Baseball card hall of fame voting has begun

[Chris-Counts]

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 ..."

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

"Goodnight Sibbi Sisti wherever you are ..."

The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book was the first baseball card book I ever saw. My uncle got me a copy in 1973 and I read it until it fell apart. It jumpstarted my interest in older cards. It is still a great read because it is about the cards, not the hobby, not the money, the cards.

"In 1955, there were 77,263,127 male American human beings. And every one of them in his heart of hearts would have given two arms, a leg and his collection of Davy Crockett iron-ons to be Teddy Ballgame."

It is still one of my all-time favorite cards; when I got my first one around 1977 I was ecstatic because it was in the book.

[G1911]

Teddy Ballgame has a lot of good-looking cards, but the 1955 is my favorite by a country mile. Perfect poses

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

Teddy Ballgame has a lot of good-looking cards, but the 1955 is my favorite by a country mile. Perfect poses

If you follow design theory at all, triangular composition is one of the most effective ways of presenting an image and this card has it. it conveys depth and balance. Your eye is drawn up and in towards the top center of the card. The 1954 #250, which is my second favorite card of him, is not as effective a composition because your eye is not drawn to a specific vanishing point:



it is more of an "11": two parallel tracks of vision. Now, the 1954 Wilsons Franks card that Topps made is a similar but more visually effective card because the single image draws your eye towards a single point: