Enlarged T206 Cards in a Movie
I cannot recall the title or subject of the movie, but I do believe it was a biography produced maybe five years ago. Perhaps FDR? Anyway, it had by far the greatest baseball card scene ever . . . a child was waiting for the war (WWI) to end so his dad could return home. There he was with a stack of T206 cards, going through them and, I think, even saying that he only needed a couple more to complete the set! And the ones they showed, as I recall, were major HOFers like Matty, Cobb and Big Train. It was so gratuitous and had absolutely nothing to do with the plot that I figured the director had to be a vintage collector himself. The only thing out of place was that they had enlarged these cards to where they looked to be about the same size as the tall boys of '65 Topps football. Coolest baseball card scene ever!
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