1959 Bazooka Football Cards
There are eighteen cards in the 1959 Bazooka football card set, plus one variation: a Charley Conerly error card that says he is with the Baltimore Colts. The cards were printed on the bottom of boxes of Bazooka bubble gum, and they were cut by hand from the box. The set contains at least one player from each of 1959's twelve NFL teams. The cards are about five inches tall, and their backs are blank.
Another error card in the set was not corrected: on Woodley Lewis's card, his name is spelled "Woody." Topps (who made Bazooka gum) misspelled Lewis's name on his 1958 and 1959 Topps cards, too.
A big thanks to Mike Ford for providing the images for the Bazooka set.
To see a large picture of any card, pick the small picture or the card title.
| Picture | Set | # | Card | Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Est. NM Value (?) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 Bazooka | 1 | Alan Ameche | Baltimore Colts | fullback | Wisconsin | College Hall of Fame 1975, Heisman Trophy 1954 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 2 | Jon Arnett | Los Angeles Rams | halfback | USC | College Hall of Fame 2001 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 3 | Jim Brown | Cleveland Browns | fullback | Syracuse | Browns Ring of Honor 2010, College Hall of Fame 1995, Hall of Fame 1971 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 4 | Rick Casares | Chicago Bears | fullback | Florida | ||||
| 1959 Bazooka | 5cor | Charley Conerly | New York Giants | quarterback | Mississippi | College Hall of Fame 1966, Giants Ring of Honor 2010 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 5err | Charley Conerly | New York Giants | quarterback | Mississippi | College Hall of Fame 1966, Giants Ring of Honor 2010 | Error: team says Baltimore Colts | ||
| 1959 Bazooka | 6 | Howard Ferguson | Green Bay Packers | halfback | none | Packers Hall of Fame 1974 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 7 | Frank Gifford | New York Giants | halfback | USC | College Hall of Fame 1975, Hall of Fame 1977 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 8 | Lou Groza | Cleveland Browns | tackle, kicker | Ohio State | Browns Ring of Honor 2010, Hall of Fame 1974 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 9 | Bobby Layne | Pittsburgh Steelers | quarterback | Texas | College Hall of Fame 1968, Hall of Fame 1967 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 10 | Eddie LeBaron | Washington Redskins | quarterback | Pacific | College Hall of Fame 1980, Redskins Ring of Fame | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 11 | Woodley Lewis | Chicago Cardinals | end | Los Angeles City, Oregon | Error: name misspelled Woody | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 12 | Ollie Matson | Los Angeles Rams | fullback, defensive back | San Francisco | Cardinals Ring of Honor 2006, College Hall of Fame 1976, Eagles Honor Roll 1987, Hall of Fame 1972 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 13 | Joe Perry | San Francisco 49ers | fullback | Compton Community College | Hall of Fame 1969, 49ers Hall of Fame 2009 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 14 | Pete Retzlaff | Philadelphia Eagles | end | South Dakota State | Eagles Honor Roll 1989 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 15 | Tobin Rote | Detroit Lions | quarterback | Rice | Packers Hall of Fame 1974 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 16 | Y.A. Tittle | San Francisco 49ers | quarterback | LSU | Giants Ring of Honor 2010, Hall of Fame 1971, 49ers Hall of Fame 2009 | |||
| 1959 Bazooka | 17 | Tom Tracy | Pittsburgh Steelers | halfback | Tennessee | ||||
| 1959 Bazooka | 18 | John Unitas | Baltimore Colts | quarterback | Louisville | Hall of Fame 1979 |

