It seems to me that the Baseball Card Hall of Fame should be about the best cards, not the best players or most valuable cards. As for Ozark Ike's '52, I would put it in the first class of inductees. Is there a stranger card ever? I love it, and the book that inspired it, which suggests the balls are attached to the bat with postage stamp hinges, and the sign he is giving is an order for cinnamon doughnuts. "Goodnight Sibbi Sisti wherever you are ..."
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