Still All-In On 1975 Topps Baseball

I suppose I mentioned this once before, but when I first became acquainted with 1975 Topps baseball, the only ones that we could buy at my local (Sacramento) 7-11 - where I bought all my first cards - were the mini versions. Consequently, these minis - which were only available in limited parts of the country - were what I thought 1975 Topps baseball were; a one-year aberration where they decided to experiment with smaller cards. It was only in my non-collecting adulthood that I found out the truth - that those minis were relatively "rare", and that '75 Topps was mostly made in your normal 2.5x3.5 version.

The only '75 packs I grabbed back then in 1977, when I first started buying cards, were leftovers that were sitting unbought. Of course I gave them all away to a neighbor, probably around 1980 or so. Now here I am trying to collect the regular 1975 set, and yeah, it's costing me more than the 25 cents a pack I paid back then. Thankfully there's Ken in Missouri, who recently sent me a nice handful of '75s that I didn't have, including this beautiful if a little chewed-up-in-the-corner Rollie Fingers.

I'm all-in on the 1975s. Seriously one of the great sets of all-time. Here are a few more that came over in the batch from Ken.