Players born on this day who have Kellogg's cards are listed below.
Matty Alou (2) - 1970 and 1971 Kellogg's cards. For some reason my Little League coach called me Matty Alou a lot. At that time Alou was having some amazing years as one of the top three batters in the league. My coach must have been mistaken because leading the league for me never was mentioned in the same sentence as batting average.
Steve Carlton (9) - 1973, 1977 - 1983, 1991 Kellogg's cards. I can't see how Carlton didn't get into the early Kellogg's sets. Sure he led the league in losses twice, but he had four really strong seasons and a poor team behind him for some of those years.
Steve Garvey (6) - 1975 - 1977, 1980 - 1982 Kellogg's cards. As a Cub fan I've already mentioned Garvey enough on this blog.
Ken Landreaux (1) - 1981 Kellogg's card. He was part of the trade that sent him to the Twins and Rod Carew to the Angels.
Lonnie Smith (1) - 1983 Kellogg's card. I remember that Lonnie would get brownies from a few of his fans in Chicago when the Cardinals were in town. The girls would just drop the brownies to him from the left field bleachers.
Five players were also born on 10-26, but they only combined for eight Kellogg's cards.
As of 2014, 11-18 is the most common birthday for all major leaguers with 75 born on that day. Only 1 Kellogg's card had that birthday on the back - Steve Henderson. The lowest number born on any day (other than 02-29) is 27 born on 5-31. More on leap year in a few months.
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