Saturday, August 31, 2024

Eighties Alphabetically - Jays


Last week I had a set from a Canadian potato chip company that I'd never heard of.  Today's cards are from another potato chip company.  And this one is very familiar to anyone who grew up in the Chicago area, Jays.

Everyone I knew ate Jay's potato chips.  The similarly named Lay's were a distant second.  Oddly, the Jay's name came about because of Pearl Harbor.  The company was founded by Leonard Japp and the chips had his name on them, Japps.  That was not a good name for a company after December 7, 1941, and they soon rebranded themselves as Jay's.

Their lone baseball issue as a 20-disc set that featured players from the Cubs, White Sox, and Brewers, as those were the teams in the Jay's market.  The discs were made by our usual disc maker, MSA, and were logoless.

There are seven Cubs in the set.

 









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