Sunday, September 20, 2020

Oddball Food Issue: 1982 Crack Jack

Crack Jack has a long history with baseball cards, but it's sparse. They produced cards in 1914 and 1915, then they produced a two panel set of 16 cards featuring some baseball greats in connection with the Old Timers Game at RFK stadium in 1982. It would be almost a decade before they featured baseball cards again in 1991 and 1992. No cards since. I think it's about time for more Cracker Jack baseball cards.

These 1982 Cracker Jack panels were part of a collection I bought last year.





I was only 1 in 1982, but by 1991 I was buying lots of Cracker Jack after Little League games in 1991 and 1992. I never really considered collecting those sets though, so at this point I pretty much will be starting from scratch on those sets. Some day I would love to own an original 1914 or 1915 Cracker Jack card. Anybody out there reading this have a 1914 or 1915 Cracker Jack card in your collection?
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5 comments:

  1. gcrlSeptember 20, 2020 at 5:38 AM

    I don't have any 1914 or 15 cracker jack cards, but I do have the duke snider from this set. I like the design as its a mashup of 1978 and 1979 topps.

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  2. Brett AlanSeptember 20, 2020 at 7:43 AM

    I don't have any original Cracker Jack cards, no. I used to have a t-shirt of Joe Jackson's card.

    The Kiner and Feller cards here look so weird, with the drawings lifted from their 1953 Topps cards while the rest have photos.

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  3. FujiSeptember 20, 2020 at 8:58 AM

    These uncut sheets are awesome! Solid design with some heavy hitters on the checklist. Off to eBay to add this to my watchlist.

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  4. BoSeptember 20, 2020 at 2:30 PM

    I've never seen this set before - nice cards!

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  5. night owlSeptember 21, 2020 at 9:07 AM

    Took me forever to get the Snider from this set. It's also my goal to get a 1914 Cracker Jack card.

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