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Thursday, January 5, 2023

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

 I keep going back and forth on #6 and #7.  I went with 1978 for #6.  I was busy with sports and I lost touch with my trading group so I didn't see extra cards often that year. 

I did find time to go to the most amazing card shop on Archer Avenue in Chicago - the Sports Collector's Store.  It was run by a few of the biggest names in card collecting.  For those of you who are older, you probably know who they are.  I still see at least one of them around at the big shows.

What I didn't see there, or at least notice, was Kellogg's cards.  Of course I never looked for new cards there.  I probably only purchased cards from 1969 and earlier when I went there.

Back to the 1978s.  I remember getting three Steve Carlton cards in one box of Frosted Flakes that year.  That would be great if I weren't a fan of the Cubs.  



I don't see as many 1978s cracked as I do other years, but there are still a lot of them.  I have a nice collection of cracked Mike Schmidt cards from 1978.  I could use some better ones.  Even one of my unopened Schmidt cards has problems - it is cut short on the right as compared to the card shown below it.  


I do like the card backs - lots of text and stats.  


My first unopened splurge was on 1978 Kellogg's cards.  I bought the entire set in the wrappers and I think that the Schmidt was normal.  With my luck, it is probably cracked too.

I bought another small lot of unopened cards and the card below was one of the first ones I opened since my childhood.  I certainly knew him from card collecting, but when the Cubs and White Sox had night games I always watched the Cubs.  "For all you youngsters out there" (thanks Steve Stone), the Cubs only played National League teams from 1946 - 1996 and before 1946 they only played AL teams in the World Series. 



I like the player selection in 1978 as compared to 1977.  It was a nice step back up to their normal solid checklist.


The Sutter card is one of my favorites.

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  1. Mark ZentkovichJanuary 5, 2023 at 9:42 PM

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  2. night owlJanuary 5, 2023 at 9:45 PM

    '78 is in the middle of the trifecta of Kellogg's sets that my two brothers and I ordered from the cereal box and then split them up between us when they arrived, the others being '77 and '79. I love '78 for that reason. It's also very unlike most of the other sets, especially at that point and I like it for that reason too.

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  3. RunForeKelloggsJanuary 6, 2023 at 4:23 AM

    It would be great to hear about how that split went. Did someone pick a card just to then trade it? Did each of you get the guys on your favorite teams?

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  4. FujiJanuary 7, 2023 at 7:59 AM

    As a kid, I would have been so confused if that Sutter landed in my hands. I was so used to seeing him with that fluffy beard... and him wearing a Cardinals or Braves uniform. But that Cubs card sure does look good.

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  5. RunForeKelloggsJanuary 7, 2023 at 8:11 AM

    Another sad reminder of my age because the cards of Sutter with a beard look odd to me, especially in a Braves uniform.

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