OK, 1970s fans, tell me what these nine cards have in common. If you collected in the '70s, this should be easy. OK, time's up. The answer is every one of these cards features a home run in the game that you could play on the back of the card! For those who never came across a card from 1978 Topps, it featured a game on the back called "Play Ball". Each player's card displayed a particular baseball play on the back: single, double, triple, strikeout, fly out, ground out, etc. We played this game many times in 1978 and I even played it once on the blog to answer the nagging question of what would the score be if you played a full nine-inning game from the beginning of the set? But as I mentioned in that post, there were many other questions that I had regarding the game. For instance, those cards above aren't the only cards with home runs on the back. But how many were in the set? Well, now I know. Because I counted them. There are 36. ...
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