64 Business Days But Worth the Wait: 1970s Baseball Unopened Pack Poppage!!

grote15 · July 25, 2013 12:25PM

My sub was logged in 4/22, but turned out to be worth the wait! Very pleased overall with the number of Mint 9s, and as you can see, 1975 is my favorite year, LOL..

MINT 9 1972 TOPPS BASEBALL WAX PACK WAX PACK 5th/6th SERIES Cardgroup rips pack bought from vettfanatic, very pleased!
MINT 9 1974 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK BERT BLYLEVEN-TOP Packebay BIN purchase--a super tough year for cellos
MINT 9 1975 TOPPS BASEBALL MINI CELLO PACK CELLO PACK YANKEES TEAM/BILL VIRDON-TOP Packbought from aconte, a terrific member here and a great guy to deal with
MINT 9 1975 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK MIKE SCHMIDT-BACK Cardmost of the 1975 cellos were bought from Mark Wingard (treetop) when he was running those terrific auctions last summer for 75 racks and cellos that were in storage untouched for 35 years
MINT 9 1975 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK FRANK ROBINSON-TOP Cardebay BIN purchase for $100
MINT 9 1975 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK PETE ROSE-TOP Card
MINT 9 1975 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK JIM RICE-TOP/JOHNNY BENCH-BACK Pack
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1975 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK JIM RICE-TOP Card
MINT 9 1975 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK GARY CARTER-TOP Card
MINT 9 1975 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK REGGIE JACKSON-TOP Card
MINT 9 1975 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK KEITH HERNANDEZ-TOP Pack
MINT 9 1975 O.P.C. BASEBALL WAX PACK WAX PACK Packgraded this one to stop myself from opening it, lol
MINT 9 1976 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK Card
MINT 9 1978 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK STEVE CARLTON-TOP Pack
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1978 TOPPS BASEBALL WAX PACK WAX PACK Cardthought this was a Mint 9 pack; 78 wax is TOUGH for Mint 9s
MINT 9 1978 O.P.C. BASEBALL WAX PACK WAX PACK PETE ROSE-BACK Pack
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1978 O.P.C. BASEBALL WAX PACK WAX PACK ROBIN YOUNT-BACK Packsuffered a pinhole tear in transit
MINT 9 1979 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK TOM SEAVER-TOP/ROBIN YOUNT-BACK Packbought from Bob Beck, great guy to deal with
MINT 9 1979 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK CELLO PACK PAUL MOLITOR-TOP Pack

TheDudeAbides · July 25, 2013 12:53PM

Very nice. Tough to find 74 cellos. Great star power!

Giantsdude24 · July 25, 2013 1:14PM

Nice bunch of packs, you must have a really great eye for what things will grade out as. If I had subbed that many I would have been lucky to get 1 PSA 9 pack.

ToppsFan · July 25, 2013 2:26PM

Wow, that is a lot of mint packs grote15. Will you be selling any?

John

ThoseBackPages · July 25, 2013 2:28PM

RIP TIME!

NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1978 O.P.C. BASEBALL WAX PACK WAX PACK ROBIN YOUNT-BACK Packsuffered a pinhole tear in transit

bigdcards · July 25, 2013 2:30PM

Tim, Excellent sub! That's quite a group of stars there. Any chance for a few scans?

<< <i>NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1978 TOPPS BASEBALL WAX PACK WAX PACK Cardthought this was a Mint 9 pack; 78 wax is TOUGH for Mint 9s >>

With a population report of 0, I think this is a fair comment.

<< <i>NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1978 O.P.C. BASEBALL WAX PACK WAX PACK ROBIN YOUNT-BACK Packsuffered a pinhole tear in transit >>

Pinhole tear? Sounds like you need to crack this one and rip it. Hope the centering on that Yount is good.

Edit: took too long to type. Backpage beat me to it.

BPorter26 · July 25, 2013 5:19PM

Congrats Tim on the poppage + grades.

flatfoot816 · July 25, 2013 7:45PM

the rich get richer......... at least you didn't tip them!!!!!

nice additions to the collection Timothy

MBMiller25 · July 25, 2013 8:35PM

That sub really sucked! NO 10's, not sure what your all excited about. Geesh...

Congratulations on the sub results!

BaltimoreYankee · July 25, 2013 9:02PM

Wow Tim! Congrats on a super submission. I remember the Bly11 1974 pack on eBay. I think we may have discussed it too.

1neatstuff · July 26, 2013 1:44AM

great job great packs congrats on your sub tim

grote15 · July 26, 2013 4:56AM

Thanks, guys, I appreciate the kind words! Will post some scans over the weekend. Yes, Daniel, that '74 Blyleven cello is now one of my favorites.

Cakes · July 26, 2013 4:59AM

Very cool but I must admit how do they grade the unopened wax?

grote15 · July 26, 2013 5:04AM

<< <i>Very cool but I must admit how do they grade the unopened wax? >>

For wax, grade is based on condition of wrapper, whether there are any rips or tears, any stains or wrinkles or dirt on the wrapper, and to a lesser extent, centering of the wrapper itself. In my experience, getting Mint 9 grades on 70s wax is very difficult and the primary reason that these packs go for the premium they do.