Card of the Day: 1994 Cardz – Muppets Take The Ice – New York Islanders #40

Product Highlight: 1990 Good Humor Big League Ice Cream Bar Baseball Bat Autograph Stick

Products come in some elaborate packaging today.  You have to cut, tear, rip, and occasionally use a flamethrower just to access the cards.  It can be ridiculous.  Not to mention drive the price up.

How about having to eat ice cream in order to see what you got?  That’s exactly what needed to be done with the 1990 Good Humor Big League Ice Cream Bar Baseball Bat Autograph Stick set.  The set consists of (26) sticks shaped like miniature baseball bats.  Players are listed in alphabetical order, and numbered accordingly.  Every stick has a facsimile signature on the barrel.

Here’s the checklist:

• Jim Abbott #1
• George Bell #2
• Wade Boggs #3
• Bobby Bonilla #4
• Jose Canseco #5
• Will Clark #6
• Eric Davis #7
• Carlton Fisk #8
• Kirk Gibson #9
• Dwight Gooden #10
• Ken Griffey Jr. #11
• Von Hayes #12
• Don Mattingly #13
• Gregg Olson #14
• Kirby Puckett #15
• Tim Raines #16
• Nolan Ryan #17
• Bret Saberhagen #18
• Ryne Sandberg #19
• Benito Santiago #20
• Mike Scott #21
• Lonnie Smith #22
• Ozzie Smith #23
• Cory Snyder #24
• Alan Trammell #25
• Robin Yount #26

I know what you’re thinking.  “Those are cool.  But how would I store them?”  You’re in luck.  Good Humor made a special album that was available through a mail-in offer.  That album is probably more collectible than the actual sticks because you rarely see it.

Not a whole lot of value can be found with these sticks.  They’re all over the place.  None of them sell for more than $5.  Anyone still have a box sitting in the freezer?

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Flashback Product of the Week: 1994 Cardz – Muppets Take The Ice

Who doesn’t like the Muppets?  I’m not quite sure what Cardz was thinking when they decided to go through with this product.  Upper Deck’s Comic Ball sets didn’t do well, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense to release something like this.  Either way they are entertaining to look at.  Each box contains 36 packs, and collectors can look for randomly inserted Tekchrome cards.  Whacka-Whacka-Whacka!!!

Counterfeit Fro-Joy’s

 

Andy Broome of Beckett Grading Services wrote another piece today on how to spot counterfeit cards.  This time it deals with the Fro-Joy Ice Cream set from way back in the day.  Remember, if you see any colored Fro-Joy cards, they are very much fake.  You can read the entire article here.