Baseball card hall of fame voting has begun

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

"Goodnight Sibbi Sisti wherever you are ..."

The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book was the first baseball card book I ever saw. My uncle got me a copy in 1973 and I read it until it fell apart. It jumpstarted my interest in older cards. It is still a great read because it is about the cards, not the hobby, not the money, the cards.

"In 1955, there were 77,263,127 male American human beings. And every one of them in his heart of hearts would have given two arms, a leg and his collection of Davy Crockett iron-ons to be Teddy Ballgame."

It is still one of my all-time favorite cards; when I got my first one around 1977 I was ecstatic because it was in the book.