I bought my first cards in the spring of 1970. I'll never forget peeling open that first pack, and unfolding a poster of Ollie Brown. I seem to recall the posters disappeared after the second series. In California, we never saw anything past the 4th series that summer. The 2nd series was around only briefly. The 3rd and 4th series cards were everywhere, along with those scratch-offs. My family spent a month in Michigan that summer, where the 5th and 6th series were available, and we saw the comic books for the first time. It was August in upper Michigan, and the 1970 Topps Super cards were available there, too. I went from having no cards of Willie Mays to having two of them, which was a really big deal at the time. I can still picture peeling back the wrapper on that Topps Super pack and seeing Willie smiling back at me. Later, in December, the 7th series cards showed up in a vending machine in California, which I poured many coins into to get the elusive Johnny Bench ...
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