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Yep, it's yet another one of my "Today" posts. Today, I had I pretty cool IP success. It's actually one of the coolest IP successes I've ever had. I've met President's Ford, Carter, both Bush's, Clinton, and Mikhail Gorbachev, but today's ranks right up there with them. Today, I met...Wayne Bebb.
"Who," you ask?
Wayne Bebb was the VP of Marketing for Mother's Cookies back in the day, and the man responsible for creating the coolest card set of the '80's and '90's. Man, I love those cards! I always made sure I was one of the first in the Astrodome when those cards were given away. Bebb hired Barry Cola to do the photography, which gave the cards a distinctive high quality, superior to Topps, Donruss, and Fleer, back in the day.
I met Bebb at a card show today, where he was selling a tremendous hoard of Mother's Cookies cards. He told me about the 15 year fight he had to keep those cards going. Every year he had to fight tooth and nail to keep those cards from getting axed from the Mother's Cookie's budget. Upper management just seemed to view the cards as Wayne's hobby. It was, however, quite a marketing ploy. Until those cards came out I never heard of Mother's Cookies, and they helped put that company on the map. The company has since been bought out, and may still be running as a regional brand out west, but the cards were the highlight of the glory days of that company.
Bebb had every set imaginable today, and it was really a trip down memory lane. If you ever stood in one of those long lines to get those cards you know what I'm talking about. Bebb signed one of his Mother's Cookies business cards for me, which just happens to be a Mother's Cookies baseball card. He also told me every year, during the cards run, he sent care packages to each player depicted on the cards, complete with complete sets, and multiples of the players cards for his personal use. He also included an envelope filled with a dozen cards and a sharpie, as well as a return SASE, hoping some of the players might sign the cards. Several of them did, and returned them signed to Bebb, which is how I picked up a signed Mark McGwire rookie Mother's Cookies card with a vintage '87 sig today.
Just by chance, if he ever googles his name and happens to find this, thank you for your time today, Mr. Bebb, and thank you for the cards and the memories!
"Who," you ask?
Wayne Bebb was the VP of Marketing for Mother's Cookies back in the day, and the man responsible for creating the coolest card set of the '80's and '90's. Man, I love those cards! I always made sure I was one of the first in the Astrodome when those cards were given away. Bebb hired Barry Cola to do the photography, which gave the cards a distinctive high quality, superior to Topps, Donruss, and Fleer, back in the day.
I met Bebb at a card show today, where he was selling a tremendous hoard of Mother's Cookies cards. He told me about the 15 year fight he had to keep those cards going. Every year he had to fight tooth and nail to keep those cards from getting axed from the Mother's Cookie's budget. Upper management just seemed to view the cards as Wayne's hobby. It was, however, quite a marketing ploy. Until those cards came out I never heard of Mother's Cookies, and they helped put that company on the map. The company has since been bought out, and may still be running as a regional brand out west, but the cards were the highlight of the glory days of that company.
Bebb had every set imaginable today, and it was really a trip down memory lane. If you ever stood in one of those long lines to get those cards you know what I'm talking about. Bebb signed one of his Mother's Cookies business cards for me, which just happens to be a Mother's Cookies baseball card. He also told me every year, during the cards run, he sent care packages to each player depicted on the cards, complete with complete sets, and multiples of the players cards for his personal use. He also included an envelope filled with a dozen cards and a sharpie, as well as a return SASE, hoping some of the players might sign the cards. Several of them did, and returned them signed to Bebb, which is how I picked up a signed Mark McGwire rookie Mother's Cookies card with a vintage '87 sig today.
Just by chance, if he ever googles his name and happens to find this, thank you for your time today, Mr. Bebb, and thank you for the cards and the memories!
