The 1976 Hostess baseball card set consist of 150 cards. The cards were printed in three card panels on the bottom of specially marked boxes of Hostess snack cakes such as Ding Dongs, Cup Cakes, and Twinkies.
Great photo of the "Crime Dog" following through with his high swing.
From the 1988 San Diego Padres Junior Padres Club team set.
A clean card design and colorful portrait of Tony for the 1991 Padres Magazine card sponsored by Rally's Hamburgers. The orange banner for the name and blue background really complements the Padre colors on the uniform and hat.
1992 Ultra Tony Gwynn Special #1 and #2 distributed via wrapper redemption mail-in offer.
1992 Ultra Tony Gwynn Commemorative Promo Card featuring FleerCorp Chairman/CEO Paul Mullan and Tony Gwynn distributed at the 1992 Fleer stockholders meeting.
1992 Ultra A Salute to the Children of Casa de Amparo distributed locally in San Diego to promote Casa de Amparo.
In honor of Tony Gwynn’s birthday (5/10/60).
1992 Ultra Tony Gwynn Commemorative Subset #1-10. Inserted in Series 1 packs.
This subset has beautiful shots of Tony in action on the front and close ups on the back. The back of each card gives insightful details of Tony’s career in baseball and his outstanding achievements both on and off the field.
Team sets should be a minimum of a 20 card set of Padres players representing the team in that year. Can be any manufacturer that distributed a team set (i.e. Topps, Donruss, etc.) or even a limited distribution (Mother’s Cookies, Junior Padres, etc.).
Examples could be for team sets with the most beautiful or innovative card, a special year in performance (World Series team), a team set with multiple HOF players, multiple All-Stars or many future stars.
Any Padres team set is worthy of inclusion and we want to hear what are your favorite sets. Please include a brief reason why a particular set resonates so highly for you.
A 30 card set sponsored by D.A.R.E. in 1992. Cards shown include 1992 All Stars (Fred McGriff, Tony Fernandez, Gary Sheffield and Tony Gwynn), Andy Benes, Tony Fernandez, Tony Gwynn, Bruce Hurst, Craig Lefferts, Fred McGriff, Merv Rettenmund, Greg Riddoch, Benito Santiago, Gary Sheffield, Padres Relievers (Larry Anderson, Mike Maddux, Jose Melendez, Rich Rodriguez and Tim Scott), and Jack Murphy Stadium.
The San Diego Padres held a McDonald’s Fotoball night on Tuesday, July 30, 1974. The first 10,000 youngsters 14 years of age and under received the promotional item.
The fotoball is a plastic replica of a baseball with six color photos of Padres players and Ronald McDonald on it plus the schedule of the remaining Padre home games. The photo discs measure 2 3/8" in diameter, and have a notch at the bottom so they could be filed the plastic baseball-shaped holder.
Included here are Matty Alou, Glenn Beckert, Nate Colbert, Bill Grief, John Grubb, Enzo Hernandez, Willie McCovey, Dave Roberts, Bobby Tolan, Padres Home Schedule.
Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn. Ted played for the minor league Padres in 1936.
Bruce Bochy, Tim Flannery, Davey Lopes, Steve Finley, Tony Gwynn (2), Kevin Caminiti, Wally Joyner, Ricky Henderson, Fernando Valenzuela and Trevor Hoffman.