The first set of cards I remember buying. I love this set. My favorite of all time. The most colorful lovable set of cards IMO. Remember getting Bob Gibson & Johnny Bench in the same pack, what a thrill.
This is one of my favorite sets of all time bc of the rookies and the design is unique especially for the time. I have 606 of the 660 set including the Yount, Brett (both PSA 7) and Hernandez rookies. Not the mini set the standard set
I believe the ‘75 minis were primarily sold as regional tests. In my small town in Ohio, the minis were the only ones you could find in the 4 or 5 stores that sold cards. No regular sized packs to be found! Weird. Thus; all of my 75s were minis until I started to go to shows and “discovered” they made large ones too! 😂
@@markmcquown6712 That is strange, I didn't know about 75 minis till Sports Collectors Digest and only seen some in person a couple years ago at a show in Evansville, In. This dealer had several hundred but they were very off center and very expensive as compared to regular 75 Topps.
Where to even start. The Steve Busby card at the end is actually Fran Healy, TOPPS made a mistake. Several players in those packs are now deceased, including Steve Kline, Chris Cannizzarro, Bob Moose, Paul Blair, Jim Bibby and Paul Casanova. Back in the days before photoshop, Topps had an artist who would paint over the original photo plates if a player was traded during the off season. These players uniforms appear a bit cartoonish. Examples in these packs include Joe Lis, Ken Sanders, Ross Grimsley, Nate Colbert, Mike Wallace and Steve Kline.
When you re-seal the commons to re-sell, you need the cards with the gum stuck to them. It gives the appearance of being authentic / mint / unopened and such...
Jim Nettles at 5:20 is the brother of the better known player Graig Nettles. Not many who remember Graig will admit they remember he had a brother who made the Bigs.
I opened boxes and boxes of this stuff back in 1975, and now I have a full set after filling in about 20 or so common cards that I was missing. It's an O Pee Chee set though.
Nate Colbert's 1975 Topps card at 5:16 has him with the Tigers. He played for San Diego in 1974 but was traded to Detroit on November 18th, 1974. So that Tigers card had to be printed after that, using a photo where we really can't tell anything about the uniform... very generic. I find stuff like that interesting.
You can tell some things about the uniform if you compare it to others. There are a lot of changes that went into making cards. Often times you can see that the caps were painted to match a player's new team.
Thank you for sharing. As it brings me back to a young boy.The second to last pack you opened, I feel like I had the same sequence. As I remember the Madlock then Matlock right after each other. And possibly the Schmidt few cards after. Though he was still young, so I didn’t appreciate him yet. But I was a Mad dog and Matlack fan. Also mine were minis as well, growing up in California. I believe Ca. and Michigan were the only 2 states to distribute the mini’s. Though I am sure to be corrected if I am wrong on that. May Jesus bless you my friend.
I also have this complete set....all 660 cards....O Pee Chee of course because I live in Canada! But I still love the set because all of my baseball heros of the time were in it....Aaron, Schmidt, Nolan Ryan, and of course rookies of George Brett, Robin Yount, Jim Rice and Fred Lynn! Bought and opened all these packs when I was just 14 ! And I am making sure I'm buried with them when I go, LOL !!!
Fellow Canuck here. The 75 set is my favourite. It is loaded with all-time greats. One you didn't mention is Gary Carter. His rookie is also in here however it is a shared card with another rookie.
Never order of those wax packs they are compromised they’re opened up and resealed with a warm iron. Can you Cantel if it was opened before you purchased
@GiantsJets718 You are a disgrace. You will pay for it one day. Talk about traitors to the country - liberals who want to put America's people at risk. Simply put, if you don't like this President or our country - get out. I'm sure you'll stay and collect this nation's benefits though, won't you. Now who's the traitor?
I bought two 1975 Topps cards on eBay. Bob Gibson #150 and Tom Seaver #370. They’re both from the same seller but the Seaver seems like it on a very slightly slimmer card stock. Has anyone noticed different card thickness in card stock amongst 1975 cards. They’re both the USA Topps version and not O Pee Chee.
Too bad that Schmidt is a bit OC and has the fisheye on it. Probably wouldn't grade out to great. Thanks for sharing these. Not sure I would have the nerve to rip a box of these.
I once tried to eat gum from an 10 year old pack of baseball cards because I heard gum has a very long shelf life. It instantly liquefied in my mouth and was disgusting
You pulled a Mike Tyson! A little over a decade later he would be winning the heavyweight championship of the world. Excellent find of his days as a baseball player!
Stop opening the packs slowly so you can reseal them after looking through the cards. Another telltale sign is leaving the gum attached to the first card so you can put it back where it originaly was so as to make the pack look legic. I hate scammers.
dice341 George Foster was a beast. I was in bleachers near CF in St. Louis when he crushed a ball a mile high that carried into the turf beyond the wall. It carried and carried and....
Fun to watch you open these! The Schmidt came out nice and about as good as anyone could hope for when opening vintage packs! Did you determine if it was grade worthy and send it off? If so, any results you could share?
Nirvana would be finding the Brett or Yount rookie on a rack pack, front facing. First cards bought were packs of 1976's. Even wilder, remember sending $9.99 to Renetta Galasso for "1,000" cards & receiving (heaven!) a box of (24) 1979 rack packs. Who knows if the Ozzie Smith I landed was showing. I do know this: that was baseball card heaven for a (14) year old. A side note: 1979 racks were imperfectly large sheets of plastic strips, divided into four parts. (top w/ad card being "rack ready" w/prepunch)😇🇺🇸
I have to call "resealed" here. The flaps on the back are too flat, crisp, and stuck together too well to not have been tampered with. Whoever ironed them shut should have turned down the heat on the iron, and used a towel and a piece of wax paper to absorb some of the heat and cover their tracks on the pack itself. Also, dont buy old sealed product from me.
Looking at the folds on the corners they look way too good for something that had been unfolded once,as you well know if unfolded there is noticeable loss of color on the waxed paper seam.This is just my opinion
I'd call resealed too...except what does it matter? This guy, as others on RU-vid, open the packages so very carefully, not only because they don't want to damage the product, but because they don't want to damage the packaging which they themselves have every intention of resealing and reselling. These cards have probably been bought, opened and resealed on more than one occasion. It's just the nature of the hobby. Never, EVER, expect to get unsearched product, sealed or not. Just be glad the prior guy left the off center Schmidt inside. I'm guessing the next guy who buys this "sealed" box wont be so lucky.
Did you find a CENTERED #647 Claudell Washington? The green/yellow bordered cards all seem to have centering issues but the Washington card is the most difficult card to find centered.
Really? He was my favorite player in the 80s for some reason. My grandmother and i watched all the braves games and for whatever reason he was my favorite. I know i have a bunch of his cards somewhere. Did you know he is the player in ferris bueller that hits the ball that ferris catches? Well, the footage they used was of him.
