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Specs
Year: 1961
Title: York Peanut Butter Yellow Backs
Size: 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
Number in Set: 42
Overview
The 1961 York Peanut Butter Yellow Backs set is a pretty popular food release that features players from the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. The 42 octagonal-shaped cards were found under the lids of York Peanut Butter or attached to packages of York Salted Nuts. Depending on the jar size, three to six cards would be present.
The cards feature a photo of the player with a colorful background on the front, and the backs are yellow (of course) with black text. The backs feature typical biographical information, lifetime records, a note from the sponsor that collectors who run across the cards could find more attached to York Peanut Butter and York Salted Nuts packages, and an offer to buy an album to save the cards in for 25 cents. The album was available as a send-in offer or at grocery stores.
There was also an “Album Promo” so collectors could order the album and the cards they didn’t have for one cent a piece.
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Key Cards
PSA has graded over 1100 1961-62 York Peanut Butter Yellow Backs, with Bobby Baun having the fewest graded copies with 18. However, Jacques Plante is the priciest card in the set, followed by Jean Beliveau and Dave Keon.
Checklist
1 Bobby Baun
2 Dick Duff
3 Frank Mahovlich
4 Gilles Tremblay
5 Dickie Moore
6 Don Marshall
7 Tim Horton
8 Johnny Bower
9 Allan Stanley
10 Jean Beliveau
11 Tom Johnson
12 Jean-Guy Talbot
13 Carl Brewer
14 Bob Pulford
15 Billy Harris
16 Bill Hicke
17 Claude Provost
18 Henri Richard
19 Bert Olmstead
20 Ron Stewart
21 Red Kelly
22 Toe Blake
23 Jacques Plante
24 Ralph Backstrom
25 Eddie Shack
26 Bob Nevin
27 Dave Keon
28 Bernie Geoffrion
29 Marcel Bonin
30 Phil Goyette
31 Larry Hillman
32 Larry Keenan
33 Al Arbour
34 J.C. Tremblay
35 Bobby Rousseau
36 Al MacNeil
37 George Armstrong
38 Punch Imlach
39 King Clancy
40 Lou Fontinato
41 Cesare Maniago
42 Jean Gauthier