I've covered all the past years but two: 1960 and 1965. I only have a weird angle shot for the 1960 edition, which was the second banquet:
Not the best shot but it shows the trophy in great detail.
Our last missing piece is the 1965 version and it's a beauty, if slightly cut off in this scan I nicked from 4192cards.com.
The interior is fairly typical:
As noted in a previous post, these banquets turned into the Baseball Achievement Awards in 1967 and resulted in a much smaller (and cheaper) program being distributed. They still have the dinner every year from what I can tell and this will be the 55th year the rookie awards have been handed out.
Now the most famous banquet program in 1964's as Topps released a boxed card set that year. 36 oversized (3" x 5 1/4") cards came in a real snazzy foil enhanced slipcase and now go for quite impressive sums. However, Topps also printed a program that year, it's just smaller than the other rookie banquet programs and fits in the slipcase that held the cards:
It is said the interior matches the card set with one exception - Luis Tiant, the Topps Minor League Player of the year (card 34A). I don't know if this is true or not so if anyone has the skinny, drop me a line.
Here is the slipcase for comparison:
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I'm always hoping one of these falls in my lap somehow
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