In order of closing date (bids as of Sunday evening PT):

Heritage Auctions (ending on May 15-17 (depending on the lot number))

⚾ 1975 Topps Steve Carlton #185 PSA 9 - $75

🏈 1957 Topps Frank Gifford #88 PSA 7 - $120

⚾ 1964 Topps Hank Aaron #300 PSA 6 - $130

REA (ending on May 17)

⚾ 1954 Bowman #65 Mickey Mantle SGC Authentic - $95

⚾ 1954 Red Man Tobacco #NL-25 Willie Mays PSA 5 - $95

⚾ 1969 Topps #260 Reggie Jackson Rookie PSA 6 - $100

The Collector Connection (ending on May 17)

Focuses on pre-war baseball cards

⚾ 1923 W515-1 #58 Eddie Collins PSA 1 (MC) - $34

⚾ 1935 Diamond Stars #30 Heinie Manush With “W” on Sleeve PSA 3 - $34

⚾ 1910 T206 Miller Huggins Portrait Piedmont 350/25 PSA 1.5 - $34

Collector Investor Auctions (ending on May 17)

⚾ 1968 Topps #150 Roberto Clemente PSA 6 - $39

⚾ 1965 Topps #250 Willie Mays PSA 5 - $42

⚾ 1964 Topps #125 Pete Rose PSA 4 - $50

Other active auctions:

Hunt Auctions (ends on May 19)

Sirius Sports Cards Auction (ends on May 21)

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I grew up in a house where my parents tried their best to avoid having too many sweets. Sure, I saw Fruit Loops, Cap’n Crunch and Count Chocula in the cereal aisle, but they wouldn’t see the inside of our kitchen.

The same can be said with Twinkies, Ho Hos and Ding Dongs, so while I was in prime sweets-eating age when Hostess started to put baseball cards on their family size snack cake packaging in 1975, I was none the wiser.

That’s why I was so psyched when, after buying a collection last year, I discovered that it included over 100 Hostess cards, including a few from the initial 1975 set.

The 1975 set had 150 cards and featured 31 Hall of Famers, including Robin Yount’s rookie card (and according to this article, a George Brett card was also considered). There were also a few errors, including Bill Madlock listed as a pitcher and Burt Hooton’s name misspelled “Bert Hooten.”

The cards came in panels of three on the packaging, which thus meant a lot of hand-cutting adventures for the kids who didn’t recruit their parents (see below).

The cards were available on a variety of Hostess products, and specific cards were associated with specific products. That meant cards like Yount, Hank Aaron, Johnny Bench and Reggie Jackson are harder to come by, appearing on packages of the less-popular snacks.

Bob Gibson’s card, meanwhile, was part of a panel on the Ho Hos package. That package was smaller than the ones for the other treats, and that meant the card panels (the same size across all packaging) were more likely to be creased.

Amazingly, among the 8,658 cards from the 1975 Hostess set in the PSA database, 2,340 (or 27%) of them are graded gem mint, and another 3,280 are a mint 9. Based on a quick search on the PSA website, the highest individual card sale was for a Nolan Ryan PSA 10 on April 26, 2026, for $1,009.

There’s also a separate set specific to Twinkies. There were 60 cards total, distributed in select West Coast markets, and single cards came in the packages themselves. The numbering was … a bit off. It started 1-36, while the final 24 came in between numbers 40 and 136. You can tell the difference between this set and the regular Hostess set because the cards in the Twinkies set have black bars at the top and bottom of the back of the cards.

Do you have any of these cards? If so, what’s your favorite?