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Posted By: Dave Hornish

Al-is there Topps or TCG mentioned anywhere on the packaging? I do not believe there is and I am slowly coming to the conclusion Topps sold their excess stock to a third party who distributed the game/all star cards this way. Not 100% certain but I know they did this with their '52 Baseball cards (sell in bulk to a third party) and they likely also did it for the "Christmas" Rak Paks you see sometimes.

I think all five '51 sets are related and Topps intended for there to be two complete sets of all star standups plus a full complement of team cards. When that became problematic, i.e. not all teams or all stars could be produced, they pulled the plug while the blue backs were in production. This is a theory but it makes sense to me the more I look at it (barring any evidence I don't have, obviously).