[jakeinge]

I just bought a small hoard of NM 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976 Topps baseball from a guy I work with. (Let me know if you need any singles)

I asked him specifically about the 1973 set and the team checklists. He said where he lived in Red Wing, MN, the 73 set was issued in series and only wax packs were available in the area. He has a bunch of the team checklists. He seems to recall the high series cards only being available for a very short time, then the 74's moved in. He also remembered how happy him and his brothers were that the cards were all being issued in one series in 1974 so they could collect all of the Minnesota Twins players at once. It seems to be that if the 1973 set was available in one series in some areas (which certainly appears to be the case) then those areas were very limited.