The hockey panel is from the well-illustrated Vintage Hockey Collector Price Guide. The panel looks like it was identical on all four wrappers and it also came on the Mini Baseball pack as well. $2.50 would get you in:
For the record, the mailing address was a loud shout from my childhood home. There was also at least one print ad, probably in Boy's Life magazine:
That is from the Project Baseball 1976 site by the way. The newsletter that came with membership started off at 6 pages and then was winnowed down to four (UPDATE 4/18/24: The first issue was four pages, the second one had six). I only have the second issue, which features 1975 Football:
As a bonus you got an 8" x 10" color photo of a popular superstar tucked away inside:
Griese is printed on very glossy, thin paper stock. Other photos in the set seem to include Joe Morgan and Steve Garvey, Bobby Clarke and (possibly) Dave DeBusschere. There could be more. The Garvey and a little more backstory can be found here.
The project seems to have died out pretty quickly; I suspect the price was a little too steep for the times.
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Thanks for posting some pages from the newsletter. I've always wondered what the content of one of these newsletters looked like.
Interesting that they did not airbrush the Dolphins logo on the pictures inside the newsletter since this was during the airbrush era when Topps was not allowed to use NFL logos on their cards. I guess their argument would have been the newsletter was a completely separate item from trading cards.
I wish I would have kept my Sports Club stuff. Since the Dodgers were (and still are) my least favorite team, the Garvey picture ended up on someone else's bedroom wall, but I remember having the Griese and Clarke pictures up on my wall. Too bad Topps didn't keep that club going. By the way, thanks for the shout out :).
Lynn Swan was another photo. I have a few of those newsletters. They included a uncut sheet of all baseball teams as a sample of 1976 cards before avaliable in stores..
I have the Topps Sports Club photos, card sheets, and newsletters in immaculate condition. They were left in a folder in my childhood desk that my parents still have. Autographed photos of Bobby Clarke, Joe Morgan, and Lynn Swann.
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