Postcards and Exhibits and the like are just bigger baseball cards (with a big plus for us older guys--we don't have to put on our reading glasses to look at and enjoy them!). I gravitated towards them sometime ago, without really realizing that they had become a major focus within my collection--I simply like them, and don't even consider them to fall within a different category from the more typical cards I have from all eras.
Love that Kiner, Adam. He's been one of my favorite players since I was a kid, and 1949 was certainly one of his best years: 54 HR's, 127 RBI, going purely by memory. He really had at least three years where he could easily have won the MVP if only the teams he played on had been better--plus he was the ONLY player ever to win 7 consecutive league homerun crowns, not to mention becoming a six-time all-star in only a ten-year career!
Good thread!
Larry
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