Cards from Cereal Boxes

1970 Front - none; Back - large T. Seaver; small Short, Jackson, Kaline, Banks; Laboy, McDowell, Fregosi, Clemente
1970 Front - none; Back - large - B. Robinson; small Harper, Wynn, Petrocelli, Rose;

1971

1972

1973

1974 Back - Monday, Jackson, Fisk, Palmer, Singleton, Bonds;

1975

1976

1977 Front - Madlock; Back - Luzinski, Jenkins, Garr, Kingman, R. Jones, Rivers, Fidrych;
1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1991

1992

1994

1970 

1971 FB front - none; back - large card C. Morton ; 6 small cards -;
1971 FB front - none; back - large card G. Blanda; 6 small cards - ;

One Collecting Goal for 2021 - Cereal Boxes

I picked up another box recently.  By recently I mean I ordered it a while ago and it finally arrived.  USPS is certainly having some issues.  When ebay starts their new $1.00 tracked shipping option that might not help either - .ebay Standard Envelope for Cheap Cards.

I'd like to get every box that was issued, but that will be quite a challenge.  I would settle for pictures of the boxes.  I prefer the entire box to just getting the back panel.  

If anyone has pictures please send along the fronts and the backs to my e-mail which is shown at the top of the blog - runforekelloggs@gmail.com.

Just like with Hostess, different Kellogg's products offered the cards some years.  The boxes are not all even the same size.  

I will add pictures to this post during the week ahead.

Does anyone else collect these boxes?  Is the back panel enough or do you collect the entire box?

So far I've seen the following different backs - regardless of the front.  Please pass along any additions to this list that you know about.  

I am labelling the box by a card on the back.  It could be the biggest card (1970), the card on top (1972), the card on the top left (1974) or the card in Tony's hand (1977).  

BASEBALL

1970 Tom Seaver, Brooks Robinson, Harmon Killebrew

1971 Billy Williams, Pete Rose, Bob Gibson

1972 Vida Blue, Joe Torre

1973 Billy Williams, Dick Allen

1974 Wilbur Wood, Rick Monday (card on the left)

1975

1976

1977 Mark Fidrych, Bill Madlock, Pete Rose

1978 Willie McCovey, George Brett, Frank Tanana (card on the top left)

1979 J.R. Richard, Paul Molitor  (card on the top left)

1980 Pete Rose, George Brett (card on the left)

1981

1982

1983 Robin Yount (card on the left)

FOOTBALL

1970 Dick Butkus, Len Dawson

1971 Craig Morton, George Blanda

OTHERS

1991 Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Yogi Berra, Lou Brock, Steve Carlton, Bob Gibson

1992 Tom Seaver (USA and Canada)

Why Did Kellogg's Do That?

In 1977 I'd be checking out the back of the cereal box while hurrying through some Frosted Flakes before walking the paper route and heading to the golf course to caddie.  Yes, we had to walk the route and put the paper either between the doors or in the mailbox - give the customer what they want.  

Kellogg's didn't do the best job of selecting players for us kids to see when diving in to find our 3-D card.  At no point in 1977 would I have been happy to get the six guys shown above Pete Rose.

On the box below I would have been happy to get Brett or Madlock and I would have been okay with a Ron Cey. 

When I posted about years with the least amount of players who appeared in more than one Kellogg's set, this set came to mind immediately.  As far as the other years I had no idea.  Here is what I found - of course, I could have miscounted a bit. 

Least cards depicting players who appeared in another set - 41

1974 and 1977.  Since 1977 has three more cards in its set, it has the lower percentage.

The 1981 set had the most repeaters with 57.  That doesn't surprise me since the player selection seems really good in that set.   But, the 1973 set, with 49 repeaters in a set of only 54, has the highest percentage of any year. 

I was expecting some sets to have a lot less repeaters. 

Post Offered A Bonus In the Cereal Box

The Ernie Banks card given in the box is shown to buyers through a window.  As one might notice on the box, Post included two cards inside each box.  

Since Post shows the card as part of the display, should I try to get a box for each player in the set?

Here is the checklist for this set from 2001 - Ruth, Banks, Foxx, McCovey, F. Robinson, Killebrew, Schmidt, Jackson

Canadian Cereal Boxes?

I bought this box recently without even realizing that it was a bilingual box from Canada.  I do have both versions of these cards but I forgot to consider the cereal boxes.  

Did Kellogg's change the boxes in Canada in years when there was not a different version of the cards in Canada?  Did Canadian law require the package be bilingual?  

Does anyone have other boxes from Canada? 

Post Baseball Cards

I've gotten a few Post baseball cards from the 1961 - 1963 sets.  I knew that there were some more recent Post cards.  I found out there are at least sets from 1990 - 1995, 2002 and the one above from 2001.  Are there others?

After a quick ebay search I learned that there are a variety of different boxes that contained these Post baseball cards.  Maybe I've got a new project that will be affordable and free from cracked, curled cards?

I know that I have one of these sets.  If I got to the National that will give me something to look for in the bargain bins.  

Another quick scan through ebay confirmed what I guessed - all of the sets are cheap.  The empty boxes will cost me more, but I think that they are more colorful than some of these card sets.  

Why Didn't We Do That?

I collected the Kellogg's cards as a kid.  Hardly anyone saved the cereal box, which is why they are valuable today.

The Lou Brock from the 1978 box above looks great.  Why didn't we cut the cards off the boxes?  Some of them were even actual size.  Not only that, there were plenty of the game's biggest stars as well as my favorite players. 

When looking at them together, a big difference can be noticed.  On the left above is the picture that was used.  The clouds look normal until the 3-D coating is applied as shown by the finished product on the right.  That makes me want to get these cards.  I see the actual-sized ones around but I don't see the small ones. 

What is everyone seeing out there?  Does anyone have a checklist of all of the possible cards that were shown somewhere on a box?  I am going to work on that.

Do any cards differ other than the 3-D coating?  That's another reason to get a checklist going.  Any help would be appreciated.