#14 on My List of Favorite Kellogg's Sets - Everything is Too Small

 When I was younger I didn't like this version of Kellogg's cards because the card size was smaller than most years.  Now I dislike it because the font on the back is too small.  I like to read the card backs, but these are getting more difficult each year for me.  Ugh, don't get old.

Those are my first thoughts about the 1980 Kellogg's set.  

Other negatives for me include the poor process of putting the cards in the packs.  Not only did the seal on the two-piece pack not work well, it also caused lots of the cards to discolor on one side of the back.  You might want to check your cards to see about this.  The left edge of the Fisk card has a bit of discoloring, but many are far worse.  

Some packs look okay, like the three below, but most that I've seen are not up to par with the other years.

This video shows how some of the packs look.  

Player selection is okay.  20 Hall of Famers.  It looks like there were 38 HOF players in the 1980 Topps sets, not counting league leaders, record breakers, etc.

I seem to see less cracks in these cards.  Maybe the smaller size helps.

There are More 2011 Topps Lineage 3-D Cards?

I am home this week.  When looking through my miscellaneous cards I found this 3-D card.  I didn't realize that it was a 2011 Lineage 3-D card until I checked out the back.

It looks like the other cards from the set, but it is missing name on the front.  

I found out that these were a special numbered parallel set called Lineagraph- numbered to 99.  The backs mimic the 1968 3-D set put out by Topps.  There are also 1 of 1 red back parallels - I wouldn't mind finding one of those, but that will never be a big deal to me.  

Time to see if these numbered to 99 are affordable.  

More Topps 3-D Cards - Topps Lineage 3-D

 I picked up a what was described as a 25-card lot on 2011 Topps Lineage 3-D cards recently.  I was quite surprised to find that there were 25 different cards - the entire set actually.  I think that I already had most of the cards, but this was a nice way to complete the set.

I do like the Topps cards that are based on the 1968 Topps 3-D set.  I will need to do more research into what other sets include some of these cards.   

I have the 2012 insert set that was a Topps Archives insert.  This is the 15-card set with Ruth, Mays, Clemente, etc.

I don't have any of the 2017 Topps Heritage inserts.  These were the ones that were inserted two per hobby box.  They started out expensive and I don't think that has changed much.   Here is the checklist for that one.

Rizzo, Harper, Posey, Correa, Kershaw, C. Seager, Ortiz, Stanton, Arietta, Donaldson, Bryant, Bumgarner, Machado, Trout, Syndergaard,  

Has anyone ever seen any of these at a decent price?  I'd like to get one, but is it possible to get one for $20?

Are there other Topps cards based on the 1968 Topps 3-D cards?

#15 on My List of Favorite Kellogg's Baseball Card Sets

 Okay, I guess this would be my least favorite set at this point - 1983.

The color scheme doesn't work great, especially when looking at a bunch of them together.

There are a few other reasons that I put this set 15th.  I don't have memories of finding them in cereal boxes because I was in college.  Second, they must have been placed in cereal boxes without a wrapper since they I haven't seen one offered in the wrapper ever.

Based on the 1982 Rookie of the Year voting, Kellogg's didn't do a good job with their selection of younger players.  Cap Ripken and Wade Boggs finished 1-3 but Kent Hrbek (2nd) is in the set.  Steve Sax won in the NL and Ryne Sandberg finished mid-pack, but runner-up Johnny Ray got into the set.  

Tony Gwynn played in 54 games and hit .289, but he didn't receive any ROY votes or a Kellogg's card.  Garry Templeton was the Padre in this set.  

Kellogg's did a good job showing colorful uniforms.  I am wondering though if a lot of the players are shown with practice jerseys.

1983 was another year without an Andre Dawson Kellogg's card.  1983's Cy Young Award winners were surprises and neither had appeared on a Kellogg's card - John Denny and Lamar Hoyt.

Is This Kid You?

 Some kids in 1975 were probably quite disappointed to pull a Jon Matlack card from a cereal box.  Why?  They probably wanted a player from their team or maybe a big star like Reggie Jackson, Rod Carew, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Steve Garvey, Tom Seaver, etc.  

No disrespect is intended toward Matlack who had a great career and four different Kellogg's cards.  He was Rookie if the Year, an all-star more than once and he shared an All-Star Game MVP award in his 13-year career.

I still need Matlack and Bench without cracks.  If you want them with a crack I can certain trade those guys, but I need some nice ones for my sets.

No, I am not trying to pump up the price on this card.  I don't have a box full of them waiting for the right time.  If 1983 Fernando Valenzuela Kellogg's cards ever get popular I'd be set for life.

Stay tuned tomorrow to see where 1975s fit in among my favorite Kellogg's sets.

Cards Shows Are the Same Everywhere?

I visited my daughter yesterday and made a stop at a card show in Green Bay.  Other than a bunch of tables that focused on Packers stuff, it was just like the shows I see around Chicago - lots of new auto/patch/relic/??? cards that I know little about.  5000-count boxes with new cards were prevalent as well.  I don't go for those either.

I didn't see many Kellogg's cards, but I did get these two, which look a lot better in person.  Sorry, I was too lazy to scan them today.

I rarely purchase graded cards, but if 1971s or 1975s look great and are affordable, I might be interested.  I have no plan to collect graded sets, but maybe someday I will change my tune.

I spent another dollar on a Dan Hampton rookie card that was quite off-center.

I went to a show today near Chicago.  I go to this site frequently, maybe five times a year.  I was surprised to see about 10 empty tables.  Most of the other tables had displays that seemed the same as the last time I was at the show.  

I spent $2 on some Sports Illustrated for Kids cards, mostly depicting track and field athletes.

I assume that there will be more shows next weekend and then after that not much for a while.

Finally Making a Dent in an Unopened Kellogg's Set

The 1976 Kellogg's set has always been one of my favorites since those came out when I was pulling them from cereal boxes before doing my paper route.  I finally made a dent in my unopened set with a purchase of the 16 cards shown below.

It also was my first significant purchase in a long time.  I found a few other things recently, so maybe things are looking up.

With that purchase, I now only need six cards for the set.  Here is the list.

When I started this set I was going with the assumption that cards 1-3 (Hargan, Washington, Gullett) could not be found in packs.  I even posted about it  (Fake 1976 Unopened Packs).  Since that time I've probably seen Gullett's available in the package about five times, Hargan maybe three times and Washington once. 

I remember the Washington auction because it was a lot of maybe 15-20 unopened packs from 1976 and there were two Washingtons.  I bid aggressively, but didn't win.  If you did win and want to trade the extra one, I now have extras of both Hargan and Gullett. 

Does anyone remember ever getting one of these cards in a cereal box in 1976?  I have no memory of that and I don't remember anyone trying to complete a set that year.