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bwvjones
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Joined: Jan 2017
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| Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:35 PM | |
Here's a link to a video about an interesting Topps "baseball" set from 1972:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57UNhsgKG_c
I don't see them listed here but the set sounds next to impossible to complete!
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bbcardz
Posts: 1,127
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| Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:53 PM | |
Interesting video! I'm wondering if those were the first Topps custom cards. I like that on the Topps site, you can still get custom cards made of yourself ($9.99 for 20 cards). These custom cards would also be cool prizes in future Topps contests.
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Bassbunny22
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Joined: Aug 2016
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| Tuesday, August 11, 2020 5:11 PM | |
Great video. I'm shocked any of those cards made it that long. And how much of a task it had to have been to obtain that many of them.
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Godzilla8you
Posts: 349
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| Tuesday, August 11, 2020 8:34 PM | |
Very interesting. There are two on ebay right now.
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garychap
Posts: 320
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| Tuesday, August 11, 2020 9:23 PM | |
Thats really cool. Surprised they havnt done it again to get more kids interested in there product.
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trauty
Posts: 228
Joined: Nov 2016
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| Tuesday, August 11, 2020 11:57 PM | |
I could have sworn I added the checklist for this a couple years ago but I guess I didn't. Here's a link to more info on this set:
http://keymancollectibles.com/cards/1971toppswinnerbaseball%20cards.htm
I know that more recently an uncut sheet was found. There were only 19 different cards on the sheet. Even though there were 25 winners apparently you had the option of taking a complete set of Topps baseball cards instead. Six people must've gone that route.
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Sportzcommish
Posts: 6,013
Joined: Oct 2016
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| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 6:15 AM | |
Thanks for sharing that video. Maybe one day the C2Cigars TCDB sets will garner as much on the auction block 50 years from now.
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kcjays
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| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 9:22 AM | |
I've never heard of these cards. Thanks for posting the video.
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captkirk42
Posts: 2,268
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| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 9:50 AM | |
Yes I had heard of them before.
I know they were talked about 2 or 3 years ago (maybe 4 or 5) and I also thought they had been added a few years back.Before that I'm not sure if I had known about the contest or not. I think I had seen a vague mention of them years before perhaps during the 1980s or 90s not sure about that though, just that I had seen a discussion about them a few years back on here (or maybe it was another card forum)
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Godzilla8you
Posts: 349
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| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 9:50 AM | |
It would be really cool if someone knows one of these people, or even better if they collect and are on this site.
Trade On!
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