This set included much more demographic data than previous baseball cards, including some real oddities like eye and hair color. Based solely on this information, which name in the checklist can claim the total of “most average ballplayer?”
Faye Throneberry and I grew up in entirely different worlds. I never knew high school could be optional.
Another budget high number joins the 1952 Topps set building project. There is some blank space on the back for collectors to consider.
I would not have voted for Mike Garcia to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, but I absolutely would want him to at least be in the conversation when ballots are printed. Time for an argument.
I’ve never seen the movie Fargo, but I have seen a guy in a wood chipper. After that alarming note, I feel I have some explaining to do.
1952 Topps is overflowing with catchers, even if they didn’t stay in one place very long.
While baseball continued to be played on the field during World War II, the trading cards defining the era were extinguished by a sudden, total collapse of the supply chain.
Johnny Schmitz threw an entire decade with the Cubs and is portrayed as a Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher in the 1952 Topps baseball card checklist, yet he will always be a Washington Senator in my mind.
