I recently hit a wall on finding some of the MSA food discs I've been after. As time has gone on I've learned more and more about these discs that not many collector's know about. Certainly, if one has been collecting cards for any length of time they have come across these. Most people toss them aside as step brothers to the more well known Topps issues but what people don't realize is that there are some really rare ones out there.
MSA stands for Michael Schechter and Associates. He was an entrepeuneur that released discs in partnership with the MLB Player's Union. He had releases from 1974 until 1991 and mainly dealt with the food industry.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/sbbw0922.htm
The MSA disc sets include: (1976) Towne Club, Red Barn, Orbaker's, Buckman's, Dairy Isle, Safelon, CRANE, and Isaly's. (1977) Customized, Wiffle Ball, Zip'z, Wendy's, Chilly Willee, Detroit caesar's, Dairy Isle, Holiday Inn, SAGA, 7-11 Wax Cup Lids, Burger Chef Fun Meal, and Pepsi Gloves. (1978) Pepsi, wiffle ball, SAGA, and Tastee-Freez. (1981) Peter Pan/Sunbeam, FBI Food. (1982) On Deck, FBI Food. (1985) Subway, Thom McAn JOX.
The discs included the companies advertisement on the back. A 1976 blank back version was also issued. There were others produced that weren't listed above but they were released for specific teams and after all, this is a Dodgers blog. :)
Highly regarded as the most rare are the 1981 FBI Food discs found on the bottom of Bantam Soda boxes in Canada. Few were printed and even fewer found themselves saved from the garbage dumpster. Because they were stocked on shelves of grocery stores and were on the bottom of boxes, even fewer can be found in good condition. The same holds true for the 1982 FBI release, also found on Bantam soda boxes, however, more were printed in the sophomore run.
A distant second to the FBI discs are the 1977 Wax Lids that were distributed at 7-11 stores. Few of these were kept over the years and even fewer were kept with the straw hole intact and "unpunched."
Also somewhat rare are the second color variations of some of the 1985 Thom McAn realease. These discs were printed to be included in certain brands of JOX shoes released by Thom McAn that year. 1976 Wendy's, 1976 Red Barn, 1978 SAGA, and 1985 Subway are also scarce.
I still need: '76 CRANE Andy Messersmith; '76 Red Barn Andy Messersmith; '76 Buckman's Ron Cey; '77 Wendy's Cey, Garvey, and Monday; '77 Customized Cey, Garvey, Monday; '77 Wax Lid Garvey; '78 SAGA Garvey; '81 FBI Garvey; '82 FBI Garvey, Valenzuela; '85 Subway Pedro Guerrero, Valenzuela; and '85 Thom McAn Valenzuela (non-yellow variation).
Here's a cool discussion thread regarding some of these rare pieces on collector's universe as well as some of the only pics I've ever seen of a couple of these.
http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=11&threadid=785836&STARTPAGE=2
MSA stands for Michael Schechter and Associates. He was an entrepeuneur that released discs in partnership with the MLB Player's Union. He had releases from 1974 until 1991 and mainly dealt with the food industry.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/sbbw0922.htm
The MSA disc sets include: (1976) Towne Club, Red Barn, Orbaker's, Buckman's, Dairy Isle, Safelon, CRANE, and Isaly's. (1977) Customized, Wiffle Ball, Zip'z, Wendy's, Chilly Willee, Detroit caesar's, Dairy Isle, Holiday Inn, SAGA, 7-11 Wax Cup Lids, Burger Chef Fun Meal, and Pepsi Gloves. (1978) Pepsi, wiffle ball, SAGA, and Tastee-Freez. (1981) Peter Pan/Sunbeam, FBI Food. (1982) On Deck, FBI Food. (1985) Subway, Thom McAn JOX.
The discs included the companies advertisement on the back. A 1976 blank back version was also issued. There were others produced that weren't listed above but they were released for specific teams and after all, this is a Dodgers blog. :)
Highly regarded as the most rare are the 1981 FBI Food discs found on the bottom of Bantam Soda boxes in Canada. Few were printed and even fewer found themselves saved from the garbage dumpster. Because they were stocked on shelves of grocery stores and were on the bottom of boxes, even fewer can be found in good condition. The same holds true for the 1982 FBI release, also found on Bantam soda boxes, however, more were printed in the sophomore run.
A distant second to the FBI discs are the 1977 Wax Lids that were distributed at 7-11 stores. Few of these were kept over the years and even fewer were kept with the straw hole intact and "unpunched."
Also somewhat rare are the second color variations of some of the 1985 Thom McAn realease. These discs were printed to be included in certain brands of JOX shoes released by Thom McAn that year. 1976 Wendy's, 1976 Red Barn, 1978 SAGA, and 1985 Subway are also scarce.
I still need: '76 CRANE Andy Messersmith; '76 Red Barn Andy Messersmith; '76 Buckman's Ron Cey; '77 Wendy's Cey, Garvey, and Monday; '77 Customized Cey, Garvey, Monday; '77 Wax Lid Garvey; '78 SAGA Garvey; '81 FBI Garvey; '82 FBI Garvey, Valenzuela; '85 Subway Pedro Guerrero, Valenzuela; and '85 Thom McAn Valenzuela (non-yellow variation).
Here's a cool discussion thread regarding some of these rare pieces on collector's universe as well as some of the only pics I've ever seen of a couple of these.
http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=11&threadid=785836&STARTPAGE=2
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