1972 Topps Baseball High Numbers Pricing

[deweyinthehall]

I was fortunate to complete my set back in 1992 or so and I think most of the NM Hi's were between $2 and $3 each for commons. The Dempsey was one of the last 2 or 3 I needed (last one was Pagan IA) and I think the guy charged me maybe 6 or 7 bucks THEN. Right now I'm starting a 1966 set, so it more than evens out in the long-run...

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

I was fortunate to complete my set back in 1992 or so and I think most of the NM Hi's were between $2 and $3 each for commons. The Dempsey was one of the last 2 or 3 I needed (last one was Pagan IA) and I think the guy charged me maybe 6 or 7 bucks THEN. Right now I'm starting a 1966 set, so it more than evens out in the long-run...

Even if '72 highs feel expensive, I have a feeling they will never touch the level of insanity that '67 now has achieved. Those high number cards might be the end of me. $100 and up for VG copies of players in some cases you have never heard of. Oh, and then there are those two very popular horizontal rookie cards...

[rjackson44]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Even if '72 highs feel expensive, I have a feeling they will never touch the level of insanity that '67 now has achieved. Those high number cards might be the end of me. $100 and up for VG copies of players in some cases you have never heard of. Oh, and then there are those two very popular horizontal rookie cards...

hi john omg agree

[Gmoney328]

I’m going to resurrect this thread. I was 2 years old in 1972, so I obviously don’t remember collecting these. I’ve read a few places that 526-787 were all released at the same time. So basically the last two series. Anyone remember if this was true, and if so, why would 659-787 have such a premium over 526-658?

[Exhibitman]

I dunno that's accurate. I recall never seeing a high # in a kid's collection until a few years later when my aunt found one at a garage sale and bought it for me. They just weren't around us kids in NYC or LA.

[ALBB]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I dunno that's accurate. I recall never seeing a high # in a kid's collection until a few years later when my aunt found one at a garage sale and bought it for me. They just weren't around us kids in NYC or LA.

I agree with that...Ive been lucky to look at a few " friend discovers his childhood cards " collections....and in almost all cases...few or no high #s

[John1941]

My dad collected the 1972s in Westchester, a suburb of NYC, and he has about three dozen high numbers out of a total of 1100 1972 cards bought from packs.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I dunno that's accurate. I recall never seeing a high # in a kid's collection until a few years later when my aunt found one at a garage sale and bought it for me. They just weren't around us kids in NYC or LA.

I never saw them in LA either. I bought my 5th and 6th series from Card Collectors Company in 1974.

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Gmoney328

I’m going to resurrect this thread. I was 2 years old in 1972, so I obviously don’t remember collecting these. I’ve read a few places that 526-787 were all released at the same time. So basically the last two series. Anyone remember if this was true, and if so, why would 659-787 have such a premium over 526-658?

I have a (probable) theoretical explanation.

As has been said, usually when people have a box full of 1972 Topps, there's a whole bunch of cards from all across the various series, but it stops dead with no high numbers, or just a scant few.

Since retailers would begin stocking their card areas with the newly-released football, basketball and hockey cards as the season waned (knocking baseball to the back burner), my thought is they may have ordered/received (for instance) a single box of the high series cards and would fill the semi-high series box (that was already on the shelf) with them as needed.

Something along those lines.

It would now be a single box containing multiple series (I have never gotten over the fact that "series" is a zero plural. I want it to sound pluralized like "serieses"!!), so in hindsight people might think they were both issued at the same time.

[mikemb]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

I have a (probable) theoretical explanation.

As has been said, usually when people have a box full of 1972 Topps, there's a whole bunch of cards from all across the various series, but it stops dead with no high numbers, or just a scant few.

Since retailers would begin stocking their card areas with the newly-released football, basketball and hockey cards as the season waned (knocking baseball to the back burner), my thought is they may have ordered/received (for instance) a single box of the high series cards[B][B][B][B][B][B] and would fill the semi-high series box (that was already on the shelf) with them as needed.]

Something along those lines.

It would now be a single box containing multiple series (I have never gotten over the fact that "series" is a zero plural. I want it to sound pluralized like "serieses"!!), so in hindsight people might think they were both issued at the same time.

I worked in a newspaper, card, candy etc. store in my hometown from 1972 through 1979 during my high school and college years. That was exactly what we did with all the candy, including baseball cards. So if the box had say 15 packs in it, I would take some from a new box to "plush it up" as my boss would say. After 1973 cards were no longer issued in series so it did not make much difference then.

Mike

[toppcat]

Going from very old memory at this point, I grew up in Central Nassau County on Long Island, about 30 miles from NYC. By the end of summer starting in 1970, I believe I bought the majority of my high number wax packs from the Colonial Maid ice cream truck each year. I never had an issue getting high numbers and 1970 is the first year I really bought cards as a kid. Colonial Maid had the goods back then, especially candy and gum items. I bought hundreds of 1973 Wacky Packages from our neighborhood's truck as well.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by mikemb

I worked in a newspaper, card, candy etc. store in my hometown from 1972 through 1979 during my high school and college years. That was exactly what we did with all the candy, including baseball cards. So if the box had say 15 packs in it, I would take some from a new box to "plush it up" as my boss would say. After 1973 cards were no longer issued in series so it did not make much difference then.

Mike

Starting in 1968, my brother and I only bought full boxes. The stores we purchased from would carry both boxes and packs. So, we either had no cards from a series or all or most.