1979 Topps Unopened Pack

[xplainer]

OK. 75-20. Going to open and post video of it. Never done that before, but I'll do it for NET 54 folks.
I'll post link here.
Thanks. It was fun.

EDIT: OK, I opened it and recorded it. But not going to the trouble of posting it. The best card was a Catfish Hunter OC. All the cards had good edges and corners. The printing OC was the issue with all the cards. Nothing major but Catfish. The OC was incredible on all the cards. As a kid, I never noticed that. I was 16 in 1979. LOL.

And, yes. The gum just dissolves in your mouth. No need to chew. LOL.

Thanks everyone.

[brass_rat]

Thanks for the update! Glad you had some fun with your gift!

The oldest I've gone on gum is 28 years...opened a bunch of 1987 packs with my nephew over Thanksgiving. Even that gum was brittle and turned to dust as I tried to chew.

Cheers,
Steve

[xplainer]

Originally Posted by brass_rat

Thanks for the update! Glad you had some fun with your gift!

The oldest I've gone on gum is 28 years...opened a bunch of 1987 packs with my nephew over Thanksgiving. Even that gum was brittle and turned to dust as I tried to chew.

Cheers,
Steve

Yeah Steve.
No Ozzie, but it was fun.You never know. Thanks buddy.

[pokerplyr80]

Glad you decided to open it. Since it was a Christmas gift it's good that you had fun with it. Like Peter I don't see the point in collecting unopened packs. I love opening stuff, especially when you have a chance for a big hit. As you can tell from my id though I like to gamble.

[ZachS]

Originally Posted by xplainer

The best card was a Catfish Hunter OC. All the cards had good edges and corners. The printing OC was the issue with all the cards. Nothing major but Catfish.

Leave it sealed...

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ZachS

Leave it sealed...

Me- He's dead....

You- Call an ambulance



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[xplainer]

Let's put this baby to bed. Here are the cards. Please note, my scanner cuts off the bottom a little if I don't have them a CardSaver or top loader. For this, I didn't bother.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by xplainer

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The stick of gum (if I am correctly guessing what this is an image of) kind of looks like a blank-backed Pre-War card to me...perhaps an OJ that an angry spouse cut in two with a pair of scissors.

[obcbobd]

In 1970 an older kid (I was 8, he was ~12) in the neighborhood gave me 20 cents to buy two packs of baseball cards. He said I could keep one pack and he the other. However, if I opened either of the packs, he would take the best 10 cards and leave me with the rejects. I made it about 100 feet from the store, and about 300 feet from my friends house before I opened the cards. How someone** could have an unopened pack of cards for 30+ years I could never understand.


** I reaise this is not the case with the OP

[iwantitiwinit]

Gosh Neikro looks like a little kid and I think he was 34 in 1979 and NO WAY am I taking a bite of that gum. No way no how.

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by obcbobd

In 1970 an older kid (I was 8, he was ~12) in the neighborhood gave me 20 cents to buy two packs of baseball cards. He said I could keep one pack and he the other. However, if I opened either of the packs, he would take the best 10 cards and leave me with the rejects. I made it about 100 feet from the store, and about 300 feet from my friends house before I opened the cards. How someone** could have an unopened pack of cards for 30+ years I could never understand.

I still have a 1978 Topps unopened pack that I saved back then (I was 12) and have kept all these years. I put it on a shelf in my closet until I went away to college, then put it with my baseball cards. I also have a ton of 1979 Topps baseball wrappers that I saved.

[baztacula]

Originally Posted by xplainer

Let's put this baby to bed. Here are the cards. Please note, my scanner cuts off the bottom a little if I don't have them a CardSaver or top loader. For this, I didn't bother.

What a successful pack. Two current Tigers (Parrish and Glynn), a former Tiger (Niekro), a future Tiger's rookie card (Lopez) and a sibling of a Tiger (Tom Underwood, brother of Pat). Nicely done!

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by Leon

Me- He's dead....

You- Call an ambulance



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[Jayworld]

LOVE those late 1970s uniforms! The red home pinstripes of the Braves, the "tequila sunrise" Astros, powder blues of the Blue Jays and Cardinals, the Rangers with the wide pant stripes and henley pullover (those are the BEST Texas Rangers uniforms, hands down, in my opinion). Lots of pullover jerseys, form fitting uniforms, and the best part; stirrups!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Jayworld

LOVE those late 1970s uniforms! The red home pinstripes of the Braves, the "tequila sunrise" Astros, powder blues of the Blue Jays and Cardinals, the Rangers with the wide pant stripes and henley pullover (those are the BEST Texas Rangers uniforms, hands down, in my opinion). Lots of pullover jerseys, form fitting uniforms, and the best part; stirrups!

The 1970s had some great designs. I like 72 the best. And I can absolutely remember the taste and smell of the gum from the packages.. .with all of that powdered sugar? on them.......or whatever it was.......The gum was good back then, but the same gum today...not as much.