1950 Scott's Potato Chips Minneapolis Lakers
The 1950 Scott's Potato Chips Minneapolis Lakers is arguably the greatest regional basketball set ever released. The Lakers won the 1949-50 NBA championship and the Potato Products Corporation honored this accomplishment by including one card in its boxes of potato chips and cheese potatoes.
The set marks the first cards with facsimile autographs and cartoon imagery. It contains 6 hall of famers including George Mikan in the same pose as his 1948 Bowman rookie card. Other HOFers in the set are Jim Pollard, Slater Martin, Vern Mikkelsen and coach John Kundla. The set also contains the first card of Bud Grant, a NFL hall of fame coach for the Minnesota Vikings. In total, there are thirteen 2-inch by 4 1/8-inch cards in the set, although there is a Minnesota season pass card that can be considered also part of the set. The cartoon images were drawn by the same artist, Alfred "Al" Papas, and around the same time. The autographs are facsimile and represent the first instance of this feature being used on a basketball card.
Pop are are low for all of its cards. There are only a total of 137 PSA-graded cards in the registry as of of November 2024.
The backs of the cards explain that children under 15 who presented 5 of the cards along with .25 cents could attend a game for free, and those with a complete set could also get a team photo.
Arnie Ferrin card
1950 Minneapolis Lakers season ticket was drawn by Al Papas, the same artist who drew the regional set. Back is blank.
The only known poster advertising this regional set features George Mikan in his 1948 Bowman pose.
One card came in every can or box.