Obak is a card set that I should like. It's a tribute to an old, old vintage set. It's filled with baseball history. These are all good things. But I just can't get behind it. I think the major reason is the look of the set. Some of those old-timey sets were ugly in a primitive sort of way. Primitive is cool sometimes. Other times it's just plain primitive. I like my sets to pretty themselves up a little bit. The other reason is there just doesn't seem to be a lot of Dodger connections in Obak. I've seen a couple. But mostly what I've seen are Braves and Cal Ripken. Jason Heyward seems to be in every pack. I'm not going to collect a set that's full of Braves. Why would I do that? Still, I finally decided to nab a single pack of Obak the other day just to see what it was all about and to test my theory that there was a Heyward in every pack. Here it is: Ban Johnson. He founded the American League as a "clean" alternative to the...
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