Hey, if I'm going to show them all eventually, I have to show this one. This is the first team card from the 1956 Topps set that I have displayed in this series, and it suffers from the same issue that other team cards from the '50s and '60s suffer from -- you can't recognize anyone! At least during the '50s, Topps would run a handy identifying key across the bottom, although sometimes distinguishing who is in which row is rather tough. Another issue with this particular card is the IDs aren't from left to right -- like with IDs with 99 percent of photos -- but right to left. How do I know this? Well, unfortunately, there were only a handful of African-American major leaguers during the '50s, so when I'm desperate to identify someone out of the mass of similar, blurry Caucasians, I look for the darker skin. Willie Mays is seated third from right in the front row. Go down to the identification key and Mays is the third guy mentioned in the fron...
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