1984 Gardner's Bakeries

Year: 1984

Manufacturer: Topps

Card Set: Gardner's Bakeries Baseball Series II

Card Number: 22

Card Type: Base - Food Issue/Oddball

I can remember back in the 80's my grandmother giving me the baseball cards that came out of Gardner's loafs.  She didn't give me this one, but it's still a nice memory, especially since she threw out my dad's baseball card collection.

Gardner's is a Wisconsin Bakery that has outlets all over the state and sells in pretty much every supermarket, or they did, I haven't gone bread shopping in Wisconsin in a long time.  Gardner's put out 3 sets in the mid 80's starting in 1983 with Series 1, then this set in 1984 Series II and a set in 1985.  Gardner's also put out a set in 1989.

I really like the Gardner sets from this time.  They look nothing like the regular Topps issues, except for the backs which are pretty indistinguishable from the 1984 baseball set, save for the numbering.  The fronts are designed well and are really bold and colorful. It's cards like this that make me long for the return of these oddball food issues that'll never happen.

A couple new Younts for the Super Collection

It's been a fairly slow Yount month or months rather.  But I did pick up two new Younts for the collection.

First was from a 1983 Gardner's Bakery's Brewer Set that I blogged about in the complete form over at Miles from Miller.

A great card and it reminded me of how many Gardner's Younts I'm missing so that'll be a new focus for a while.

And there has been a few low numbered 2010 Sterling Parallels on ebay right now, but they're going for way too much money for this cheap bastard so I settled for picking up a White Suede #d to 50 parallel.

I'm looking forward to Series 1 coming out next week.  I do believe there are a few Younts sprinkled into the 60th anniversary set.