80's and 90's Mother's Cookies- Finished the Gwynn Set

Gwynn545 · Aug 19, 2010

I don't even know how many players have Mother's Cookies cards. I know Mariners had them and Oakland had them, so maybe it's only a west coast thing.
They came one card per bag of Mother's cookies. The padres had team had sets in 1984 and 1985, and then not again until 1992-2001. They are not terribly rare, and not too expensive. Mother's was actually bought out by Keebler in 1999, so the last three are actually Keebler cards, but I still call them Mother's! Finally landed the 1993 to finish the run:

SamHell · Aug 19, 2010

Congrats on completion. I know the Mother's Cookies did a at least a couple of sets for the Rangers back in the mid to late 80's. I have a couple put up somewhere.

Edit. Just noticed you said they were one per bag of cookies. The ones I am talking about were giving out as team sets at games.

Gwynn545 · Aug 20, 2010

SamHell said:
Congrats on completion. I know the Mother's Cookies did a at least a couple of sets for the Rangers back in the mid to late 80's. I have a couple put up somewhere.

Edit. Just noticed you said they were one per bag of cookies. The ones I am talking about were giving out as team sets at games.

Actually, they may have been giveaways...I am not sure. I do remember some nolan ryans, too

bouwob · Aug 20, 2010

Ryan had them since 84 I believe. I need a few more

bouwob · Aug 20, 2010

bouwob said:
Ryan had them since 84 I believe. I need a few more

+ the 1000 or so uncuts, un 1/2 cuts, 1/3 uncuts and so on and so forth

predatorkj · Aug 20, 2010

They were made for several teams. I have a good portion of the astros team sets as well as the Bagwells. I think I am may be missing a couple. No more than that though. I know the astros ones were give aways at the stadium but I also know there were some you could get from the actual packages because my grandmother(yeah...I said it) collected them. She had all the astros and Nolan Ryan's.

ronfromfresno · Aug 20, 2010

Sorry for the large scans, but here's what I believe to be a complete run of Will Clarks. Mother's did team set giveaways and of certain players cards were inserted 1 per bag.

1986-87

1988 Still in Wrapper 1 per bag

1988-89

1990 Uncut strip of 1 per bag cards

1990-91

1992-93

None for 1994-95

1996-97

Gwynn545 · Aug 20, 2010

ronfromfresno said:
Sorry for the large scans, but here's what I believe to be a complete run of Will Clarks. Mother's did team set giveaways and of certain players cards were inserted 1 per bag.

Cool!! Looks like the Padres and the Giants alternated for a while. Like I said, I know the Mariners and A's had them. Sounds like Rangers and Astros, too. Looks to be a West (Southwest) Coast thing!

SouthSideSluggers · Aug 20, 2010

It is a West Coast thing(Mothers Cookies were just sold on the West Coast), the were big with Jose Canseco, Nolan Ryan, Will Clark, as well as doing team sets for the Dodgers and then the whole Griffey and his Dad set for the Mariners...I just got a whole bunch of Will Clark, Canseco, Ryans, a few Griffeys etc even some un opened ones so let me know what your looking for and I will see what I have.

Labratt21 · Aug 20, 2010

During the late 80's early 90's mothers cookies the A's would have a Mother's Cookies baseball card giveaway. The package contained 15 or 20 different cards and 5 or 10 dupes. The idea was that you could find people in the stadium and trade for the set. I have 2 sets of these bad boys somewhere, I thought it was a cool idea. Met some nice people and got to talk cards.

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