1972 Topps Baseball High Numbers Pricing

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Gmoney328

I’m going to resurrect this thread. I was 2 years old in 1972, so I obviously don’t remember collecting these. I’ve read a few places that 526-787 were all released at the same time. So basically the last two series. Anyone remember if this was true, and if so, why would 659-787 have such a premium over 526-658?

I have a (probable) theoretical explanation.

As has been said, usually when people have a box full of 1972 Topps, there's a whole bunch of cards from all across the various series, but it stops dead with no high numbers, or just a scant few.

Since retailers would begin stocking their card areas with the newly-released football, basketball and hockey cards as the season waned (knocking baseball to the back burner), my thought is they may have ordered/received (for instance) a single box of the high series cards and would fill the semi-high series box (that was already on the shelf) with them as needed.

Something along those lines.

It would now be a single box containing multiple series (I have never gotten over the fact that "series" is a zero plural. I want it to sound pluralized like "serieses"!!), so in hindsight people might think they were both issued at the same time.