Not all baseball cards are rectangular. Today I am posting up scans of nine discs from my collection.
1981 MSA Mini Discs #28 Mike Schmidt (Also known as "Peter Pan" discs, these were issued by MSA and look like many of their previously issued food discs although these are smaller.)
1989 King B Discs #10 Nolan Ryan (These discs, also produced by MSA, came one per container of King B beef jerky.)
1993 Cadaco Discs #16 Andre Dawson (This disc came from a Cadaco All-Star Baseball game.)
1993 MSA Ben's Super Pitchers Discs #4 Greg Maddux (Ben's Bakery has been in business since 1907 and caters to Atlantic Canadians. This disc came in a loaf of bread.)
2003 Fleer Hardball Round Numbers Game Used #MS Mike Schmidt Jsy (This entire set produced by Fleer is designed after the discs of the 1980s including the inserts and memorabilia cards. My weightlifting partner would often pick up a pack or two of cards for me at his local Irving convenience store and we would go through them over the course of our lift. This baby blue jersey swatch from Mike Schmidt came from one of those packs.)
2003 Upper Deck Standing O Die Cuts #54 Derek Jeter (This is a die cut insert that parallels the base set produced by Upper Deck. I believe they were inserted one per pack.)
2013 Hometown Heroes Sport Discs #6 Derek Jeter (Utilizing 3-D technology which is
extremely hard to scan, this Panini insert from the Hometown Heroes set really does depict Derek Jeter.)
2013 Panini Cooperstown Colgan's Chips #127 Nolan Ryan (Panini designed these discs in homage to the 1909-11 Colgan's Chips "Stars of the Diamond" set that was originally distributed over a three-year period in five-cent Colgan’s Mint and Violet Chips gum.)
2016 Topps Heritage Discs #67TDCMT Mike Trout (I've been diligently scanning cards from my collection and posting them on this thread for 16 months now and this is Mike Trout's first appearance. Oddly it is on a square disc card. Mimicking the discs from 1967, I pulled this from a free bonus pack that the leader of my online trading group included with one of our trades. I was standing in the kitchen and when I pulled the wrapper open, this one immediately fell to the floor. The lower right corner has the smallest ding not noticeable in this scan.)
Last year I read
The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams on the recommendation of DrMitchJ. It was more than 800 pages but I learned a lot about Ted Williams as a person and not just as a ballplayer. Man, was he surly. He came across as a narcissistic jerk to the press and many of his own admirers but then again he would sneak into children's hospitals and spent hours with sick children and slip out unnoticed, discreetly paying their entire medical expenses in the process. His son, who I actually met on one occasion related here in an earlier post on this thread, was a bit of a jerk too and took full advantage of Ted in his later years all in an effort to pad his own inheritance. All that set aside, "The Splendid Splinter" was Boston's baseball hero and self-proclaimed greatest hitter who ever lived. A two-time MVP, two-time Triple Crown winner and six-time Batting Champion, Ted finished his career with a .344 batting average and 521 home runs even though he lost several prime years to military duty. I've got 383 Beckett recognized cards of Ted in my collection and I've already posted up scans of a lot of my vintage Ted cards but I went through my collection and here are nine more.
1958 Topps #321 Sluggers Supreme/Ted Kluszewski/Ted Williams (Ted shares this card with fellow slugger, Cincy's Ted Kluszewski.)
1958 Topps #485 Ted Williams AS
1959 Fleer Ted Williams #70 T.Williams/J.Thorpe (Here his is pictured with the great athlete Jim Thorpe.)
1959 Fleer Ted Williams #75 Williams' Value to Sox (Here he's pictured with Hall of Famers Eddie Collins and Babe Ruth.)
1959 Fleer Ted Williams #79 Where Ted Stands (He's in Bangor, Maine standing next to Paul Bunyan. Bunyan is a legend here in Maine due to our lumbering history. There is a huge statue of Paul Bunyan in Bangor that you can find photos of online. My brother, a friend and I sat on Paul's foot one night watching a parade of blue lights on Main Street until the police came and questioned us until they were convinced that we had no clue what was going on and were just watching.)
1961 Nu-Card Scoops #439 Ted Williams/(Hits .406)
1970 Topps #211 Ted Williams MG UER
1971 Topps #380 Ted Williams MG (The next year Ted became the first manager in Texas Rangers history.)
2005 Zenith Epix Purple Moment #20 Ted Williams
I think one of the most common and consistent inserts throughout the years, or at least since the early 60s, has been stickers. They are meant to be affixed to different surfaces but of course they remain more valuable if they are kept intact. I've got tons of stickers in my collection and today I am showing you nine of them.
1983 O-Pee-Chee Stickers #3 Willie Mays FOIL (These stickers were manufactured by Panini in Modena, Italy and were released under the O-Pee-Chee name out of London, Ontario and were only sold across Canada. They were originally released in packs of six with 100 packs per box and were meant to be stuck in a sticker album that featured Reggie Jackson on the cover. O-Pee-Chee was a Canadian candy company founded in 1911 and was eventually sold to Nestle in 1996. This set mirrors the American version released by Topps and this Mays is one of only four foil stickers in the set and the back is printed in both English and French.)
1983 Topps Stickers #328 Ryne Sandberg (This Sandberg rookie year sticker was also made by Panini and produced for Topps and O-Pee-Chee. This is a Topps sticker.)
1985 Fleer Star Stickers #37 Don Mattingly (This is from a 126 sticker set produced by Fleer and meant to be affixed into a Fleer sticker album.)
1987 Hostess Stickers #28 Jose Canseco (The 1987 Hostess Sticker set consists of 30 stickers produced in Canada by Hostess Potato Chips and distributed in bags of potato chips. Each sticker was loosely wrapped in cellophane to protect against potato chip stains.)
1987 Red Foley Sticker Book #118 Cal Ripken (Arthur "Red" Foley was a sportswriter who began his career as an official MLB scorer in 1966.
Red Foley's Best Baseball Book Ever was published by Simon and Schuster and included 130 stickers, puzzles, quizzes, and other trivia features.)
1989 HOF Sticker Book #54 Roy Campanella (This set of 100 stickers honored members of baseball Hall of Fame.)
1989 Panini Stickers #111 Randy Johnson (Probably the most sought after sticker in this 480 sticker set is this rookie of Randy Johnson. Stickers were meant to be affixed into an album featuring Jose Canseco on the cover.)
1990 Publications International Stickers #584 Cal Ripken Jr. (This set was produced by Publications International and contained 648 stickers bound in a book. The set was licensed by Major League Baseball and the MLBPA. The stickers were to be put into the album over a question which pertains to each player pictured as a clue for where the sticker went.)
2004 Bazooka 4 on 1 Sticker #2 Duncan/Jeter/A.Soriano/Giambi (This is an insert from Topps' Bazooka set and includes four mini stickers of then current Yankees.)
