Does anyone know a single person who ever actually got a 1977 Lou Piniella in a Burger King Yankees 'pack' that year? You know, inside the restaurant? No one I know ever did, and as kids we got about a zillion BK cards that summer. We only found out Sweet Lou's card existed many years later.
Has an uncut Topps/BK sheet ever shown up? If someone truly does have 750 Piniellas (yowza!!), I have to believe maybe they were printed on their own (full sheets of Lou) much later in the run (with the intent of including them in BK packs) and piled up somewhere as the promotion died out. Perhaps the ones that are out there (I have a few), just found their way into collectors' hands via the back door? Of course, this is just idle speculation, but nothing regarding that card's scarcity seems to make any sense.
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