I learned about T cards from Frank Slocum's book, which my Dad had and we used to look at together. When I was ~9 or so, my Dad got me one for Christmas, this thin Livingston with a Sweet Cap red back. It was probably $8 or so, which at the time we considered a lot for a single baseball card. We had a lot of fun together learning about the players of different periods, picking up new type cards and slowly rebuilding the 60's/70's sets he had built as a child. 1 tobacco card became 2, and 2 became 3, and now I'm at ~25,000 tobacco cards according to my inventory sheets. Decades later, I still show him all my new tobacco cards as we squint at factory numbers.
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