Fleer Firsts

[laughlinfan]

Hey Jay!

Al (as usual - thanks for always being a great source of information for us, Al!) is spot on - the Fleer Sticker Blog Spot is a very good resource for a lot these Fleer sets. All of the Fleer "bottom boards," as I think they were referred, fit nicely in the 6 pocket sheets. As you can probably guess, the slightly larger cards, just as happened with the 65 Football Tall Boys and the 69 and 70 Basketball sets, caused a great majority of these cards to take more than their share of abuse. Bob did get a small volume of sets to sell as part of his deal, and I am guessing Fleer also distributed some complete sets to a few dealers, so usually the nicer sets that turn up every once in a while were sold through that route.

A little bit of info about this set - it was actually produced in 1976 - the 1974 set was the Wildest Plays and Days set - and was sold in the historical spirit of the bicentennial celebrations that were going on. A few items of interest - Bob's newsletter announcing the set, and a scan of cards in the sheet.

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Happy collecting!

[Jayworld]

Awesome information, as always! I just love this forum!