Finally got a mini 1975 Topps card

[Steve D]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

I picked up a mini Winny this weekend.

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These cards were nowhere to be found in NY in 1975, and my friends and I had no idea this set even existed until many, many years later. Now that I'm out in California, these suckers are extremely easy to find. I've been told by quite a few people that in 1975 they were sold everywhere in these parts, just like 'regular' Topps cards.

I can verify that the 1975 minis were available in Southern California. I opened dozens of rack packs of them in 1975. My parents bought them for me mainly at a Long's Drug Store in San Diego. I sat at our kitchen table and had stacks of minis all over it I ultimately completed the set with the addition of some cards bought at some local shows in the late 1970s.

Steve

[autograf]

Have mini set, regular set and OPC set from 1975. Love the mini's. Only remember them from shows in or post-1975. Never made it to KY. Have a pack in my pack collection too............

[ALR-bishop]

Here is the CU "mini" maximus thread

https://forums.collectors.com/discus...-thread#latest

[steve B]

" Topps cards smaller than they had ever been made before"

That's about as far as I got. Hard to take it seriously after that.

I like the minis, I have about half the set, maybe a bit more. We had them briefly in western Mass., so I had a few from packs.

[Baseballcrazy62]

I was 13 years old in 1975. My family took a trip to the Wisconsin Dells and we stopped at Larry Fritsch's warehouse. It was like Disneyland to me. He let me and my dad hold the T206 Wagner card card that he pulled out of his safe. He couldn't have been nicer to us. He told my dad he was sending a semi trailer to Michigan to buy as many cases of Minis as he could find. When we got home my dad took me to the candy warehouse and he bought a case of Minis and we took them home and broke them into sets. I still have the empty case and all the boxes and kept every single card and still have them today. One my my best memories of time spent with my dad. He is 94 years old and we still talk about those minis 42 years later. And that is why I love this hobby!! Thanks dad.

[bobsbbcards]

Originally Posted by Baseballcrazy62

One my my best memories of time spent with my dad. He is 94 years old and we still talk about those minis 42 years later. And that is why I love this hobby!! Thanks dad.

Nice story.