ah, the memories
Thanks for posting that old thread Al. The '73s were all printed by the end of 1972, and the cards were all issued at once in parts of the country.
I see there's a youtube video that shows a "all in one series" box being opened, and it corroborates a couple of points I made in the old thread. At least I hope it does-- I didn't watch the whole video but only the first handful of packs being opened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbbb2iowzGo&t=409s
As you can see, there do not appear to be any blue checklists inserted in the packs. They must have been mail order only for those of us who didn't get the cards in series. Also, cards from multiple if not every series are represented in each pack--the numbers are read aloud as the packs are opened and contents read. So the box doesn't simply contain packs from each series, which I always doubted anyway, but instead the entire set was packaged at once and inserted randomly in each pack, without regard to any "series". Quite simply, for some of us there was no reason to consider a high number to be any more difficult than any other card.
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