The Way We Were ......

[clydepepper]

Very Nice 'Personalities' on those cards, Frank.

While I appreciate a good 'conversationalists' as well as the next guy, I'll always have a preference for the 'purdy' ones .

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

Very Nice 'Personalities' on those cards, Frank.

While I appreciate a good 'conversationalists' as well as the next guy, I'll always have a preference for the 'purdy' ones .

Jack Daniels or moonshine?

[CW]

If cards could talk, this set would probably have some of the best stories.

Nice post, Frank.

[t206fix]

Wow, those pages make the cards pop!

[tschock]

Great set, Frank!
I did notice that you had the rare #175 and #186 variations. The ones with the wrong front/back combination.

[Tao_Moko]

Really cool Frank. I am 41 so I missed the post WWII golden years of my youth, but I did grow up working for trade in a shop buried in the heart of a historic district(when I wasn't working on the farm). We had Native American artifacts, vinyl records, cards of all sorts and random antiques. It was one of the best educational experiences of my life learning from the characters that came through those doors. We had a 1920's cash register and an old bank safe. It was still a time when people talked about baseball and searched through boxes of commons that I had spent hundreds of hours sorting for them to complete sets a few cards at a time. A 1957 sleeveless Ted Kluszewski, Luis Aparicio and All-Star cards of Herb Score were gems found in those boxes. No plastic encasing any of them. I picked at dry rotted rubber bands from thousands of 1950's cards and often times bought, sold and traded with their original collectors. Anyway, thanks for drumming up some fond memories and helping me remember that baseball cards used to be about the game/sport and relationship to the players.

[Bigdaddy]

Frank, those cards have character. And as Helen Keller said "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet."