Someone brought up the other day about how baseball card wrappers used to feature the ingredients for your stick of bubble gum. I dug out an example from my favorite set of all-time, 1975 Topps. Here is that nutritional information: That's good eatin'. For all I know some of the things listed there have been banned because of multiple lawsuits. I do know that BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) is bad news. Wrappers don't include gum ingredients anymore because gum isn't included in packs anymore. Instead it gives you this: Odds! In teeny tiny type! These are your chances of "gitting something good" in a pack of this year's Chrome. We probably would have appreciated odds on the back of 1975 packs, but what would the odds be? "Chances of getting Johnny Bench, 1:660". "Chances of getting anything , 1:660". Besides, nobody thought of "odds" when opening cards then. We weren't at the race track playing ...
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