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You are here: Home / Sports Card News / Vintage Sports Card News / 1965 Bazooka Baseball Cards Kept Kids Blowing Bubbles

1965 Bazooka Baseball Cards Kept Kids Blowing Bubbles

October 29, 2020 By Rich Mueller

If you really, really liked bubble gum and could save up a couple of dimes or a quarter, you could go to the grocery store or the dime store and buy a whole box.  Twenty delicious, tightly wrapped pieces of 
Bazooka bubble gum were inside, complete with a Bazooka Joe comic.  If you loved baseball, though, the real prize was on the back.  There was no need to buy a pack and hope Mickey Mantle was inside.  With this Topps product, you could pick him out. 

Bazooka 1965 box front

The 1965 Bazooka baseball cards were virtually identical to the sets that had been issued in the five previous years of the decade.  A few names among the 36 cards on the checklist changed from year to year but many of the familiar stars of the day remained.  Mantle.  Mays.  Clemente.  Koufax.  Killebrew.  Robinson.

Bazooka 1965 baseball complete box

1965 Bazooka baseball arrived during a year of change.  Houston’s relatively new ballclub changed its name from the Colt .45s to the Astros and had set up shop inside the Astrodome.  Baseball played indoors?  What seemed like a space age concept ten years earlier was reality.

Sad reality arrived in Milwaukee where efforts to save the Braves had failed, setting the team up for one final season before a move to Atlanta. The Los Angeles Angels were becoming the California Angels and moving to Anaheim.  The Minnesota Twins made their first World Series and led two games to none before Sandy Koufax lassoed their bats.

Sandy Koufax 1965 Bazooka

Bazooka sets can be confusing if you don’t consult a price guide and/or detailed checklist such as those found in the Standard Catalog.  Many of the stars who appeared on a virtually annual basis were numbered the same from year to year.  The only way to tell the difference was the photo.  In 1964, Mantle’s Bazooka card shows him with the bat on his shoulder. In ’65, he was card #1 again but the photo shows the switch-hitter batting lefty.  Sometimes the differences are very subtle.  Mays (#12) was looking to his left in ’64.  He’s looking down in ’65.

Mickey Mantle 1965 Bazooka panel

In all, there are 15 Hall of Famers in the 1965 Bazooka set.  The best panels are #11 featuring Frank Robinson, Koufax and Colavito and #3 carrying both Aaron and Killebrew.  Again, some big names were mysteriously missing.  There is no Ernie Banks.  No Willie McCovey.  No Roger Maris. No Yaz. It’s likely Topps tried to include at least one player from every team but it seems like the boxes would have sold better with more star power.

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Grocery ad featuring Bazooka bubble gum boxes on sale.

Most youngsters cut the cards out individually on the handy dandy dotted lines while others clipped off the entire back panel.  A few unused boxes survived the factory and carry a large premium.  Oddly, most of the complete boxes that have been graded feature Clemente, Veale and Callison while the box showing Robinson, Colavito and Koufax makes up the bulk of the remaining supply. A PSA 10 Veale/Clemente/Callison panel sold for $5,918 earlier this year while an ungraded box with Koufax, Frank Robinson and Colavito went for $1,500.

Hank Aaron 1965 Bazooka baseball card

In all, PSA has graded over 500 single cards, over 300 panels and 78 complete boxes.  SGC has graded 60 singles, 109 panels and one box.

Prices vary a lot, depending on condition.  Many of the common single cards sell for just a few dollars while complete panels or boxes featuring stars can bring much more in high grade.  A good quality complete panel set sold at auction in early 2015 for over $5,600.  A panel featuring Mantle, graded PSA 10, sold for $3,871  while one of the 5 Mantle PSA 10 singles graded PSA 9 netted $2,276 in 2019. 

The single cards that have proven most elusive in higher grade are Elston Howard and Larry Jackson.

Several dozen cards and panels are on eBay now.  Click here to check them out.

1965 Bazooka Baseball Checklist

1             Mickey Mantle
2             Larry Jackson
3             Chuck Hinton
4             Tony Oliva
5             Dean Chance
6             Jim O’Toole
7             Harmon Killebrew
8             Pete Ward
9             Hank Aaron
10           Dick Radatz
11           Boog Powell
12           Willie Mays
13           Bob Veale
14           Roberto Clemente
15           Johnny Callison
16           Joe Torre
17           Billy Williams
18           Bob Chance
19           Bob Aspromonte
20           Joe Christopher
21           Jim Bunning
22           Jim Fregosi
23           Bob Gibson
24           Juan Marichal
25           Dave Wickersham
26           Ron Hunt
27           Gary Peters
28           Ron Santo
29           Elston Howard
30           Brooks Robinson
31           Fred Robinson
32           Sandy Koufax
33           Rocky Colavito
34           Al Kaline
35           Ken Boyer
36           Tommy Davis

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