Welcome to Net54, Mel. No place like it. First packs I bought were 1957 Topps. We lived in the suburbs of NYC and went to a lot of Yankee games. It was a thrill to watch the players depicted on my cards do their thing on the field and I'd also hustle autographs from them outside the clubhouse after the game. Didn't have the prescience to have my cards signed, had 'em sign my scorecard instead. Baseball cards, scorecards, Superman comics, and my coonskin cap, none survived the ruthless domestic engineering of my mother. When I took up vintage card collecting around 2000 the very first thing I did was put together a 1957 set. Worked backward through time from there.
A 1957 game-used cap worn (and autographed) by Moose Skowron along with other memorabilia. On a team full of HoFers and mega-stars Moose was my favorite. Go figure.
