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Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb
As previously mentioned, the Tip Top Bread set has a few key rookie cards that can present quite a challenge for the rookie collectors.
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Rather than focusing on HOF rookies, I made completing the 1947 Tip Top set a collecting priority because it provides such an interesting slice of baseball after World War II but before the maturation of the Yankee and Dodger dynasties of the 1950s. In fact, Dodger mainstays Preacher Roe and Billy Cox appear as Pirates, while eventual Yankee ace Eddie Lopat is a White Sox. Though the Phillies, Reds, Indians and Athletics are omitted, the set does include the Browns, Cubs, Tigers and Red Sox, who all made recent rare World Series appearances and the Braves, who would be in the Series for the first time in 34 years the following season.