Hammering Hank Promo Card
I was digging through a box looking for some cards to complete a trade and I came across this Hank Aaron promotional card. The card is from the San Diego Sports Collectors Association in 1981. The card offers fifty cents off on admission to the San Diego Show at the Town & Country Hotel. I am curious if this worked like a grocery coupon of if the attendee got to keep the card?
The card is number 2 and the bottom of the card mentions that this card is one of a series of twenty picture cards. It also mentions a card shop named Collectors Dugout in Escondido California, I wonder if it is still in business. The show had over 100 tables with auctions, door prizes, free parking, baseball cards, postcards, guides, gum cards, programs, yearbooks, schedules, pins, uniforms, autographs, novelties and ticket stubs just to mention some of the stuff you would find.
This card reminds me of the old photographs my grandmother used to pull out of boxes and from between pages of family Bibles and such. I got this card from a bulk lot purchase on Ebay several years ago.
Apparently this was a common practice for the San Diego Sports Collectors Association as I found this Ebay auction for a 1986 San Diego Sports Collectors Association Babe Ruth.
Can anyone plug in the holes and give me the history of these? How many years did they produce them and what players were issued?
April 29th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I have a Al Kaline somewhere in a box. Unfortunately, that is all I know.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Thanks for stopping by Ernestreyes.
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Here is what I found: 1 – Gary Butcher, 2 – Hank Aaron, 3 – Duke Snider, 4 – Al Kaline, 5 – Vic Power, 6-Jackie Robinson, 7-Carl Erskine, 8-Ted Williams Batting, 9-Ted Williams Portrait, 10-Mickey Mantle Portrait, 11-Mickey Mantle Holding bat, 12-Mantle/Mays, 13-Mantle/Musial, 14-DiMaggio, 15-Maris Portrait, 16-Maris-holding bat, 17-Gehrig, 18-Bill dickey/Lou Gehrig, 19-Gehrig, Cronin, Dickey, DiMaggio, 20-Gary Butcher (pulled from the 2003 Beckett Almanac). I knew I kept this Alamanc around for something…
The description does not mention if the attendees kept the cards or not. Hope this helps some!
May 4th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Thanks for posting the info David. I would like to have the Mantles and the Gehrig issues.
May 4th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
That is NIFTY. Are you going to seek the other 19 cards?
May 5th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Hi Dinged Corners, I may try to find the Mantles and the Gehrig. Although it might be fun to try and put it together since you don’t see these everywhere.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:13 am
Sadly, The Collectors Dugout is no longer with us. It isn’t one of the shops I remember in Escondido (I will check with Rod Richards from Padrographs- He used to live in Escondido)… The place looks big (check out the steet view from Google Maps):
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=333+E+Grand+Ave,+Escondido,+San+Diego,+California+92025&sll=33.122372,-117.077619&sspn=0.002691,0.005665&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FSpr-QEdhogF-Q&split=0&ll=33.123324,-117.077935&spn=0.002691,0.005665&z=18&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=33.12343,-117.078111&panoid=U_u0qFP5IclCAfSfamw9AA&cbp=12,146.92,,0,5
Wow! That link is huuuuuuuge, man!
There is still one card shop that I know of in Escondido. South Juniper and 2nd Ave…
I forget the name, but they are pretty nice folks.