This is another of the Pete Rose white whale cards from my youth that I've been fortunate to since add to my collection.I think (again, maybe) it was my friend Rusty who originally clued me in to the fact that baseball cards were being included in cereal boxes. I wasn't a big cereal kid (I'm still not), and I preferred my Saturday morning cereal dry, sans milk. Anyway, Rusty had amassed a handful of these cereal cards and much to our amazement - they were in 3-D. This was pretty earth-shattering stuff to an 7-year-old.
The cards were inserted randomly into cereal boxes and I always seemed to get the Steve Kemp or the Richie Zisk cards, while Rusty was walking around with the Pete Rose and the Mike Schmidt cards. I honestly think I made myself sick one Saturday morning as I tried to finish off a box of cereal, just so my Mom would buy a new box.
I would have loved to get the Kemp one(LOL, I'm in Detroit). I didn't get anyone of note that year either, doing the same thing with cereal. Still have mine: Claudell Washington, Bob Bailor, Larry Hisle and Bruce Botche before my mom said 'enough.'
ReplyDeleteI would have bought the cereal - you didn't have to make yoursrlf sick! Next time, just tell me!
ReplyDeleteI think I was holding out for a new Star Wars guy, so I didn't want to push my luck!
ReplyDeleteYes, this would have been during my mail-away Boba Fett period. I got that in the mail the same day we saw a re-release in theatres and I got a 1980 George Foster. Funny what you remember.
ReplyDeleteYou only remember the important stuff! For example, I think I ended up with at least 4 mail-away Boba Fetts . . . you could never have too many Boba Fetts.
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