1949 Leaf Collecting

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.

How do you solve a puzzle when you don’t even know what it looks like?

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.