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Old 03-05-2014, 04:46 PM
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Great article Howie-what a fantastic read!
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Old 03-05-2014, 07:57 PM
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Great article Howie-what a fantastic read!
I agree Howie, would love to see anything similar on any other production years. Thanks for sharing.
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Old 03-05-2014, 08:15 PM
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Wow...that article from Howie was AWESOME. Just a year ago I put that set together, so I know it pretty intimately, and to read that kind of detail and thought was mind boggling. I constantly try to google articles on the sets I work on, that by far was the coolest.


Howie...if you ever feel like posting any more of those old articles, I'll ship you a case of beer! Thanks...


I don't have any Blue Checklists...but for some reason I have 15-20 of the Red Checklists from 1974. I really have no idea how I got them, or anything about them. Do they have any value? Do the Blues?
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Old 03-05-2014, 08:26 PM
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I'm not sure why, but it is "stuck in my craw" that I heard at one point the team checklists came only in rack packs, much akin to the All Star glossies that came in rack packs later on. Granted I wasn't born until 1979, it would make sense to include the team checklists as an insert in rack packs ONLY containing all series. I have no evidence to back this, it's just a hunch that would also happen to make some sense.

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I remember reading somewhere that the blue checklists were offered as complete sheets on one of the Topps wrappers. The only ones I have ever had or seen where I grew up, were hand torn from a sheet. And I was happy to get them!
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For some reason I always remember the 1973 Series as being issued all at once. I grew up on Long Island and just seem to remember that the whole set was issued at the same time. On the Rusty Staub comment there is definitely more to the story as he was an all star at the time even though he missed most of 1972 with an injury.
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Old 03-05-2014, 09:34 PM
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John, make it Yuengling or Shiner Bock and you have a deal! Just kidding. It was my pleasure to share the article. I suspect that I won't find similar in the archives but I promise to take a look. Most of the hobby publications back then focused on finding unreported additions to older sets rather than addressing the latest Topps set. As a side note, I believe I purchased my 1973 Blue checklist set directly from Mr. Haber at the first card show ever held in Manhattan. Unfortunately, I used bad teenage judgment in passing on the eight card 1972 Test Set of 1953 style cards that were on the same table along with 1969 Super singles!
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I forgot to say that 73 was the last set of my "youth" before I realized a few years later I wanted to continue colletcting.

In Saddle Brook NJ at Sam's Stationery, the packs were by series. I remember the 1st series packs and all the blank backs I pulled. My dad, who was a vest pocket stamp and coin dealer at one time, told me to go buy more so I did. I had like 30 blank backs at that time.
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