1961 Nu-Cards Baseball Scoops Braves Team Set

Thanks again for everyone's support. You know I couldn't stay gone for too long and besides, I had a very productive day today.

I got a 1961 Nu-Card Baseball Scoops card from Matt G. (same guy who sent me the Chipper Flipper) And I thought I'd show off my Braves Nu-Card set. After reviewing the checklist it turns out I don't actually have a complete team set but I'm showing 'em off anyway. As you can see the set has a newspaper headline theme. The company came out with a similar set in a larger format size the year before with both the photo and the text on the front and a quiz on the back. For some reason the 80 card 1961 set starts at #401 and goes to #480. This is a good set for cheapskates as you can usually find high-quality star cards for under $100. Yes, even Mantles.

402 Warren Spahn Hurls No-Hitter, Whiffs 15

408 Braves' Lew Burdette Wins No-Hitter


412 Eddie Mathews Blasts 300th Big League Homer


425 Red Schoendienst Key Player in Victory


433 Adcock Gets Four Homers, Double


435 Burdette Beats Yanks in 3 Series Games


451 Braves Take Pennant


462 Aaron's Bat Beats Yankees in Series


463 Warren Spahn Beats Yanks in World Series

Somehow Spahn has eluded me. No worries, it's just another thing to chase. You can kind of see why these cards aren't all that popular, but then again that's the whole oddball appeal.

I've still got plenty of vintage stuff to post and to be honest a lot of newer stuff I never got around to. I will let you in on a little secret: Next week I just might rip a box of colorful retro horizontal cards. Keep it under your hat though...