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The first time I saw a 1971 Topps card was when one of my fellow boys scouts brought a pack to our meeting. I LOVED the look of them. Nowadays we've all seen the 1971 design, in fact it's this year's Heritage set, but back in 1971 we'd never seen anything like it. It was fresh and new. It was the first year Topps put a photo of the player on the reverse side and the first year Topps included action photos for individual player cards. Although I missed the complete statistics on the back, I still put the entire set together getting the last card, Ernie Banks, a couple years later in a trade from another collector that I went to school with.

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1971 Kellogg's #5 Roberto Clemente (Another one pulled from a box of cereal.)
1971 O-Pee-Chee #5 Thurman Munson (The Canadian version of Munson's first solo card.)
1971 Topps #341 Steve Garvey RC (Anyone else remember Steve Garvey as a judge on the Gong Show?)

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1971 Topps #400 Hank Aaron
1971 Topps #513 Nolan Ryan
1971 Topps #525 Ernie Banks (The last card I obtained to complete my '71 set courtesy of a trade with my schoolmate, Maber Cronkite.)

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1971 Topps #600 Willie Mays
1971 Topps #630 Roberto Clemente
1971 Topps #709 Rookie Stars/Dusty Baker RC/Don Baylor RC/Tom Paciorek RC SP (Two very successful future managers featured on the same rookie card, a short print at that.)