set of baseball cards:
And a closer look at what the back of the cards look like:
Each of the backs have a unique Smokey the Bear cartoon illustration that comes with a public service announcement.
Here is the set of postcards:
These aren't just postcards in name, they are actual postcards intended to be mailed to people:
And rounding out this post is the back of the beary cool Smokey the Bear card from the cover of the book:
Thank you Angus! This is truly an awesome addition to my Oakland A's collection.
Everyone else... here is your question of the day:
Do you have a favorite team issue?
1983 Granny Goose Oakland A's #35
The first sets that popped into my head were the early 80's Granny Goose Oakland A's sets, but I'm pretty sure they were only released with bags of chips and not issued by the A's.
It didn't take me long to decide on the 80's Mother's Cookies SGA sets they'd pass out at games.
I've written about my brother taking me to Candlestick and the Oakland Coliseum for trading card day on several occasions. They'll always have a soft spot in my collection and I'm still actively trying to hunt down the ones I don't have.
Looking forward to reading your responses. Heck... maybe it'll inspire me to add a few more team issues (even if they aren't the A's or Padres) to my collection.
Happy Tuesday and sayonara!
17 comments:
I love the cards not being colored as it keeps them original and the fact that they are Smokey the bear. They have cards similar here but they are the local police sets. I like that Reggie Jackson card best. I used to collect postcards of baseball players and I will have to dig mine out. They did post cards of ball players for lots of teams and years. Thanks for this post as it brings back many good memories. Didn't Mothers cookies years ago do cards of PCL players??
How many forest fires have you prevented today? We'll never know, but I have to believe the number is not zero.
The Angels Smokey card series were always cool, as well as a Family Fun Center set they did in the late 70's. The FFC set was pretty drab, black and white, index card size, just unique enough to be awesome.
Very cool set! The Mets used to do baseball card giveaways in the early 1990s, plus they had a "Junior Mets" club where the membership package came with a sheet of 9 cards. I was in my 20s at the time, so I lied about being a kid when I joined the Junior Mets
Favorites of team sets are probably either the 1999 Giant Eagle Cleveland Browns set to commemorate the expansion Browns team, or the 1986 McDonald's Cleveland Browns sets with the various color tabs.
The story behind the mid-1950s Kansas City A's Rodeo Meats cards has always drawn my attention due to changes in the checklist while the cards were being distributed. Some are really tough to find, so much so that JDM/DMC missed multiple players when creating a reprint set in 1976.
Okay the Smokey Bear set is fantastic. Might need to add the Stewart card to a metacard search list a Smokey Bear card of Smoke.
Favorite team issue? Definitely the Mothers sets. Especially from the years when youn had to trade at the park to complete them.
Very cool. The photos on the cards have the A's in their 1986 uniforms except for Reggie whom I guess they rushed to get him in early in the year.
Those Smoky Bear cards are fantastic. It's a shame today's kids won't end up with such cool items.
That is a pretty cool set and also cool that I think those postcards were briefly in my home as I took Angus' packages to my post office to save him mailing out from Canada.
I say you buy a few extra postcards and color them in. I want to see some of Fuji's coloring skills!
rr - yeah, mothers cookies did make pcl cards in the early 50's. i love collecting postcards. although i don't come across too many sports related ones.
billy kingsley - it's been rainy heavily around here, so if there were any forrest fires... i'm guessing mother nature helped put them out (at least around here)
batting out of order - i have a reggie jackson smokey card from his time with the angels.
shlabotnik report - if the a's did that, i'd follow in your footsteps
angus - i wasn't familiar with that 1999 giant eagle set, but i found some on ebay. very cool. i like how you could get an album to display them. and those 1986 mcdonalds sets are awesome! absolutely love them
cardboredom - never heard of the kc a's rodeo meats cards until reading your comment. i'll have to look at the checklist and target a familiar name. thanks for sharing
nick vossbrink - these books are cheap (around $10). i actually thought about trying to get stew to sign this the next time he sets up at one of the local shows. and i'm with you on the mother's cookies cards. it's so cool that they packaged them with duplicates to encourage fans to trade with each other
bo - great detective work. never would have caught that tidbit about the 86 uniforms.
kin - you'd think that mlb franchises would want to get kids into collecting by creating trading card days at the stadium. i'd much rather have a team issue set of cards than a bobblehead
night owl - that's really awesome and generous of you to help angus out with these care packages. he sent some awesome stuff. i have at least one more post showing off the goodies
gregory - lol. if i find another book, i'll do it :D
Nice set! Are the baseball cards the standard size?
I love those postcards. Anything silly like that is so enjoyable.
I remember going to Granny Goose Day at the A's game in 1982,I think by the end of the game I had 10 sets.
jafronius - great question. they're about the same width, but are a little longer in length (close to the length of a 1956 topps card).
jeremy - yeah, they're different. shame they didn't do with when guys like mcgwire and rickey were with the team.
sg488 - that's really cool. had no idea they passed them out at games. always thought they were only distributed in bags of chips
Very cool to see, thank you. Smokey has appeared on all kinds of items over the decades; there are probably Smokey Bear collectors out there, too.
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