Love the oddball stuff too! I got this and a few other Kiwanis Cowboys for about $10... no idea what it books for but they're great photos on larger cards. Might have to go after all of them!
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Nice buy! I certainly would have made that purchase. Here is a checklist of that set which is loaded with huge names and even has 2 short prints!
I think the official name of these sets are "police sets" and different organizations (in this case Kiwanis) sponsor them. And they are criminally undervalued. I have a bunch of the 1989 Thurman Thomas Police card which correspnds to the year of his RCs. It is only worth about $5 last time I looked which is ridiculous. And in this cae the sponsor is Louis Rich Turkey Products which sounds hilarious!
That is a nice little set! Like I said, great photos. The Drew Pearson is amazing!
1968 Topps game yaz
Where I come from, we call him Clay Bellinger's son. LOL His dad who was a utility player in MLB for the Yankees (won 2 W.S. rings with them) and Angels is from Oneonta, NY which is (or was) the historical rival of my high school.
There's an oddball set similar to this which is the 1966 Royal Castle Miami Dolphins. I'm sure Jeff knows this set. No big stars. The cards are simply unfindable, and they book for $100-200 each! You would think these Cowboys would be in a similar range.
Nice that none got separated over time... gotta be from around '93
Happy to say I completed one of the small sets I've been working on... last card came in yesterday.
Greene/Peter '98 U.D. Starquest/Rookquest Red SR25
Greene/Peter '98 U.D. Starquest/Rookquest Red SR25
Congrats on completing that set. I can't even complete the base set with all their short print rookies! I've got both Mannings and both Moss's but those common rookies might as well be '52 Topps baseball high #s as far as I'm concerned.
I had never heard of that set before. THat would be an awesome set to have with its' organic scarcity. I can't figure many of those cards survived since sports collectibles were years away from being "a thing".
I looked up the checklist on that set and the players ranged from very famous (Bob Griese), guys known to vintage card collectors and old school football fans (Norm Evans), players more associted with other teams (Mel Branch-Chiefs) and a bunch of players I had never heard of. What an awesome collectable!!!
There are only 30 cards in the set so it wasn't a decades long build like some. I don't have the patience for that! I got the 2 big cards out of the way first (Elway/Manning & Rice/Moss)... then it wasn't too hard to find the others that I could afford.
It is an excersise in futility to try to complete a set if you don't have the main card or two unless you want open up your wallet big time. At least that is my rule.
I know all the players in the set from growing up in Miami - I have autos of most of them, the two you mentioned, Billy Neighbors, the unforgettable Rick Norton (who was worse than Dick Wood, if you can believe that), Billy Joe, Dick Westmoreland - but I've never seen the cards. And I used to love Royal Castle, it was Miami's version of White Castle. How I missed out on getting the cards at the time escapes me.
I was going to ask you what Royal Castle was.
It is hard to imagine when the Dolphins began in 1966 that Miami was considered to be a far flung outpost. And now, 50 years later it is a glamorous, destination city. And it is even harder to believe that despite those humble beginnings that they became the only undefeated Super Bowl Champion in just their 7th year of existance. I think when most people think of the Dolphins, they view them as a finesse team. Not those guys from the 70s. The whole team was a bunch of sledge hammers. Man, they were about as physical as you can get!
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