70s Saturday - 1976 Shakey's Pizza Cubs

The 1976 Shakey's set wasn't a national set.  It was produced by the Washington State Sports Collectors Association in 1976 and sponsored by five local Seattle area Shakey's.  Cards were given away or sold at Association shows.

You can see on the back that the sponsoring restaurants are listed.  I wonder if one of the owners was a collector?

The cards were the standard size and the set was made up of 158 Hall of Famers and Baseball's Greatest Players.  Nine Cubs were included.  King Kelly is listed on the back as a Cub (they were actually the White Stockings when he played) though the card shows him in a Boston uniform.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recapping the 2021 T206 Cubs

 With the final wave of the set now in hand, let's take a look at all the Cubs cards from the 2021 version of T206.

There are a total of seventeen Cubs cards in the 500-card set.

 

 

 

Six are retired players, included two players that also had cards in the original T206 set.  Here's a good one --- the George Browne card is his first non-reprint card in 110 years. He was last included in the 1911 Turkey Red set.  

 

Two Cubs prospects were included

 

 

Four of the seventeen are now ex-Cubs.

 

 

That leaves these five as the only players still on the roster.

The Final Wave of Cubs from 2021 T206

 The final wave of 2021 T206 has rolled in.  There were two Cubs out of the 50 cards.

 

Two Hall of Famers!  

I may be stretching it a bit, but Zach Davies would be mentioned some where is the Hall of Fame for being the starting pitcher when he and three additional relievers no-hit the Dodgers on June 24.

Tomorrow I have a recap of the Cubs in the complete T206 set.

Carousel Complete!

 I've finally knocked off my last two remaining sets of the 1976 MSA disc sets, the Carousel Snack bar set.

I've been looking for the Jerry Morales disc for over a year with no luck.  An Ebay seller had an auction for 110 Carousel discs.  The listing didn't have pictures of all the discs nor did it have a complete listing.  But with 110 of them I figured there was a good chance that Morales was included.  I emailed and asked two questions - did the lot include Morales and would you consider selling it separately.

The answer to both questions was yes.  I paid, the seller shipped, and I have the set wrapped up.

Carousel was one of ten different MSA disc sets from 1976 and I now have nine of the ten set completed. The only one left is the Crane Potato Chip set.  I need the Andy Thornton disc.  That one too, I've never seen.  Thornton has discs with both the Cubs and Expos.  The Montreal disc is fairly easy to get.  The Cubs one, not so much.

Another Conlon All-Star Set with the Same Mistake

 You'd expect the Smithsonian Institution would have better fact-checking.

Remember the Conlon 1933 All-Star set that I showed several days ago?  It commemorated the 50th anniversary of the first All-Star game.  It also has cards of players that weren't on the All-Star team and left out actual members of the team.

In 1988 Wide World Sports issued their version of the set.  Unfortunately, they used the same same 48 major league players as the original set. That means they made the same mistake.

The design of the cards is a bit different than the 1983 set. The cards are standard size and have less information in the upper right hand corner.

1988 Sporting News Conlon Collection

 Wild World Sports cranked out the final three Conlon series in 1988.  Each set was just 30 cards instead of the 60 in each of the first two series.  The card design was the same with the exception of a new logo added to the bottom left corner.

There are just four Cubs card among the 90 in series three, four, and five.  Can you name the four?

 

 

You are correct if you named...

.... Charley Grimm, Babe Herman, Charley Root, and Riggs Stephenson.

Five Random Cubs Cards

  I've got 19,735 Cubs cards from 300 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past several decades.

1900s - 1970s: 1952 Topps #164 Walt Dubiel

1980s: 1988 Topps #336 Ed Lynch Lynch was out of baseball in 1988.  He returned to the Cubs in 1994 as the general manager.  Among his worst free-agent signings was that of....

1990s: 1997 Finest #274 Mel Rojas  Rojas was definitely not a Finest acquisition.  Ed Lynch signed him for over $13 million for three years.  Rojas didn't even make it through the entire 1997 season.  He and his 0-4 record with an ERA of 4.42 were shipped to the Mets in early August.

2000s: 2000 Topps Combos #6 Ernie Banks  What a shame to Mr. Cub, a real people-person, on the same card as a self-absorbed steroid user.

2010s: 2013 Season Ticket Holders #28 Greg Maddux This card was printed on tickets for the game on May 31 - 31st for #31.