The well of Topps affinity products is a never ending source of wonder.  Case in point: some 1974 ballpark promotions featuring team branded...

1975 saw production of three sportscard Rak Paks.  Baseball, as always, led the parade: While the card...

After a four year run utilizing essentially the same header cards for their rak paks in all sports, Topps changed things in 1974.  Partially...

Topps was showing the effects of lack of competition in 1973.  Once again, the year's rak paks featured the standard yellow header card ...

On to that grooviest of years in our Rak Pak odyssey: 1972:  While the baseball cards forty (!) years ago looked like a black light would be...

I have a few minutes before Mrs. Archives gets home and we can kick this year's Valentine's Day activities off so why not post on Ra...

Continuing on through the hazy, crazy 70's in our Topps Rak Pak journey, 1971 turned out to be a whole lot like 1970.  The 71 baseball r...

In 1970, after injuring myself in a playground accident, I had to stay home a few weeks from school and was left with some time on my hands....

One of the problems with buying vintage unopened Topps packs is that there is a lot of bogus product out there.  Wax packs are notorious for...

1969 was the last year of the 3 x 12 rak pak arrays.  Starting in 1959, when three 12 card cello packs were overwrapped for point of sale pu...

Looking up details on Topps Rak Paks for my previous post led me to some more images and I feel like this is about to turn into a multi-post...

Thanks to a (sadly) current eBay auction, I think I have stumbled onto the end of the Trading Card Guild era at Topps.  Long story short a ...