I'm having buyer's remorse over my last card show trip. It's not that I don't like the cards I acquired. They're all still wonderful. It's just that I can't believe I went to one of just three card shows that I get to go to each year and didn't purchase a '56 Topps -- which was at the top of my TO DO LIST. I had promised to show two '56 cards this month to make up for none last month. But I was only going to do that if I had acquired two key '56 cards at the show. That didn't happen. But I'm showing a '56 anyway. It's one I acquired long ago, and it's another New York Giant. That's my punishment for striking out last weekend. At least there is no way Gail Harris is retiring that runner in the picture. I've got that going for me. Harris was a victim of circumstance during his five-year major league career. A power-hitting first baseman for the Giants and the Tigers, he won starting jobs, but never held onto...
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