I'm still mostly on the sidelines waiting for COVID-19 to abate and the oil & gas industry to pull out of it's tailspin. But, I did manage to add a couple new things to my Paul Blair player collection.
As you can see this is the O-Pee-Chee version of his 1968 card. With this, I have ten of the eleven OPC Blair cards. The only one I lack now is card number 153 from 1967, which is the World Series Game #3 card - Blair's Homer Defeats L.A. There is another such card he appears on, 1971 Topps/OPC #195, the AL playoffs game 1 card. However, while he appears on the card, he is not the subject, which is Boog Powell. Blair is just congratulating Powell after he hit a home run. So, I'm not going to consider that part of the PC.
This is a team issued photo from 1975. I know have 4 team issued photo cards. In addition to this one, I believe I have 1969, 1971, and 1973. There isn't a lot of good resources out there for these types of issues, but there are a number of Orioles team collectors on net54. I'm hoping they can help me know definitively which years they are.
Added in edit: I am told by a long time Orioles collector that the photo was actually issued by the team in 1973-1974.
What I am listening to: Rock Me Baby by B.B. King, Susan Tedeschi, and Derek Trucks
Just curious... were team issued photo cards stadium giveaways? Or sold at the team store?
ReplyDeleteI really don't know. There is a thread over Net54 with several Orioles collectors. I'll have to ask.
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