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[JollyElm]

Suh-weet!!!!!!!

[Troy Kirk]

Great thread, thanks Darren for posting all those update cards together, great seeing them. I just really love the artwork and the colors on those Laughlin World Series cards.

[Rickyy]

Great thread. We should all have a few Fleer cards in our collections... I have few and always enjoyed them!

Ricky Y

[laughlinfan]

I always thought the players on the 1975 cards were Fisk and Bench, with of course some artistic license to make them both lefty hitters to avoid any allegation that they were using active players in the set!

Dug out my uncut sheet from the 1978 issue - both versions of the 1974, 1975 and 1977 WS cards on the sheet share the same registration issues that Elm discussed. I agree - it was probably a single print run with 1 sheet image, and all are the same. If I get ambitious (and lucky), I might be able to share what these cards should have looked like if the QC guy had brought his glasses to work that day!

[JollyElm]

That's fascinating. I was under the impression that the update cards were available via Good Humor trucks in 1978 by their lonesome...but since the entire set was reprinted and released together, that means you didn't automatically receive one of the new additions when you grabbed up the most awesome thing on the planet, ice cream, that summer? An argument could be made that it makes the cherished update cards even tougher to come by, since kids didn't undoubtedly walk away with one of the 1971-1977 beauties every time they ran to the truck. Nope, they had the very same chance of getting a, say, 1911, 1938 or 1953 card as they did a 1971 Clemente. Very interesting indeed.

[laughlinfan]

What I have had to give up on the people side of socializing has allowed me to have some happy reunions with some of my collectibles that I haven't dug out and looked at in years! This is the original paste up panel that was used by Fleer for the back of the 7 new cards. More to come!

[ALBB]

Now thats a very cool piece !