I never had problems getting high numbers of any Topps baseball in Minnesota, although I was too young in 1966-67 to notice.
It is of course possible that some remaining boxes of lower numbered cards were filled with high-numbered packs to make them look full, but I doubt this was prevalent. Where I'm from the stores would not order the next series until the priors were sold-- I remember distinctly and painfully having to wait for the current stock to sell out. Only when it was getting down to the very end of current supplies would the store order more, and a time or two I recall there being delays when we had no cards at all. So while there could be some overlap to fill maybe one or two half-filled boxes on the shelves with newly arrived high-numbered packs, I really doubt it happened very often, at least in southern MN.
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