Description

1976 Hostess is a 150-card set printed on the sides of boxes of various brands of Hostess snack cakes. The three-card panels (which 7 3/4" X 3 1/4") were designed to be cut-up into individual 2 1/4" X 3 1/4" cards. A custom album was available via mail order.

This set contains a rookie-year card of Dennis Eckersley.

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Base Set

1 Fred Lynn
2 Joe Morgan
3 Phil Niekro
4 Gaylord Perry
5 Bob Watson
6 Bill Freehan
7 Lou Brock
8 Al Fitzmorris
9 Rennie Stennett
10 Tony Oliva
11 Robin Yount
12 Rick Manning
13 Bob Grich
14 Terry Forster
15 Dave Kingman
16 Thurman Munson
17 Rick Reuschel
18 Bobby Bonds
19 Steve Garvey
20 Vida Blue
21 Dave Rader
22 Johnny Bench
23 Luis Tiant
24 Darrell Evans
25 Larry Dierker
26 Willie Horton
27 John Ellis
28 Al Cowens
29 Jerry Reuss
30 Reggie Smith
31 Bobby Darwin
32 Fritz Peterson
33 Rod Carew
34 Carlos May
35 Tom Seaver
36 Brooks Robinson
37 Jose Cardenal
38 Ron Blomberg
39 Leroy Stanton
40 Dave Cash
41 John Montefusco
42 Bob Tolan
43 Carl Morton
44 Rick Burleson
45 Don Gullett
46 Vern Ruhle
47 Cesar Cedeno
48 Toby Harrah
49 Willie Stargell
50 Al Hrabosky
51 Amos Otis
52 Bud Harrelson
53 Jim Hughes
54 George Scott
55 Mike Vail
56 Jim Palmer
57 Jorge Orta
58 Chris Chambliss
59 Dave Chalk
60 Ray Burris
61 Bert Campaneris
62 Gary Carter
63 Ron Cey
64 Carlton Fisk
65 Marty Perez
66 Pete Rose
67 Roger Metzger
68 Jim Sundberg
69 Ron LeFlore
70 Ted Sizemore
71 Steve Busby
72 Manny Sanguillen
73 Larry Hisle
74 Pete Broberg
75 Boog Powell
76 Ken Singleton
77 Goose Gossage
78 Jerry Grote
79 Nolan Ryan
80 Rick Monday
81 Graig Nettles
82 Chris Speier
83 Dave Winfield
84 Mike Schmidt
85 Buzz Capra
86 Tony Perez
87 Dwight Evans
88 Mike Hargrove
89 Joe Coleman
90 Greg Gross
91 John Mayberry
92 John Candelaria
93 Bake McBride
94 Hank Aaron
95 Buddy Bell
96 Steve Braun
97 Jon Matlack
98 Lee May
99 Wilbur Wood
100 Bill Madlock
101 Frank Tanana
102 Mickey Rivers
103 Mike Ivie
104 Rollie Fingers
105 Davey Lopes
106 George Foster
107 Denny Doyle
108 Earl Williams
109 Tom Veryzer
110 J.R. Richard
111 Jeff Burroughs
112 Al Oliver
113 Ted Simmons
114 George Brett
115 Frank Duffy
116 Bert Blyleven
117 Darrell Porter
118 Don Baylor
119 Bucky Dent
120 Felix Millan
121 Mike Cuellar
122 Gene Tenace
123 Bobby Murcer
124 Willie McCovey
125 Greg Luzinski
126 Larry Parrish
127 Jim Rice
128 Dave Concepcion
129 Jim Wynn
130 Tom Grieve
131 Mike Cosgrove
132 Dan Meyer
133 Dave Parker
134 Don Kessinger
135 Hal McRae
136 Don Money
137 Dennis Eckersley
138 Fergie Jenkins
139 Mike Torrez
140 Jerry Morales
141 Jim Hunter
142 Gary Matthews
143 Randy Jones
144 Mike Jorgensen
145 Larry Bowa
146 Reggie Jackson
147 Steve Yeager
148 Dave May
149 Carl Yastrzemski
150 Cesar Geronimo

Proofs

These nine additional cards were "proofed" by Topps, who designed the set under contract to Hostess, but never printed or produced.

151 Ferguson Jenkins

152 Mike Cuellar

153 Tom Murphy

154 Al Cowens

155 Barry Foote

156 Steve Carlton

157 Richie Zisk

158 Ken Holtzman

159 Cliff Johnson

Parallels

Twinkies

The Twinkie set is a partial-parallel of the first 60 cards in the Hostess set. Each card has a thick black bar running down its back side.

The set was issued in individually-wrapped Twinkies, and because the Twinkie was placed directly on the card, this set is very difficult to find in mint condition.