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Al C.risafulliNo, you wouldn't love them because of the abuse, you'd love them because the manufacturers hate slabs.
These are SUPER thick. Thickest cards I've ever seen, thicker than cabinet cards. If you stick one in a toploader, it bows out the middle. You've got to keep them raw, they don't really even sit right in binder pages.
As far as real, in-period NL cards go, I only have one, a Ray Brown from the Carmelo Deportivo set (Ryan Christoff could tell you more about these in thirty seconds than I could tell you over the course of the rest of my life), issued in the late 40s, very thin stock, quite cool.
-Al