What did the mid-twentieth century smell like? Probably cigarettes. The locomotive and the Lucky Strike were twin emblems of mid-century mobility, each leaving their own haze in the air. Both would prove inseparable from the life of Snuffy Stirnweiss.
A follow up on the relative scarcity of the different variations in the 1949 Leaf set. I was able to get insights from someone who has extensive knowledge of the set: Dr. Jim Beckett.
I’m using data to estimate the relative print runs of the dozens of variations in the 1949 Leaf baseball checklist. It turns out some cards are up to 6 times harder to find than others.
I’m two years late in writing this. Brian Kappel’s writing brings readers up to speed on the ’49 Leaf baseball card set and pushes them to explore the next chapter of this set’s story.
They’re 1949, not 1948, but it doesn’t matter. You’re about to start worrying about your Ken Griffey, Jr. rookie.
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.
A short nickname for a short career. This is the second in a series of profiles of the nicknames appearing in the 1949 Leaf baseball card checklist.
The first in a series of 98 explorations into how seemingly every player depicted in the ’49 Leaf Baseball set earned their nicknames. Before the advent of Rapper’s Delight, Hippity Hop carried a decidedly baseball flavored meaning.
