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1978 Baseball CardsBy Patrick Mondout
Here's our look at the major sets of baseball cards for 1978. We have a
separate page for '78 Topps and pages of
checklists for 1978 Topps, 1978
Hostess, and 1978 Kellogg's 3D Super
Stars.
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1978
Cards at a Glance |
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Our
coverage of the Hostess set
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Kellogg's
1978 release featured 57 3D cards.
You could buy 150 or so boxes of
their cereal and hope for the best
or you could buy a few boxes and
send their box-tops to Kellogg's
along with a check and get the whole
set in the mail. I tried the former
but only made it five boxes in
before football season (and still
managed to draw two Lenny Randles
instead of the coveted Eddie Murray
rookie).
A checklist for this set is here.
A brief description of the Kellogg's
3D cards is here.
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MSA discs for 1978
included Papa Gino's, Pepsi, Big T/Tastee
Freeze and Saga.
Learn more about MSA discs on our
1976
page. |
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O-Pee-Chee
released a 242 card Canadian subset
of Topps 726 card set, with their
usual and understandable emphasis on
the Expos and Blue Jays (those two
are the only teams whose managers
have cards in this set). The cards
are virtually identical to the
Topps issue - especially the fronts
(which is why I chose to picture a
wax box instead of a card). The
backs are similar, but viva la
difference! They are printed
with both French and English on
white card stock (making them easier
to read in any language) and the
feature the poorly designed
O-Pee-Chee logo. A checklist for
this set is here. |
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Minor league sets for 1978
included the Arkansas Travelers
(Leon Durham, Tommy Herr), Knoxville
Knox Sox (Harold Baines, Tony
Larussa, and Rich Dotson),
Burlington Bees (Kevin Bass),
Appleton Foxes (LaMarr Hoyt),
Columbus Clippers (Mike Easler),
Tidewater Tides (Mike Scott),
Syracuse Chiefs (Danny Ainge),
Richmond Braves (Glenn Hubbard),
Cedar Rapids Giants (Chili Davis),
Greenwood Braves (Rafael
Ramirez), and the Dunedin Blue
Jays (Jesse Barfield). With TCMA
print runs estimated to be at a 1000
per set, these sets range from easy
to find for under $5 to impossible
to find.
Cramer also issued minor league
sets in this period and produced an
Albuquerque Dukes set that featured
Pedro Guerrero, Bob Welch and Rick
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Read
more about the classic '78
Topps set here. |
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Topps
produced a set of four regional sets
of 22 cards each for distribution in
Burger King restaurants. The Detroit
set is highly thought of by
collectors. Read more about these
cards here. |
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Topps
Zest Soap: A five card set of
bilingual (English/Spanish) cards
produced for Zest
featuring Latino players. The
set was apparently marketed in areas
with a high percentage of
Spanish-speaking residents in the
U.S. on boxes of Zest Soap as a
mail-in offer. The players are
Joaquin Andujar, Bert Camparneris,
Ed Figueroa, Many Mota, and Willie
Montanez (whose card features a
different picture than on his
regular Topps card). Otherwise, the
cards are identical to '78
Topps save for the card numbers
and MLB logos instead of the Play
Ball game on the back. These cards
are neither valuable nor easy to
find. |
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Share Your Memories!What are your memories of the 1978 Baseball cards? Share your stories with the world! (We print the best stories right here!) |
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1978 BASEBALL CARDS |
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