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Specs
Year: 1974
Title: Sugar Daddy Pro Faces
Size: 1 1/16″ by 2 3/4″
Number in Set: 25
Overview
These unique oddball cards were tiny in size for packaging purposes; they couldn’t be wider than the Nabisco Sugar Daddy (and, I believe, Sugar Moma) candy they were packaged with.
The set is one of the few true multi-sport sets of the era, with cards 1-10 being football players, 11-16 and 22 being hockey players, and cards 17-21 and 23-25 being basketball players.
People call the set the “Pro Faces” (besides the fact that PRO FACES is printed on the back) set since the front of each card has an enlarged head photo of the player on a smaller caricature-like body, similar to the 1938 Goudey Heads-Up set.
The back of each card has player information but was meant to be peeled and stuck on an 18” x 24” poster (I’m still looking for a 1974 Sugar Daddy Poster, I’ve only seen the three 1975 All-Star Posters) that was available through a mail-in offer mentioned on the back of the card. Nabisco produced the cards in two printings. The first has a 1973 copyright, and the second does not, though they were likely all released in 1974.
Example
Key Cards
Chet Walker is tough to find in good condition, but the key cards are Staubach, Lilly, Esposito, and Abdul-Jabbar.
Checklist
1 Roger Staubach
2 Floyd Little
3 Steve Owens
4 Roman Gabriel
5 Bobby Douglass
6 John Gilliam
7 Bob Lilly
8 John Brockington
9 Jim Plunkett
10 Greg Landry
11 Phil Esposito
12 Dennis Hull
13 Reg Fleming
14 Garry Unger
15 Derek Sanderson
16 Jerry Korab
17 Oscar Robertson
18 Spencer Haywood
19 Jo Jo White
20 Connie Hawkins
21 Nate Thurmond
22 Mickey Redmond
23 Chet Walker
24 Calvin Murphy
25 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar