The year was 1947 and Jackie Robinson took the giant step of integrating Major League Baseball. The same year, the General Baking Co. showed its support by creating a series of Robinson cards to be packaged in bags of Bond Bread.
There were 13 different Robinson cards within the series. One of them features a striking close-up portrait of Jackie holding his well-worn first baseman’s mitt in front of him. In early June, an ungraded example of that card turned up on eBay and sold for $15,000, despite creases and age spots evident in the listing photo.
In recent months on eBay, other specimens of the same card sold for prices of:
• $5,200 (PSA 2)• $2,423 (PSA 1)• $2,136 (PSA 1)
Among the other 12 different Bond Bread cards of Robinson, one of them shows a
