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This blog will explore the baseball card collecting hobby of the 1980s, particularly highlighting the Chicago Cubs. Unlike vintage baseball cards, most modern cards are quite budget-friendly. The different sets will be much easier to find. Therefore, with thousands of cards in the mix, we will begin with the 80 Topps and conclude with the highly valuable 1985 Topps Mini Test. The pinnacle of this era was marked by the Sandberg Rookie of the Year in 1983.


Sunday, February 19, 2023

1985 Kitty Clover Potato Chip Discs Cubs Checklist

Number of Cards

20 disks in the Kitty Clover collection included 2 Cubs players.

Size of Cards

The size of the disks are 2 3/4"

Basic Features

Kitty Clover potato chip products are single-packaged and mainly available in the Omaha area. According to informed sources, very few sets were produced for this issue; most didn't survive, so this is somewhat rare. This MSA-produced set appears to have served as a test run for the Royals and Cardinals teams' releases the following year (1986). As is common for MSA sets, all of the team insignias have been airbrushed away (which is explained below). The majority of MSA releases were in partnership with the food industry. The cards in this set's proof square edition are worth twice as much as the disks' pricing. The squares in the 1985 issues of KAS and Kitty Clover were from uncut production sheets. In 1985, there was no mail-in promotion for them.

Major League Baseball Players Association ("MLBPA") players' unions gave them permission to use their images, but MSA (Michael Schechter Associates) decided to keep costs down by not getting licenses from the leagues, which is why team logos have been airbrushed out.

To prevent purchasing a false piece of history, always get a professionally graded card from a recognized provider. In the future, graded cards will be significantly more valuable.

Chicago Cubs Kitty Clover Potato Chip Discs Checklist


Number Player
n/a Ryne Sandberg
n/a Rick Sutcliffe


Square versions are far more difficult to come by than disks: