Thanks, Lou and Clyde.
I love that '53 Bowman. The '53 Color set ranks right up there with the T206 set as my favorites of all-time. I don't need a bunch of information. Just show me baseball players in their old time uniforms, and in those wonderful old stadiums.
John Thorn just put up a gallery of long gone stadiums, some wonderful shots of Ebbets Field, the Polo Grounds, the Baker Bowl (which was pretty much responsible for Chuck Klein's Hall of Fame induction. Think a pre-war version of Coors Field. If you sneezed, and hit the ball in the direction of right field, you had a home run. Straightaway right field was 280 feet, right-center was 300 feet.)
Klein was a lifetime .354 hitter at home, and a .286 hitter on the road. And those numbers were wider before he was traded from the Phillies. In 2,599 at bats at the Baker Bowl, he was a career .395 hitter. LOL.
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