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1989 Topps Major League Baseball card pack with a white baseball, blue and red text. Features 15 stickers, gum, and a spring training ticket offer. Bright yellow and red design with the year 1989 prominently displayed.

Baseball Cards Without Bubble Gum, 20 Years On

I recall finding out, to my horror, in the early 1990s, that Topps Baseball Card packages were no longer including their trademark brittle piece of gum that had been a mainstay of American boys’ youth since the late 1940s and early 1950s.  At the time, my card collecting days were over but they were not for my…

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