Bazooka Gum just awarded a 70-year-old fan the prize from a 1957 Topps contest

Earlier this year, 70-year-old Grand Prairie, Texas, resident Darwin Day was cleaning out his house when he made a unique discovery: a complete collection of 1957-58 Topps baseball cards with a message on the back -- "Win these swell prizes in the 4th Bazooka baseball contest." 
The rules of the Bazooka baseball contest were simple enough. Contestants simply had to mail in the attached contest form with the correct final scores from two MLB games, and a lucky winner would take home one of three possible prizes: a chemistry lab, a microscope or a baseball glove. Those two final scores? The Milwaukee Braves' 3-1 win over the New York Giants and the Baltimore Orioles' 4-2 win over the Kansas City Athletics ... from July 19, 1957.
Then Day checked the fine print, and he noticed something odd: The contest didn't have an expiration date. That's when, as he told the Dallas Morning News, he came up with an idea.
"I was struck by the fact it didn't have a year listed on the card. It was a simpler time. You didn't need a team of lawyers to do everything back then."
So, he decided to send the contest form to Topps on a whim. Luckily, the Baseball/Confection Gods were smiling on him: Tony Jacobs, global general manager of Topps Confectionery Brands, opened a mysterious letter marked "Pls. deliver to Mr. Jacobs before July 11."
Day was in bed when he got the call: Topps had honored Day's victorious entry and rewarded him with his prize of choice -- the baseball glove, of course. "I nearly fell out of bed because I couldn't believe it and was laughing so hard," he said.
You can read Day's whole journey here, which included very nearly being stuck with a giant barrel of Bazooka gum in a grocery checkout line.