Released in 2001, the Post Cereal 500 Home Run Club baseball card set consisted of eight standard-size baseball cards, issued two to a Post cereal box. The collector could see the front of one of these cards through the front of the cereal box. The cards have the Topps 50th anniversary, Hall of Fame, and "500 Home Run Club" logos on them.
It's a satisfying "complete set."
Post Cereal cards were first issued in 1960 and continued through 1963, and those sets are extremely valuable. Deze are not doze.
Post also produced sets from 1990-95 and in 2001 WBCE (Worthless Baseball Card Era) teamed with Topps to include free baseball cards in millions of cereal boxes from April to July 2001. That's probably from whence the 500 Home Run cards hail.
And since we're nostalgic for this ancient time, here is link to a quaint albeit fairly informative newspaper article about baseball cards from a March 2001 issue of USA Today.
In the same eBay auction, we also picked up the following Post cereal sets:
1 Jeff Bagwell
2 Ryne Sandberg
3 Don Mattingly
4 Wally Joyner
5 Dwight Gooden
6 Chuck Knoblauch
7 Kirby Puckett
8 Ozzie Smith
9 Cal Ripken, Jr.
10 Darryl Strawberry
11 George Brett
12 Joe Carter
13 Cecil Fielder
14 Will Clark
15 Barry Bonds
16 Roger Clemens
17 Paul Molitor
18 Scott Erickson
19 Wade Boggs
20 Ken Griffey, Jr.
21 Bobby Bonilla
22 Terry Pendleton
23 Barry Larkin
24 Frank Thomas
25 Jose Canseco
26 Tony Gwynn
27 Nolan Ryan
28 Howard Johnson
29 David Justice
30 Danny Tartabull
2 Will Clark
3 Kirby Puckett
4 Roger Clemens
5 Fred McGriff
6 Eric Karos
7 Ken Griffey, Jr.
8 Tony Gwynn
9 Cal Ripken, Jr.
10 Cecil Fielder
11 Gary Sheffield
12 Don Mattingly
13 Ryne Sandberg
14 Frank Thomas
15 Barry Bonds
16 Paul Molitor
17 Terry Pendleton
18 Darren Daulton
19 Mark McGwire
20 Nolan Ryn
21 om Glavine
22 oberto Alomar
23 Juan Gonzalez
24 Bobby Bonilla
25 George Brett
26 Ozzie Smith
27 Andy Van Slyke
28 Barry Larkin
29 John Kruk
30 Robin Yount
2 Don Mattingly
3 Juan Gonzalez
4 Kirby Puckett
5 Gary Sheffield
6 David Justice
7 Jack McDowell
8 Mo Vaughn
9 Darren Daulton
10 Bobby Bonilla
11 Barry Bonds
12 Barry Larkin
13 Tony Gwynn
14 Mark Grace
15 Ken Griffy
16 Tom Glavine
17 Cecil Fielder
18 RobertoAlomar
19 Mark Whiten
20 Lenny Dykstra
21 Frank Thomas
22 Will Clark
23 Andres Galarraga
24 John Olerud
25 Cal Ripken, Jr.
26 Tim Salmon
27 Albert Belle
28 Gregg Jefferies
29 Jeff Bagwell
30 Orlando Merced
2 comments:
A guy in my department at work has the 1994 Post set sitting on a shelf at his desk. He has very little interest in cards, but keeps that set there for some reason. I know it has some sort of meaning to him.
I'm dying to ask him for the Piazza card, or at least to trade for it, but I'm trying to find a way to not sound foolish in asking for it. Oh, the pain we go through for this hobby.
I have some of each set from 1990 through 1995. Some of these I got from actual cereal boxes. The 1995 cards are bigger cards and a friend of mine gave me the entire set for my birthday in 1995 (you could get the full set through the mail). In 2002, Post had mini bobble heads. There were 10 of them plus AL and NL All-Stars figures. I managed to get most of them in cereal boxes but had to get a few on eBay to complete the set. There was a nice stand to display them available for boxtops. In 2003, there was a Post set produced by Upper Deck. I have 3 complete sets of these which I got as complete sets in repacks. I have no idea how they were originally distributed. Unlike earlier Post issues, these were fully licensed so the team logos haven't ben removed.
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