1962 Post Cereal

Total Cards: 200

Rating: 6.5 (17 votes)
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Cards

1 Bill Skowron UER
UER: DOB Should Be 1930
New York Yankees
2 Bobby Richardson New York Yankees
3 Cletis Boyer New York Yankees
4 Tony Kubek New York Yankees
5a Mickey Mantle BOX, VAR
VAR: No Printing On Back. Lines Between Stats
New York Yankees
5b Mickey Mantle AD, VAR
VAR: Printing On Back; No Lines Between Stats. Inserted In Life Magazine
New York Yankees
6a Roger Maris BOX, VAR
VAR: No Printing On Back
New York Yankees
6b Roger Maris AD, VAR
VAR: Printing On Back; Inserted in Life Magazine
New York Yankees
7 Yogi Berra New York Yankees
8 Elston Howard New York Yankees

Trivia

  • The cards of Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were reproduced in a special two-card panel for a magazine insert.

User Comments

May 12, 2010 - 8:47AM
iffie99

This set is probably the easiest of the three sets to build. American League players comprise the numbers from 1-100. Each card has the Post logo on it and the statistics have a blue border around them. The National League numbers from 101-200 and have a red border around the statistics.

There are short prints scattered throughout the set, but all are more readily available than SPs from either 1961 or 1963 - Sieburn, Keough, Hodges, Coleman, Lynch to name a few. Most of the games stars are represented in this set with a few exceptions - Stan Musial and Warren Sphan (even though he was in the 1961 set) come to mind.

There are also fifteen or so variations in this set. By far the most difficult are the blue line versions of Koufax, Clemente and Joey Jay. These cards have the normal red border around the statistics, but the hairline rules dividing the statistics is blue rather than red. There are also two versions of Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. One from the back of the cereal boxes whereas the second was an insert in an April 1962 edition of Life Magazine promoting the Post baseball card set. The final notable variation is of Brave Joe Adcock. Post misspelled his name on the some of the press run so collectors look for the Joe Adock variation.

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