[George]

I also cut out one more card, which was Clem Labine, who was a relief pitcher for the Dodgers. I never quite understood the criteria that Topps used to select the players to be included in that set. They included a lot of very minor or marginal players from each team, such as George Shuba and Rube Walker from the Dodgers, but left out some big stars, including Gil Hodges, Duke Snider, Carl Furillo, Don Newcombe and Carl Erskine. They also had ten or so numbers that were never issued. It probably had something to do with the competition that was going on between Topps and Bowman at that time.