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I missed out on the 1947 Tip Top Bread Kell, which I believe had been languishing in Clean Sweep's for sale portion of the catalogue for quite some time, and eventually ending up selling for about what the sell price was, if I recall correctly. Tough card, and that one in VG-Ex+ had pretty good eye appeal.

Did win the 1953 Canadian Exhibits Williams, however, which I was very pleased to get, since I am a big-time Teddy Ballgame fan, and that card to me represents his return to baseball (37 games, 91 AB, 13HR's !!! and a .407 BA!!!!) in 1953, returning to play in August at age 35 with no spring training. In his book, My Turn at Bat, Ted modestly attributes that amazing performance to the pitchers being tired, having been through about 2/3's of a season, while he was fresh (yeah right--fresh from being a jet fighter pilot, crash landing one of his planes when the landing gear wouldn't function in flames, and suffering not too much earlier from pneumonia!).

Highest regards,

Larry