Thursday, July 8, 2021

Shining Star from a box of Bazooka gum

According to Baseballcardpedia, this range of cards were shipped at the rate of one per box of Bazooka gum. That seems the exact opposite to Topps normal cards, which had a ratio of lots of cards to one stick of gum.

Card Number 704: Topps Bazooka, 1989; #13


Although this is billed as a starter set, no other Bazooka branded cards were released that year. It was just the 22 cards that were inserted into boxes of gum.

The cardback is fairly standard - stats box, factoid and some bio data.


I like the Bazooka logo used as a watermark behind the stats box. That livens up the cardback a surprising amount.

This concludes the contents of the eBay package. Next up, a card that is brand, brand new.

Total: 704 cards


3 comments:

  1. The Bazooka brand has always been one of those brands I enjoyed. When these were sold the gum was good old fashion Bazooka bubble gum instead of the horrible baseball card gum. This was a product that made your jaw tired.

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  2. I remember buying boxes of Bazooka gum (had maybe 10 individually wrapped pieces) to get these cards. Not sure I ever pulled a Gwynn, but regardless... I have one now.

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  3. I feel there was some appreciation for the gum from you both!

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