Player/Type Collections

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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

1948 Sommer & Kaufmann San Francisco Seals Baseball #5, Kenneth Gables

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"Regional issues" remain an interesting, and often elusive, aspect of type collecting. Most often, regional sets start with a loca...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

1928 Ice Cream & Candy Baseball (F50, W502) #5, Gabby Hartnett

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This post earns its catch-all "ice cream" title because several mid-Atlantic food makers shared one 60-player checklist and design...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Goudey's many "Babe" Hermans and George Herman "Babes"

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If you wrote a book about Goudey Gum's 1930s trading card sets, at least one chapter would talk about the many,  many times they squeez...
Monday, June 5, 2017

1934-36 National Chicle "Diamond Stars Gum" Baseball #5, Tom Bridges

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This stylish card of Detroit righty Tom Bridges overlays a realistic, posed follow-through on top of an Art Deco outfield and horizon. It s...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

1935 Diamond Stars uncut test sheet and the rarity of #68 Sam Leslie

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In 2013, a Net54baseball.com collector shared this photo of an uncut test sheet from the middle of National Chicle's 1934-36 "Diam...
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Sunday, May 7, 2017

Bobby Doerr

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Sometimes when I'm down, I remember Bobby Doerr ( our oldest living HOFer, now 99 ) started his pro career in 1934. ...when this g...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Today's the day!

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HAPPY Happy Chandler served a long life in politics and earned a Cooperstown nod as MLB's second Commissioner of Baseball. As coda ...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

1916 (D329) and 1917 (D328) Weil Baking Co Baseball #5, Leon "Red" Ames and Fred Anderson

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Louisiana! Home to endless choices for great food, great music, and Joanie on the Pony . Louisiana! Erstwhile home to one of those food choi...
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Friday, December 30, 2016

Top 5 Photos from R313 National Chicle "Fine Pen" Premiums

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The 1930s produced great vintage sets, including some of my favorite individual cards. 1933 Goudey #155, Joe Judge Those blue lines a...
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Saturday, December 24, 2016

1980 AL baseball TV broadcast slides #5, Earl Weaver

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I recently asked Twitter, are these cards ? Computer-driven graphics hadn't taken over sports coverage in the 1970s and 80s, so TV ...
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