Odd baseball cards

[Nails]

Thought everybody might find these interesting.  I went through my baseball cards and came across some noteworthy items.

Donruss All-Stars - 1986
These cards are 5'' x 3.5'', or twice the area of a standard baseball card.  I have no idea where I got them, but I have several, including these:





Topps Mini - 1986
Card size is 3'' x 2.25 inches.  They're a little smaller than a business card.  I have to tons of these, most of which are RBIers.  I'm too lazy to scan them all, but here's a few:







The last one of Don Sutton came from the box of twinkies or something.  I don't really remember the box, but I remember cutting it out.



7-11 Slurpee Baseball Coins - 1985
These are little hologram coins, about 1.75'' in diameter.  I have about a dozen, many of which feature three players in one (if you move the coin, the picture changes).  Here's a few:

[TempoGL]

i also had some of the Topps mini.  Additionally, there were other mini-topps that were part of a sticker album set.  i wonder if they still make that kind of stuff?  the kids today are probably too busy with yu-gi-o.

i also had some of the big ass donruss - not diamond kings, but regular cards.  they were only of good players, though.  I think it was the 1984 or 1985 set, i remember I had a dave kingman and eddie murray for sure.

[fknmclane]

Those are pretty sweet, Nails.  Nice to read a post from you again, by the way.

Keith Hernandez is so Keith Hernandez that he doesn't even need a helmet.

[Bonny]

The big ones are '86 Donruss All-Stars, should have All-Star gAme stats on the back

The little Topps are '86 League Leaders

good stuff

[broiler]

didn't they do slurpee coins other years than just 1985?

[RedBarron]

i have some jiffy pop disc cards


i have the entire 1983 Donruss ' big' stars.   I have the 85, 86, and 87 4x5 diamond king sets.

high, high quality shit.

[Bonny]

'87 Donruss Opening Day Set was one of my favorites. I dug the tray.

[RedBarron]

I have a handfull of those cards. . . .brown border, right?

I have canseco and bo, for sure.

[broiler]

i used to collect the mothers cookies cards from the giants games.  those were pretty cool.  did other teams have those?

[RedBarron]

cubs had the unocal 76 cards. . . . . i got a team set off ebay.   I think 7-11 might have done some cub cards in the late 80s.

[Baines]

'87 Donruss Opening Day Set was one of my favorites. I dug the tray.

Fkn great set of cards and full of RBI'ers.  Still have it around somewhere.


Another underrated set of cards back in the day was Topps Big.

[Nails]

The big ones are '86 Donruss All-Stars, should have All-Star gAme stats on the back

Good call, Bonny.  I was also looking through my Diamond Kings and the name must've stuck to my brain.

[Bonny]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/mlb/09/02/baseball.cards.ap/
Interesting article
Topps and Upper Deck the only card companies granted MLB license for 2006.

[RedBarron]

i long for the days of topps / fleer / donruss

[Baines]

Sportflics

[RedBarron]

Score and UD were okay, but it was about that time (88/89) that baseball cards took a marked turn down the shitter.

[Bonny]

MLB is gonna limit them to mainly guys on the active rosters, with  occasional draft picks and prospects.  Here recently a guys RC would have been the year he was drafted instead of his actual rookie season.

This year I had to go back a do some digging to find my Jeff Francoeur RCs.

[RedBarron]

good for them.  maybe now my kid can enjoy baseball cards.

[Bonny]

$1 a pack with 15 cards would be acceptable

[erhajj]

i used to collect the mothers cookies cards from the giants games.  those were pretty cool.  did other teams have those?

Yeah, I have a bunch of A's team sets of those.