Saturday, August 27, 2022

Sixties Saturday - 1961 Baseball Scoops

 The Baseball Scoops set was put out by a company called Nu-card in 1961.  The set has 80 cards, but they are numbered from 401 - 480.  They don't have a team listed, so the team sets, like the Fleer sets of the same era, are pretty arbitrary.

 

These two are clearly Cubs cards as they highlight accomplishments by Cubs players.



This could be a Cubs or Giants card.  It talks about a mistake made by a Giants player, though he did it in a game against the Cubs.  The picture used on the card was from a few years after the play, when Merkle played for the Cubs, another reason to consider this a Cub card.

2 comments:

  1. The ten year old version of me would have paid big money (like a week's allowance) for that Merkle.

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  2. That is deeply weird to have a card about Merkle's boner with him in a Cubs uniform. But I suppose 1920 photos aren't easy to come by.

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