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Topps Issued 15 Baseball cards and a
stick of gum in 1980 for .25¢ a pack.
The wrappers featured four premium
offer variations. One wrapper offer;
for .50¢ and one baseball wrapper, you
received an uncut sheet of all
twenty-six 1979 Topps team checklists.
The 27th card was an offer for the
Topps Super Sports Card Locker
which was also offered on 1980 Topps
wrappers. This premium appeared on
wrappers from about the mid 1970s
through to the early 1980s.
On another 1980 wrapper premium you could get a Personalized Trading Card,
with your full color picture on the
front, and personal data on the back
"just like the pros." The fourth 1980
wrapper premium was for an autographed baseball. Pick your
favorite club... American or National
League, mail in $4.25 plus 50¢ postage,
and 1 Topps sports card wrapper. The
wrapper illustrates an autograph
baseball with signatures of players
that include; Nolan Ryan, Dave Goltz,
Mickey Rivers, Bill Madlock, Johnnie
Lemaster, Andre Dawson John Grubb, Sid
Monge, and Gary Alexander.
The
baseballs were produced by the
Autograph Ball Co., founded by ex-major
league ballplayer Dick Culler in 1947.
the company licensed the use of
players' signatures on the basis of one
cent apiece for each ball sold.
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