[SteveMitchell]

Paul Mac Farlane's work on various Conlon Collection sets, 1983 through 1988, rank as the finest, in my opinion. Prior to executing little word pictures for Marketcom and The Sporting News Publishing Co., Mac Farlane served as archivist for The Sporting News and his side work including editing a number of TSN publications including Daguerrotypes and Hall of Fame Fact Book.

Especially excellent are his biographies for Marketcom's 1983 set of 1933 American, National and Negro League all-stars, as selected by The Sporting News. The card size (4-1/2" by 6") was sufficiently large for Mac Farlane to develop an interesting (dare we say, in-depth) story line. His bio of Guy Bush (card #44) is a perfect example.

Among the oldtime sets, I would agree with a previous poster that T202's frequently contain interesting, insightful looks at the game long ago. Our modern card producer could take a page out of Hassan's and Mac Farlane's book.