1972 Topps High Number Printing Question...

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Malibu39

If I might ask about High Numbers in general, were they really produced in smaller quantities or harder to obtain? or is it a myth that gives fodder to people who want to sell them for more than Lower Numbers?

It's definitely a reality for sure. As the baseball season wound down that year and kids got ready to return to school, the natural evolution was to start craving the new football, basketball and hockey cards as those seasons dawned. Retailers would move the baseball card boxes to the storeroom to make room for the other sports. Combine that with Topps producing less of that final series, and you have many, many fewer highs than their lower number counterparts. When I was younger and looking at my friends collections of really old cards, most of the time their 1972 piles stopped at #656. No high numbers at all.