Texas Man Gets Prize From Baseball Card 6 Decades After Contest

By THC Staff | September 23, 2016

 

Grand Prairie resident Darwin Day, 70, recently lost his brother to cancer and was left to clean out his home. Among his late brother’s knicknacks, he found three-ring binders full of old baseball cards. While looking through the cards that brought back many memories, Day found one for a contest by Bazooka.

The contest was to guess the scores of two games on July 19, 1957, and include five Bazooka wrappers. It was due by July 11th, but they didn’t specify what year. According to the New York Times, the winner could receive such “swell prizes” as “a Gilbert #12062 chemistry lab, a Stellar 600 power microscope or a Spalding fielder’s glove.”

While Day was grieving, he thought about how much his brother would have appreciated a good laugh from sending in the contest form decades later, so he did it. Incredibly, Topps executive Tony Jacob received the contest form, and decided to honor it! He sent Day “a pillow and T-shirt with the Bazooka logo, boxes of gum and a black Louisville Slugger glove with tan stitching.”

Darwin Day laughingly told the New York Times that he’s happy the story is making news so something other than “Charles Darwin Day” comes up when he googles his name.