As baseball card collectors of a certain age know, Topps used to include various premiums in every pack of cards. I’m talking about the mid-60s to mid 70s, I’m guessing, although a Google search shows that the company has been revisiting past successes by offering some of these things again.
One year it could be a card meant as part of a deck for playing versions of fantasy baseball games, the next it could be a mini-poster or a coin. I put all of these way in a plastic shoe box and somehow when I moved out of my mother’s house way back when, they were lost along the way (not gonna blame mom for throwing them out).
Some examples:
You get the idea.
I can only imagine how much they might be worth today. Then again, seeing as how the nostalgia market has bottomed out, they might only be of sentimental value.
But what I’m really posting about today are these:
Going back again to the mid-1960s, Coke featured plastic liners of ballplayers in their bottle caps. I’m just guessing that other cities with ML teams had the same promotion.
I can recall stopping in at the local kosher deli on Nostrand Avenue in the Crown Heights section Brooklyn — a short walk from where Ebbets Field once stood — where the kindly owner would let me sift through the discarded caps he kept in a bag behind the counter. Those were the days.
Zipping ahead fifty-plus years: A frequent customer at the store where I work recently lost her husband and he evidently had a treasure trove of cards and collectibles like these. On her behalf, I wonder if anyone out there can tell me how much these bottle caps might be worth?
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