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Originally Posted by sb1
We had Duckwalls, IGA and a couple of other locally owned grocery stores that all had sports and non-sports. Even the concession stand at the local baseball diamond had Topps packs. Remember getting the 69 decals and sticking them on the cards and the bleachers. We could only tell when the next series came out by the checklist and new faces/numbers, but it was off to the races buying and marking that box in, when I got the whole row done I marked it top to bottom. in 1969 there were still nickel packs, so when I got a dollar from my grandmother on the way out the store I went to town.....So many Al McBean's in the first series!
And small world...… we played Wamego the first Football game of the season for many, many years.
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Would that be Council Grove?