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03-20-2023, 06:08 AM
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Wished there was a like button. I also ripped many packs of this set which does not get enough love for a variety of reasons. Keep it up---and suggest to make a video of all this, though that's a lot of work. Thanks.
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#2
03-20-2023, 05:48 PM
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The 1978 Topps St. Louis Cardinals
The set contains 26 Cardinal images, including the Roric Harrison and Steve Dunning paint jobs, but excluding those of Phillips, Schultz, Dwyer, Underwood and Eastwick. The team photo was hard to place, as I was unable to locate a key, but I think I did a fairly good job sussing out who was who. If I am correct, the photo was taken at Busch Stadium during a homestand from 8/12-8/19 - Denny and Bosetti arrived on the club on 7/29 while they were on the road (Denny is definitely in the photo and I think Bosetti is as well), and Tony Scott who is also in the photo went to the DL on 8/19 and was replaced by Dane Iorg who I don't think is in the image - in any event Kessinger left the next day and he is in the image. Any help with a key would be appreciated. The small image of Vern Rapp was taken while he was with the Rochester Red Wings in 1953 or 1954. A good number of images seem to have been taken at Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg, the spring facility the team shared with the Mets - these include several players in road blue, but since in a couple of photos the details of the park are the same as those in images of players in white, the were probably dressed for intra-squad action: Templeton, Forsch, Brock, Dierker, Hrabosky, Cruz, Scott, Simmons, Mumphrey, Urrea, Falcone, Reitz and Anderson. One image was snapped at Shea, the Brock RB, and it was taken either 4/12-4/14, 8/8-8/10 or 9/23. More images were taken during one of the club's trips to Candlestick, 6/14-6/16, 9/2-9/4: Tyson, Hernandez, Rasmussen, Rapp, Metzger, Freed, Rader and Denny. This leaves the two paint jobs, Dunning and Harrison. Dunning's is a real stunner - is he even awake? He was in camp with St. Louis in 77, and it's hard to think Topps went looking for an older image and chose this one. So, without much to base this on, I will call Dunning for St. Louis and attribute to Al Lang in the spring of 77. Then there is Roric Harrison - he was also with the club in the spring, and was also shot at Al Lang. A few years ago, the Topps Vault spit this image out to confirm:
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#3
03-20-2023, 06:16 PM
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The 1978 Topps Atlanta Braves
The set includes 29 Braves images, excluding the Bobby Cox paint job, but including the Junior Moore paint job. The team photo was snapped in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium on May 3 - the day after Chaney returned from the DL and the day before Barry Bonnell came from Richmond when Joe Nolan went to the DL. Montanez is in the image even though he was on the DL, and active roster members Jerry Royster and Don Collins are absent for some reason. Many images were taken at Candlestick during 5/27-5/29, 7/8-7/10, or 9/12-9/13: Niekro, Montanez, Ruthven, Burroughs, Royster, Niekro LL, Gilbreath, Bonnell, Easterly, Pocoroba, Paciorek, Camp, Campbell, Chaney, Rockett, Correll, Capra, Solomon, Nolan, Belloir, Gaston and Moore. Asselstine was taken at Shea 6/21-6/22 or 9/2-9/4. A few were recorded at the Braves' facility at Municipal Stadium in West Palm Beach in the spring - Messersmith, Matthews, Office, Murphy and Mahler.
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#4
03-21-2023, 05:42 PM
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The 1978 Topps Cincinnati Reds.
The 1978 set contains 37 images, not counting the Bonham paint job, but including the Fryman, Meoli, Nolan, Eastwick and Bailey paint jobs. The team photo - surprise! - is actually the 1976 Team photo; a couple standees at the ends of the middle row have been airbrushed out and the fence has been recolored behind the, but those are the 1976 champions - Perez, McEnaney, Youngblood, etc. The photo was taken at Riverfront during a homestand between 7/29, when Sarmiento replaced Rich Hinton on the roster, and before 9/1 when Joe Henderson and Don Werner joined the club. The REAL 1977 Reds Team Photo, shown below, was taken in Riverfront sometime between 7/17 when Sarmiento and Soto were recalled and 9/1 when the call-ups began arriving. The small black and white image of Sparky Anderson was taken when he was with the Phillies in 1959. Several images were taken at Candlestick during 5/25-5/26, 8/12-8/14 or 9/16-9/18: Plummer, Borbon, Morgan, Anderson, Armbrister, Knight, Bench and Bailey. Auerbach was taken at Candlestick either in August or September. Rose RB, Rose, Geronimo and Capilla were taken in Shea, either 6/7-6/8 or 8/9-8/21. Seaver was snapped at Shea, but during the August series for obvious reasons. The rest were taken in the spring. I believe Dale Murray was take at Al Lang field, home of the Cardinals and Mets, because the look of the outfield fence matches several images of Cardinals players. I can say for sure that Fred Norman and Mario Soto were definitely taken at the Reds' spring home, Al Lopez Field in Tampa - you can see portions of the adjacent football stadium in the background. The rest of the spring photos - Billingham, Griffey, Moskau, Concepcion, 2 Foster RBs, Driessen, Lum, Sarmiento, Foster, Summers, Hume, Werner, Revering, Meoli, Fryman, Eastwick and Nolan - were probably taken in Tampa, but the Murray image suggests some may have been taken in St. Pete - I could not see any other identifying features which would help the determination, so I will assume the probable, they were taken in Tampa, unless other information surfaces. As promised, here is the REAL 1977 Reds Photo:
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#5
03-21-2023, 06:23 PM
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The 1978 Topps Houston Astros
There are 24 Astro images, not counting the Walton and Zamora paint jobs. The team photo was taken in the Astrodome, sometime between 8/24 and 8/31, after Bannister came off the DL but before the call-ups arrived. The small image of Virdon was taken while he was with the Pirates, 56-65. Several images were taken at Candlestick, during 4/26-4/28, 8/9-8/11, 9/14-9/15: Howe, Cabell, Metzger and Pentz (August or September). A few were taken in Shea, 6/16-6/19 or 8/22-8/23: Bannister, Watson, Lemongello, Gonzalez and Sperring. The rest were taken during the spring - Herrmann was definitely taken at the Astros facility, Cocoa Expo Stadium in Cocoa Beach, FL. The rest were likely taken there as well - Ferguson, Cedeno, Forsch, Puhl, Niekro, Sambito, Andujar, Cruz, Richard, McLaughlin, Virdon and Howard.
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#6
03-22-2023, 05:05 PM
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The 1978 Topps Los Angeles Dodgers
There are 30 Dodger images in this set, not counting the Davalillo and Forster paint jobs, counting John Hale, Henry Cruz and Kevin Pasley, and the NLCS card. The team photo was taken at Dodger Stadium, between 7/21 and 7/28 - after the arrival of Rautzhan but before the departure of Hale. The small image of Lasorda was taken while he was with Brooklyn in 1954 or 1955. A number of photos were taken at Candlestick Park during 4/15-4/17, 7/1-7/4 or 9/20-9/21 - Goodson, Rhoden, Cey, Rau, Monday, Smith, John, Lopes, Baker and Sosa. Burke was also snapped at Candlestick, but in either July or September. Just 2 images are from Shea, 5/13-5/15 or 8/1-8/3- Yeager and Lacy. The remainder were taken during the spring, almost all certainly at Holman Stadium in Vero Beach: Hough, Hooton, Lasorda, Mota, Sutton, Garvey, Garman, Oates, Martinez and Rautzhan. Hale, Pasley and Cruz were all very likely also taken at Holman. Russell was probably taken there as well, but I cannot confirm whether 1) he is wearing his home or away uniform, or 2) if Holman had a yellow strip along the dugout roof. The image used on the NLCS card, of Davey Lopes batting with Tim McCarver catching, was taken at Veterans' Stadium on October 8 in the deciding game 4 - McCarver was Carlton's personal catcher (of his 39 starts in '77 only 3 were in games Carlton didn't pitch) and sure enough Carlton started game 4 with Tim behind the plate. Lopes batted 3 times against this battery, walking twice and lining out to 2nd once. In the photo, he's made contact and is headed towards first, so this was taken a split second after he hit that liner to lead off the game.
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03-22-2023, 05:47 PM
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The 1978 Topps San Diego Padres
The set contains a total of 26 Padre images, excluding the Scanlon and Gamble paint jobs, but including Doug Rader's. The team photo was taken in San Diego Stadium sometime during 7/1-7/5 or 7/11-7/28 - After the arrival of Tucker Ashford and before the departure of John D'Acquisto. The smaller image of Alvin Dark was taken while he was with the Cubs in 1958 or 1959. Several images were taken at Candlestick during 5/30-6/1, 7/6-7/7 or 9/30-10/2: Hendrick, Owchinko, Turner, Dark, Champion and Davis. Ivie and Winfield were taken at Shea either 5/11-5/12 or 7/29-7/31. The remainder were almost certainly taken in the spring at Desert Sun Stadium in Yuma, AZ: Jones, Tomlin, Ashford, Fingers, Fingers LL, Tenace, Shirley, Richards, Griffin, Almon, Spillner, Strom, Rettenmund, Freisleben, Sweet and Rader.
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#8
06-20-2025, 12:37 PM
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Also, I see that you live(d) in Ellicott City. I'm right down the street in Columbia! Last edited by Sleepless72; 06-20-2025 at 12:38 PM.
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#9
06-20-2025, 06:22 PM
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Thanks for the assist - sent you a PM on the Columbia/EC connection
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