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Originally Posted by familytoad

It took me 0.3 nanoseconds to think of George Alusik in 1963 Topps.
While that predates my pack opening (I was only 1 yr old), he's my poster man for common. Perhaps someone might do us a favor and post a pic?

For my pack opening years in the 70's, I must have gathered several dozen 1972 Cleo James cards. At least some of them turned out to have the color variation in the Cubs banner across the top and now I am rich beyond all imagination.

Great topic!

I also enjoyed the discussion about the pricing of near stars or memorable players from our youth. When I was a kid, I wanted Bernie Carbo and Bob Tolan and Garry Maddox cards. I wanted to get all the Bake McBrides and you can have Jim Ray Hart or Roy White all day. Lucky for us , (if we are still interested) common baseball cards are cheap and easy to acquire. For numerous reasons of course.

When I go thumbing through my set binders (I am close to a set run from 1953 to 1980, all in binders ) I enjoy reading the backs of the common cards or just remembering a player from back in the day as much as I want to see what page the Mantle, Mays, Bench or Ryan cards are on.