1969 Globe Imports Playing Cards Gas Station Issue Baseball Forum

I have a set of these from an auction.  At least that is says on the baggie that they were in.  How in the world do I find out if  if these cards are real?  Without sending them to place like PSA or Beckett?  They look fake.  But they look like all the pictures I have seen on the internet.Do they have any distinguishing marks that I should look for?

i have them too, had them for a while but never really knew what in the world they are. mine are smaller than a mini card and seem like they could have been easily run off a copy machine and cut up. never saw them slabbed before.

Bumping this up for further discussion as I've gotten a few of these from a vendor through Beckett. They not only look as if run off a copier, but as if they took a color picture and copied it as black and white, not grayscale, if you know what I mean. I was very disappointed when I received these.

Many of the Globe Imports photographs are the same as those used in the Nabisco set. Nabisco set is color. I remember buying the Globe Imports set at the local Ben Franklin. I still have one unopened. They are definitely a cheaply made set, barely worth the paper they're printed on. They hold childhood memories for me.

Thanks, Jay, I'll need to check out the Nabisco set. I'm not usually disappointed with vintage cards, but these Global Imports sure did.

This set is pure junk ... so why did I buy three of them?  One set was sufficient to pull out particular players, but why did I need two extras that are still in the original cellophane wrap?  I don't remember ... but maybe I'm destined to be a hero on TCDB!!!  You have the front images of every card, EXCEPT Cesar Tovar.  He was not in the deck I opened years ago, but maybe his in one of my two unopened decks.  Woo-hoo, you'll give me 10,000 bonus points if I have him, right?!

Okay, I'm starting to open deck #1, which has Jim Lonborg as the card on top.  Phooey, no Tovar, the set is exactly the same as my opened one.  The database lists Mike McCormack, Carl Yaz, Babe Ruth, Mantle, and Don Drysdale as alternate cards in this set, but I have none of them so far.

On to the last deck, which has Tony Horton on top.  P.U., this deck is another duplicate of what I have already.

We appreciate you chasing the Cesar Tovar for the site. . Sorry you didn't pull it.

As much as I agree with the general dislike for this set, I do have an offer out there that includes me getting three more of them! No I don't have a problem.

Keyman Collectibles has some info on these.