1979 topps baseball question

[vintage954]

does anyone know why cards in the 1979 topps set are improperly numbered? For example, I have a 1979 topps #8 Larry Bowa AS card. Originally this card was numbered 210, but not on mine. I have a bunch of them like this. I know burger king did a run but Bowa was numbered 15. Anyone?

[bnorth]

Can you post some pictures?

[vintage954]

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h272/acrophobiaaccord/DSC01184_zps565e9739.jpg (http://s66.photobucket.com/user/acrophobiaaccord/media/DSC01184_zps565e9739.jpg.html)

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h272/acrophobiaaccord/DSC01183_zpsd1b677e7.jpg (http://s66.photobucket.com/user/acrophobiaaccord/media/DSC01183_zpsd1b677e7.jpg.html)

[bnorth]

If the card on the left in both pictures are the same card you have what is known as a wrong back. They are fairly common. 1979 was a stellar year for Topps errors. I have blank fronts, blank backs, wrong backs, and even cards that have 1978 backs with 1979 fronts.

[vintage954]

Lol I guess that explains it then. Appreciate the help because it was driving me crazy

[PM770]

Your Bowa is the Burger King issue. The low number gives it away.

By the way there is a cool Pete Rose card with the Phillies in the Burger King issue. Different photo than the regular Topps but still with the All-Star designation.

[Rich Klein]

In my early years at Beckett, which occured more than a decade after the last Burger King set we got constant letters about numbering such as in the Bowa card.

Rich