Posted By:
Brad Green
If you could travel back in time to just one year in history and collect as many baseball cards from that year as possible, what year would you go to? Of course, you would want to take as many screwdown holders, rigid toploaders and albums as you could to preserve the cards that you've just pulled out of the cigarette packs, gum packs and exhibit machines. After the year was up, then you could bring the cards back in time to the present.
What year would you go to? Perhaps you would choose a particular year that you knew you could get the most valuable cards. Or perhaps you would choose the year in which your favorite set was produced, irregardless of value. Maybe you would choose the year because a particular player that you collect had a lot of cards that year.
I would choose to go back to 1933. More cards of Lefty were distributed in 1933. His DeLong, Goudey, Tattoo Orbit, George C. Miller, Eclipse Import and Rittenhouse Candy cards (among others) were made that year.
Of course, this scenerio will likely never be possible, but it certainly is fun to imagine what it might be like if it was!