What was the salvation of the Prewar card hobby

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02-11-2025, 03:35 PM

JollyElm

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A bit incidental, as I don't collect pre-war cards, but like the Topps sets mentioned which piqued the curiosity of our young minds by featuring those all-time greats subsets, what got me interested in long ago players from the pre-war days (plus the 40s and 50s and such) were the (remember these?) Scholastic Book Fairs at my elementary school.

Mom would give us a few bucks and demand we get "REAL" books and "only one or two" sports books. Through those types of baseball encyclopedias, I started learning about Pie (ha!) Traynor, Rabbit Maranville, Hornsby, Mathewson, etc.

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