1979 Topps Unopened Pack

[xplainer]

Let's put this baby to bed. Here are the cards. Please note, my scanner cuts off the bottom a little if I don't have them a CardSaver or top loader. For this, I didn't bother.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by xplainer

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The stick of gum (if I am correctly guessing what this is an image of) kind of looks like a blank-backed Pre-War card to me...perhaps an OJ that an angry spouse cut in two with a pair of scissors.

[obcbobd]

In 1970 an older kid (I was 8, he was ~12) in the neighborhood gave me 20 cents to buy two packs of baseball cards. He said I could keep one pack and he the other. However, if I opened either of the packs, he would take the best 10 cards and leave me with the rejects. I made it about 100 feet from the store, and about 300 feet from my friends house before I opened the cards. How someone** could have an unopened pack of cards for 30+ years I could never understand.


** I reaise this is not the case with the OP

[iwantitiwinit]

Gosh Neikro looks like a little kid and I think he was 34 in 1979 and NO WAY am I taking a bite of that gum. No way no how.

[sayhey24]

Who the heck is Lance Rautzhan???

Greg

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by obcbobd

In 1970 an older kid (I was 8, he was ~12) in the neighborhood gave me 20 cents to buy two packs of baseball cards. He said I could keep one pack and he the other. However, if I opened either of the packs, he would take the best 10 cards and leave me with the rejects. I made it about 100 feet from the store, and about 300 feet from my friends house before I opened the cards. How someone** could have an unopened pack of cards for 30+ years I could never understand.

I still have a 1978 Topps unopened pack that I saved back then (I was 12) and have kept all these years. I put it on a shelf in my closet until I went away to college, then put it with my baseball cards. I also have a ton of 1979 Topps baseball wrappers that I saved.

[sayhey24]

This inspired me to open my 1972 O-P-C pack. Got two Clementes and can't believe how sharp and crisp the cards are, especially the backs.
Wish i had another to open!

Greg

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by sayhey24

This inspired me to open my 1972 O-P-C pack. Got two Clementes and can't believe how sharp and crisp the cards are, especially the backs.
Wish i had another to open!

Greg

whats the other clemente?

[sayhey24]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

whats the other clemente?

I thought the card I flipped over was Clemente in action, but it's actually Dock Ellis!

Greg

[baztacula]

Originally Posted by xplainer

Let's put this baby to bed. Here are the cards. Please note, my scanner cuts off the bottom a little if I don't have them a CardSaver or top loader. For this, I didn't bother.

What a successful pack. Two current Tigers (Parrish and Glynn), a former Tiger (Niekro), a future Tiger's rookie card (Lopez) and a sibling of a Tiger (Tom Underwood, brother of Pat). Nicely done!