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1984 (1983?) KG Glossy Baseball

tunahead08tunahead08 Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭
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Anyone know anything about this set and how it was issued? There are normal sized cards and also a postcard sized card.

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  • tsalemtsalem Posts: 504 ✭
    pic of any of the cards?
  • tunahead08tunahead08 Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭
    Postcard size card:

    image
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,522 ✭✭✭✭
    what about them? I know them...The smaller Ripken had him in a fielding pose with a card in a yellow border
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  • tunahead08tunahead08 Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭


    << <i>what about them? I know them...The smaller Ripken had him in a fielding pose with a card in a yellow border >>



    Do you know how they were distributed? And is KG the company or what? Any help on the origin of these cards would be greatly appreciated!!

    Normal card size:

    image
  • royalbrettroyalbrett Posts: 620 ✭✭✭
    I don't know anything about them, but here is my Brett:
    image
    Yeah, I uploaded that KC icon in 2001
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,522 ✭✭✭✭
    These were a un-licensed set that was issued in 1984 (pre- Broder). For awhile there was a rumor floating about that the smaller cards were "Donruss Promo Cards." They were distributed by a company that was called "Den's Collector's Den" in Laurel, MD. If you check their ad in the 1985 Street & Smith Baseball Annual (page 99), the description reads "K-G Glossie Prints $4.00 plus shipping/handling; This new set of 24 standard sized glossie (sic) prints features Ripken, Murray, Parrish, Rose, Murphy, Brett, Kittle, Sax, Carter, Garvey (with both L.A. and San Diego), Winfield, Jackson and nine more stars. In addition to these 24 blank prints, you receive four 3.5 x 5 prints-Murphy, Ripken, Rose and Brett (all different poses than are in the 24 card set)."

    I think it is interesting that they referred to them as "prints" as opposed to cards to probably skirt the licensing issue.

    Bill
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  • tunahead08tunahead08 Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭
    Wow, great info! Thanks a bunch! So being unlicensed, do these really have any collector value?

    You wouldn't happen to have a scan of that advertisement would you? image
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,522 ✭✭✭✭
    to a player collector they may be worth a few bucks a piece, but by all means they are far from hard to come by.

    image
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  • tunahead08tunahead08 Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭
    Thanks again for all the info, really appreciate it!
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