My Top 10 Reason I like '50s BB Cards.... Care to add?

[Butch7999]

14. They feel like baseball cards, not like paper-thin glossy bits of ephemera that all seem like bonus inserts from a pack of real cards
15. They smell like baseball cards, the scent of the stick of awful gum still lingering on well-kept examples
16. Better typography -- easily legible bold lettering in the backside text, not microscopic 4-point fonts

and we'll say "hear hear" to 4 and 13 above -- frank, simple portraits and the occasional unembellished action shot,
not a psychedelic miasma of image-distorting swirls and swooshes and artificial colours

[John1941]

The Yankees ruled the world.

[ALR-bishop]

The Topps v Bowman card war from 51 to 55 was epic

[mortimer brewster]

Nothing excites me more than the moldy smell of a finely aged baseball card, especially from my favorite year 1957.

[John1941]

Originally Posted by mortimer brewster

Nothing excites me more than the moldy smell of a finely aged baseball card, especially from my favorite year 1957.

I like that. "Finely aged" captures it well.

The designs are great, the players are interesting, the cards are usually affordable - what's not to love?

[skooter]

I can't explain it, but at 79 years old, I can still look at a 1954 Bowman and taste the gum!

[cannonballsun]

I liked the gum. Am I the only one ?

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by John1941

The Yankees ruled the world.

+1!

Everyone who bashes them is ate-up jealous.