Friday, May 16, 2025

Oversized 1 - Mostly postcards

 All right, here is the first post specifically about the oversized pile o' junk I picked up for .25 per item.  Today, we are showing mostly postcards....

These first four postcards are all artwork by Michael J. Taylor for Legends Sports Memorabilia.

The Musial and Jackson are from 1991 and the Erving and Bench are from 1992.  Beautiful postcards that I enjoy.  I think the Reggie might be my fave, love the grin.


And here we have four more postcards from a 1978 series called "Great Baseball Players of the Past".

This postcard series was edited by Bert Sugar, he of the perpetual unlit cigar.  I wouldn't have known he got into baseball, as he was far better known as a boxing aficionado.
It's hard not to pick the Babe Ruth as my favorite of this four.




Then we have some from random sources.  The Mattingly is by TCMA, who we all know and love from their card sets in the 70s and 80s.  The Robinson was produced by Barry Cola who also did numerous card sets.  And the two Orioles look like they are a promotion to raise money for the University of Maryland Pediatric center.  

The Mattingly is my favorite here, he looks young.  That one is from 1985.


And we finish the postcards with three more from the "Great Baseball Players of the Past" series, and a bonus Kent Hrbek caricature. 
Top honors here go to the Rogers Hornsby, I always liked his weird back leg kick pictured here.


A couple of bonuses this post...These big ol basketball stars are from the 1976/77 set.  Not a set I see a lot of.
And finally, I really only grabbed these 2 matchboxes for the oversized holders they came in, but once I looked at them, they are pretty cool!  Looks like they are both from around the WW2 times.  I'm glad I parted with quarters for them!

More to come!




8 comments:

  1. When someone is an expert on a topic, they call him a "walking encyclopedia". Burt Sugar wasn't just an encyclopedia of boxing; he was the whole library!

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  2. I like that Cal Ripken Jr "card" but those black and white pictures of players from the past are pretty cool too.

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  3. Love oversized oddballs. So much to comment on... not enough time. I'll focus on the Frank Robinson Colla card. Candlestick trapped in time from when I was a kid. Love it.

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  4. I've never known what to do with '76 Topps Basketball. I just keep them in a shoe box with other homeless odd ball stuff in my collection, likely the way kids in '76 were storing them too.

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  5. The matchbooks are super cool!! World War 2 times, my grandfather was in ww2.

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  6. I also didn't know Bert Sugar dabbled in baseball. Nice WWII matchbooks!

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