Well, I shipped off an email to Bob Lemke about the Koufax postcard. I am hoping he'll be able to pinpoint its origins, although I'm sure he gets requests like this constantly. Meanwhile, I received another package recently that caused me to run toward my Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards (yes, run , I like to keep in shape). The cards came from Matthew Glidden at Number 5 Type Collection . He was holding an Easter Card Hunt Giveaway, based on the numbers on the back of the cards (too cool), and I was a winnah! Weeeeeee! One of the cards I received was the item you see before you. You may think it's merely a picture from a really old newspaper glued to some ancient piece of cardboard, and you wouldn't be far from the truth. But it's more than that. The card is a 1948 R346 Blue Tint of former Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Bruce Edwards, the guy who was kind of forced to the background (and to the outfield) by Roy Campanella. The SCBC says that the R346 cards wer...
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