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Montreal trained at Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona, FL during the 1970s, so I assume that's what we see behind Ross. The park's Wikipedia page claims Brooklyn moved their spring training home to Daytona in 1947 after Jacksonville denied the Dodgers permission to play a 1946 pre-season game with Robinson on their AAA roster. (The team moved further south in 1948, building Dodgertown in Vero Beach.)
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1979 marked the last vintage Hostess set published on their snack cake boxes and contained 50 three-card panels (for 150 players total), six of which are single-printed and listed below. (Thanks to the Super70s set checklist for the details.)
- 28 Ron Cey*
- 29 J.R. Richard*
- 30 Greg Luzinski*
- 31 Ed Ott*
- 32 Dennis Martinez*
- 33 Darrell Evans*
- 73 Rick Dempsey*
- 74 Vida Blue*
- 75 Phil Garner*
- 76 Rick Manning*
- 77 Mark Fidrych*
- 78 Mario Guerrero*
- 79 Bob Stinson*
- 80 Al Oliver*
- 81 Doug Flynn*
Value: Hostess cards often show up like Mr. Grimsley, with odd edges left by young scissors, and even snack stains. They rarely cost more than a dollar or two.
Fakes / reprints: Haven't seen any in the marketplace.
2 comments:
It would be nice to see Hostess do baseball card sets again.
Yeah, there's a different feel to those 70s cards kids could cut away themselves. Hostess did a "regular" set in 1993 (see some at CheckOutMyCards), but it reflected the early 90s card boom more than a desire to make fun cards.
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