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08-27-2018, 07:59 AM
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Kansas
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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08-27-2018, 10:24 AM
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The late 60's and through the 70's I bought a lot of packs from a corner grocery/liquor store called Sam and Sally's in Alhambra Calif. To the best of my recollection, neither my friends nor I realized that the cards were released by series...we should have known, but the lightbulb just never went on. It's funny remembering back to 74 when my friend Jeff and I were trying to get the whole set, and both needed Stargell. We bought a heck of a lot of packs, but never found him. I guess knowing he was in the first series would have helped us quite a bit. LOL
One other favorite moment was in the mid 70's, when our local "major" grocery store started carrying baseball wax. For some reason they would sell them for 5 cents instead of 10. Nothing better for a kid than to be able to buy twice as much!!
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08-27-2018, 10:51 AM
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At the main intersection right out of our subdivision, there was a 7-11 on one corner and a Stop n Go on the other. Across the street there was a strip mall with a grocery store and drug store. So, we had lots of options. We would go in every so often and buy a pack and if it was a new series, a whole box and then trade to finish out the series. 1967 7th series was the only one that we never got. 1969 6th series and 1970 & 1971 7th series were in shorter supply. Everything else was pretty plentiful.
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08-27-2018, 08:19 PM
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Ordered from I believe an ad in The Sporting News ( probably Card Collectors Company in NY ). Got Series by Series all summer from 1958-1962. Also bought packs and had a lot of duplicates. Bought a few packs in 1963 and then The Beatles came in 1964 and I collected all their cards and no more baseball cards after that. If you lived in 1964 you understand how baseball could be replaced by The Beatles if you were a teenager.
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#5
08-27-2018, 08:37 PM
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Quote:
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My new found obsession the t206!
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08-28-2018, 08:21 AM
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Sorry for the off topic but thought you guys might like this. Was flipping through channels this morning and on M.E. TV there was an episode of Leave it to Beaver on. Wally had a new job at the soda fountain and Beaver and Whitey and one of his other friends (can't remember name) came in for a milkshake. They assumed Wally would give it to them free but he asked for payment and Whitey reached in his pocket and threw out about a half dozen 1959's. One of the cards was the Words of Wisdom with Stengel. Thought that was pretty cool.
Last edited by stlcardsfan; 08-28-2018 at 08:22 AM.
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08-28-2018, 10:35 AM
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Hilarious - maybe it’s on YouTube.
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#8
08-28-2018, 12:59 PM
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The words of wisdom card is #383 and I also saw a #417 Virgil Trucks. They were mint! One of the cast or crew must have just opened a 4th series pack.
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