In 1976 Mark Fidrych was the talk of the town in Detroit, but he had no card in the '76 set - not even a tiny rookie card. So when the '77 set came out every kid was after the Fidrych card. At one point I think I had about 6 of them and you could have traded it for any card you wanted - but no one did.
That was also the first year we discovered the candy distributor in our city. It was in a very nondescript building that sold boxes of candy to stores like 7-11. You could go in there and buy an entire box of baseball cards. That was the most amazing thing to me. My buddy and I would split the cost and divide the packs up between us - it was way cheaper than buying packs from the store. I also remember my mom getting really mad at me when she saw how much the box cost.
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