Charlie Brown, the lovable comic-strip loser, was fond of saying, "I never know what's going on." Charlie Brown, no surprise, was a baseball card collector. It's a hobby, I've found, in which you will never truly know what's going on. Even if you've been collecting for decades, even if you follow all the release dates and the online news, even if you're part of forums or blog communities or deal cards out of a shop, you will always come across something that you've never seen before. And isn't it great? The above card appeared in one of two back-to-back packages I received from Max from Starting Nine . "OK, it's Jackie Robinson on the 1961 Topps design," I said to myself. "This makes no sense at all." A few other Jackie Robinson cards came out of the package and they weren't any more logical. Jackie Robinson on the 1953 Bowman design, with a written notation on it. Jackie Robinson on the 1950 ...
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