It’s the early ’90’s and, four bowls of Raisin Bran down, you have to rush to school. Coming back home, you have every intention of getting to the bottom of that box, but fear strikes when the box is no longer there. OK, lesson learned… From now on, when there’s basketball cards in your Raisin Bran, dump it all out in a big bowl right away! Do you remember these cards? We were all excited that we now had two scoops of raisins, but even better was three basketball cards!
Yep, for a brief period of time, three of these cards were placed in a small plastic wrapper in your Raisin Bran. The set included 18 college cards of current NBA stars. Some were newer to the NBA than others. For example, card #1 Kenny Anderson was in the midst of his rookie season while this card #12 Charles Smith, he was playing his fourth year.
Very fun cards. Kellogg’s logo, set name, and team colors on the border make up the front. The back is horizontal. The cards are numbered out of 18, so you immediately knew how many more boxes of cereal might be needed to finish the set. (Actually there was a mail-in offer where you could get the whole set and a nice binder to keep them in). College stats are included, but more useful are the accomplishments listed above. Charles Smith has a legacy at Pitt, that’s for sure. He was the 1988 Big East Player-of-the-Year right before he was drafted. And, as of the recording of this video, he remains their all-time leading scorer with 2,045 points.
By the way, there’s actually a lot of these printed. They were even repackaged into sets and sold after the promotion ended. Also, we see they were produced by BD&A Cards. The only thing I know about them, was that they made these cards. If anyone has any information about them, I’m really curious what else they might have produced.
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