For those of you who collected in the 60's/70's...

Guru

Was the craze for inserts back then as crazy as it is now? I've always wondered if people collecting back then cared about the inserts the way we do now about auto's and game used cards? Or even numbered, etc. Just curious.

grote15

There were no inserts in the late 70s, and what few inserts I can recall (like 1982 stickers in 1982 Topps cello packs), I used to throw away, LOL..I do remember scratching off the "Hit to Win" cards from 1981 packs, too, LOL..

Dboneesq

Not sure the exact year i opened my first wax pack, but it was not later than 1966. Opened a LOT of packs in the late 60s, but dont remember ever caring about the inserts. I think most kids felt the same way. Surprised the inserts are not more expensive than they are.

edmundfitzgerald

I didn't care as a kid. Wacky Packages had some discontinued issues back in the early 70's, Honus Wagner style.
Many of us were too young to even care about it. I think we mostly bought the packs for the gum, and the cards
were just a nice extra bonus.

dennis07

" I think we mostly bought the packs for the gum, and the cards
were just a nice extra bonus."

This.

WhiteTornado

I bought packs for the cards and threw the gum away . The stickers I got in the early 80s, both FB and BB, were kind of an after-thought to me and my friend at the time who collected a lot like me. We bought the accompanying Topps sticker album and stuck them in there. We did not give them as much thought as cards, didn't put them in album pages like cards, etc.

Thank goodness I saved at least some of my FB stickers, which were probably dupes.

bishop

The 60s to mid 70s were the "Golden Age" for Topps inserts and test issues, the latter usually issued regionally. I have been collecting since 1957, but finished most of my insert and test issues in the 80s and 90s because they were not all that popular in their day .

itzagoner

i plastered my childhood bedroom with every sticker, poster or decorative item i could find back in the 60s/early 70s. maybe a bit of regret for not having the foresight to retain some of these rare goodies, but that was then.

a couple years forward it all disappeared beneath a wealth of rock 'n' roll blacklight posters.

miwlvrn

<< <i>There were no inserts in the late 70s >>




Sure there were!

bishop

bishop

DanBessette

Wow bishop, that's some amazing stuff!

grote15

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<< <i>There were no inserts in the late 70s >>




Sure there were!

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I'm sorry, but hockey doesn't count.

I should clarify...there were no inserts in late 70s BASEBALL packs, which back then, were the only packs (for the most part, at least here in NY), that kids would spend their money on, LOL..

itzagoner

<< <i>Wow bishop, that's some amazing stuff! >>



he does this a lot. my opinion is that he enjoys knowing some of us are prone to Pavlovian response.

drool.

Crazylegs

Great group of oddball there!

I loved the posters in the late 60's early 70's.

But like others have said there weren't many inserts pre 60's.

The 60's had some great stamps/peel-offs, 64 coins & already mentioned poster inserts.

Test issues, which most of the great pictured sets were, don't count as
inserts to me.

I loved the posters/deckle and didn't care much for any of the stamps, peel-offs, tattoos.

miwlvrn

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<< <i>There were no inserts in the late 70s >>




Sure there were!

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I'm sorry, but hockey doesn't count.

I should clarify...there were no inserts in late 70s BASEBALL packs, which back then, were the only packs (for the most part, at least here in NY), that kids would spend their money on, LOL.. >>



Makes sense Hockey has never been all that hard to find here in Michigan. Gotta have something to spend all the Canadian change in your pocket on anyway.

bishop

There were some Pre 50s stuff too

MikeyP

I was 7 years old when I first began collecting baseball cards back in 1978. My friends and I used to flip our cards against our classroom wall in order to win them from each other. We would then pick them up and wrap rubber bands around our stacks of cards. I would go home and throw them into a shoebox. Yes, literally a shoebox. I purchased baseball cards back then with the hope of pulling a Yankees player out of a pack, particularly a Reggie Jackson card. I suppose that the closest thing to finding an insert card back then was one of the Record Breaker cards or even an A.L. Championships, N.L. Championships or Reggie Jackson World Series card.