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Originally Posted by moeson
1974 Rack Packs, including the traded cards, were available well before summer in New York City. I used to buy racks from a toy wholesaler on the NYC lower east side. I remember being frustrated at the disproportionate number of traded cards when sorting opened packs to make sets.
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There were no traded cards in the boxes of 1974 Topps that I bought in April. They came much later, maybe before late June, but I don't know what you mean by "well before" because we are only talking about a 2 month window. There was definitely a significant amount of time where traded cards weren't in packs of 1974 Topps.
The Washington National League cards were definitely in the first printing of cards and replaced quickly with San Diego Padres cards. There were multiple printings of 1974 Topps. I believe that San Diego cards replaced Washington cards before the Traded Cards were added to the print run. So, there would have been at least 2 different print runs for Padres cards.