Great find, Larry. I'm noticing in my project that almost everyone in the set was in either World War II or Korea, and several of them are/were combat veterans. The card backs mention that Cubs pitcher Turk Lown was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, Senators infielder Wayne Terwilliger served with the Marines on Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima, and Athletics pitcher Joe Coleman was a US Navy aviator. Then there are a lot of guys who don't have stat lines for the previous season because they had been in the military. On of the tougher cards, that I'm on the lookout for, is Senators catcher Mickey Grasso, who was captured at the Battle of Kasserine Pass in 1943. He spent the rest of the war as a POW, and it contributed to his early death at the age of 55 in 1975.
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Signed 1953 Topps set: 264/274 (96.35 %)
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